Stories Quotes · Page 211

I think the story of 'Alice in Wonderland' in a way is a reminder that life is frightening, it can shift on…

— Michael Sheen

And remember, it's always her fault. That's your story and you're sticking to it.

— Sherry Argov

Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.

— Ram Dass

Frankly, I've got to admit that I'm not perfect and have made some mistakes as some of the colourful stories about me…

— Peter Slipper

Im nearly certain that Google accessed my Gmail account after I broke a major story about Google.

— Michael Arrington

We evolved to make sense of this nonlinear and unpredictable world with stories. These stories are often very powerful.

— Dominic Cummings

Well, you can't improvise story, which is a fact. If you could, the budget would be insane.

— Adam Pally

When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story.

— Hubert Laws

The value of a story isn't that it just has a narcotic effect. It's that it awakens something in you that makes…

— Will Smith

For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional…

— Tori Amos

An editor named Kerrie Hughes wanted me to write a short story that brought my fire-spider Smudge from my goblin books into…

— Jim C. Hines

I have been the subject of ridicule. People talk about me and they don't know me and this is an opportunity to…

— Anonymous

“We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are, and what our…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I think because "Dollhouse" was the first story that I put out. It was the first thing that people were able to…

— Melanie Martinez

I don't know. Only God knows where the story ends for me, but I know where the story begins. It's up to…

— Mary J. Blige

I don't know what this feather means, the story of it, but I know it means he was thinking of me. For…

— Khaled Hosseini

I'm not fighting with myself. Oh, my God. That's how I am. You know, the story of the hippo? The hippo comes…

— Marat Safin

When I started writing short stories, I thought I was writing a novel. I had like 60 or 70 pages. And what…

— Shane Carruth

I am far more of a loner than people would imagine. But I am the most gregarious and socially interactive loner you…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

In fact, I always assumed that most everything I read was true, to one degree or another. I couldn't articulate this fact…

— Kevin Keck

Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, pornography causes orgasms, and the…

— William T. Vollmann

Since a good part of my life has been wasted dealing with fools just like them, it's not worry I feel but…

— Álvaro Mutis

Fans are always asking me where I get my ideas from. The answer is that I'm very curious, and I get inspiration…

— Tess Gerritsen

That's just me wanting that supernatural tool to tell a story and also not wanting to be restricted by reality, with how…

— Bryan Fuller

“Life is like a collection of short stories, full of twists and turns, and always striving towards a happy ending.”

— Kathy Keroson

What I tell people is be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don't have to live anybody…

— Stephen Curry

You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.

— Ian Mcewan

Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.

— John Darnielle

We are each in the middle of our own path. We do not know what will be at the end of our…

— Susan W. Tanner

The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.

— Vanna Bonta

All my life I've been interested in other people's stories. I wanted to know them, understand them, feel them.

— William J. Clinton

White people who are doing this work need to make their stories known to serve as guides for others.

— Beverly Daniel Tatum

Nothing is as important as a likable narrator. Nothing holds a story together better.

— Ethan Canin

If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will.

— David Christian

And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip music brrrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries.

— Anthony Burgess

Frankly, there isn't anyone you couldn't learn to love once you've heard their story.

— Andrew Stanton

I listened to a lot of stories when I was a kid. My mother told me stories, and I loved them.

— John D. Voelker

I don't think I've ever really pursued telling my story, but I think things come to you at the right time.

— Charisma Carpenter

There's no need for me to get married. I live with someone; we're happy; end of story.

— Simon Cowell

I'm not the go-to guy. Everybody is trying to tell their story and have different ways of telling it.

— Spike Lee