Stories Quotes · Page 191

Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

— Frederik Pohl

I currently live in the Plaza in New York and I love it - all that history, all those interesting stories.

— Tommy Hilfiger

We learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us.

— John P. Kotter

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

— Alan Rickman

We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.

— Anatole France

I am not a saint. I am, however, beginning to learn that I am a small character in a story that is…

— Lauren F. Winner

Some of my favorite movies are just movies that are just good stories, and aren't necessarily big budget movies or anything.

— Miranda Cosgrove

If you do not have an alert and curious interest in character and dramatic situation, if you have no visual imagination and…

— Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien

No library of American business achievement is complete without the story of Arthur G. Gaston. . . . Black Titan is a…

— Earl G. Graves, Sr

Africa's risks are mainly perceived and not real. Unfortunately for us in Africa we are not really very good at telling our…

— Aliko Dangote

That is my story, simply told. Please do not ask again. I have told you in order to issue a warning. I…

— Josephine Hart

Good stories flow like honey but bad stories stick in the craw [gullet]. What is a bad story? It's a story that…

— Arthur Christiansen

It is easier to compare concrete things in a fictional story with concrete things in real life than it is to compare…

— Peter Kreeft

[A] science fiction story is one which presupposes a technology, or an effect of technology, or a disturbance in the natural order,…

— Edmund Crispin

I have an affection for tangible objects, like books and pages, but people sure do seem to love their Kindles! We're definitely…

— Katherine Center

I love telling stories, I love for someone to see something, and go, "Oh, wow, I've never thought of it that way."…

— Tyler Hoechlin

Are you feeling helpless when you think about the dark roads of the future? Then read the biographies of the great men!…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I think there's a longer shortlist for that particular position and others.Highly qualified men and women who have come to Bedminster, come…

— Kellyanne Conway

Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Our stories arise from our hearts and our souls. In this sense, telling our stories becomes a sacred gesture, opening a clear…

— Susan Wittig Albert

Yet again, an ancient answer echoes across the centuries: Listen! Listen to stories! For what stories do, above all else, is hold…

— Ernest Kurtz

When a lot of athletes get done playing, they end up in some really tough positions. They have a hard time transitioning…

— Aaron Kampman

Stephanie Kallos's lovely and heartfelt first novel is a gift. A story of broken hearts and broken promises, it is also the…

— Sheri Holman

Those two volleys really could be the story of this match summed up at the end of it.

— Barry Davies

History belongs to she who holds the pen...If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told.

— Julianne Malveaux

A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.

— Errol Morris

[My mother told me] stories about Nat King Cole, and Miles Davis, and seeing pictures in later years with band leaders like…

— Jon Gordon

The time is just right to take risks and tell stories the way we want to tell them.

— Afia Nathaniel

“He is the monster they don’t know how to write stories about. You cannot trust him.” The”

— Pierce Brown

I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports.

— Rachel Griffiths

In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that.

— John Mellencamp

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do…

— Anonymous

I'm always drawn to stories that people don't know about, particularly when they're inside of a story that everyone knows about.

— Robert Redford

The American underground punk scene, though, is a story worth remembering.

— Ian MacKaye

I hope to be remembered as an author who defined and exemplified excellence in crafting the modern love story.

— Nicholas Sparks

There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.

— Rachel Griffiths

History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.

— Gretel Ehrlich

Once you told yourself a story enough times, it was so easy to keep on believing it.

— Scott Westerfeld