Stories Quotes · Page 178

You know, two people can say exactly the same words, saying the same story, and it would mean something entirely different.

— PJ Harvey

The only purpose of the visuals, in any film, is to serve the story.

— Don Hertzfeldt

Because here's the thing about a book: when you pick up a story, you put down your own.

— Holly Smale

The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.

— Aravind Adiga

“It isn't about knowing the most stories, child. It is about carrying the ones that are most important and passing them along.”

— Ishmael Beah

Use every customer point of contact to weave stories about who you are and what your brand stands for.

— Gary Vaynerchuk

I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own…

— Stephen Daldry

I don't want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie.

— Zedd

As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't…

— Jarvis Cocker

I've heard so many stories of Jared [Kushner] being groomed from a very young age - really, from from when he was…

— Jared Kushner

The very act of committing an experience to the page is necessarily an act of reduction, and regardless of craft or skill,…

— Bret Anthony Johnston

Perhaps we should all settle down and think about what's good in the world and what we want to do here. If…

— Ursula Goodenough

I see myself as a storyteller. So, when I read something, I see the story, and I see it on screen, in…

— Samuel L. Jackson

I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the…

— Pam Houston

I was the kind of kid who couldn't really stop making up stories during class. I didn't do very well academically because…

— Meg Cabot

It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people…

— Bille August

Since the last tour I have done a lot of extensive travel to Iraq, Kuwait, Siberia, South Korea and other places and…

— Henry Rollins

Writing is like wrestling; you are wrestling with ideas and with the story. There is a lot of energy required. At the…

— Chinua Achebe

The method of producing comics in Japan is very hectic, but it's also rewarding because it's possible to do both the story…

— Akira Toriyama

Summer has come with the loveliness of a mother Heat, not warmth, now pours onto my face, aging me, taking me closer…

— Anonymous

I explained to Amazon that I don't like outlining or projecting what something's going to be. I like to allow a story…

— Whit Stillman

The gifts of the Master are these: freedom, life, hope, new direction, transformation, and intimacy with God. If the cross was the…

— Steven James

Here I am in the garden laughing an old woman with heavy breasts and a nicely mapped face how did this happen…

— Grace Paley

If the audience gets everything, if they see the photography and notice that it is good, then the story goes out the…

— Frank Capra

When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.

— Eli Roth

Fairy tales read before bed tend to make me dream. They're all quite violent stories, as are my dreams.

— Glen Duncan

Each time there is a news story, sometimes that gives ideas to people who then turn into criminals.

— Nicolas Sarkozy

The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the…

— Eudora Welty

I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.

— Isabel Allende

A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together.

— Jane Smiley

Already when I was very young, I was a fabulador. I loved to give my own version of stories that everybody already…

— Pedro Almodovar

In order to tap into the power of dreaming, we must connect not only to the human story, but to all of…

— Alberto Villoldo

Eventually, I think cinematography for every culture is a way to explore different stories, different ways of also delivering a story.

— Violante Placido

I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Soul Mountain, the story of one man’s quest for inner peace and freedom.

— Gao Xingjian

From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way.

— Hayley Atwell

Over the years, confusing fragments, lost corners of stories, have a clearer meaning when seen in a new light, a different place.

— Michael Ondaatje

'Legend of the Seeker' - it has new and interesting creatures and magic, but it's the stories.

— Craig Horner

I think love is a great catalyst for many characters to further the story or their own growth.

— Keri Russell

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

— Wally Lamb