Stories Quotes · Page 229

When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.

— Kevin Spacey

Action alone doesnt work in Germany - you need an emotional element to the story.

— Til Schweiger

Unless the story line carries the scenes, the scenes don't really mean anything.

— George Cukor

Any jokes I make I try to make sure it's on story and helps the characters and makes sense with the movie.

— Aziz Ansari

“...it's not the stories - it's the pain and the joy and the people who stay with you long after the stories…

— John Geddes

I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

We have bodies. We have personalities. We have histories, stories and experiences. But we are not those things - we are Spirit.

— Sonia Choquette

We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our…

— Mary McCarthy

We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given…

— C. S. Lewis

By actually taking Sleepy Hollow and the Rip Van Winkle story, and finding the spirit of what was great about both of…

— Alex Kurtzman

Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what…

— Donald E. Westlake

I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like…

— Devdutt Pattanaik

Every person I talk to has a story about how their smoke alarm went off or woke them up with a battery…

— Tony Fadell

It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at…

— Vanessa Kerry

This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but…

— Jacob M. Appel

The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them:…

— Elliott Abrams

Perhaps the easiest people to fall in love with are those about whom we know nothing. Romances are never as pure as…

— Alain de Botton

I tell personal stories associated with aspects of the theory, and I hope they are interesting and compelling. I don't feel you're…

— Bill Nye

Knot the tie and go to work, unknot the tie and go to sleep. I sleep. I dream. I wake. I sing.…

— Richard Siken

I wanted to deconstruct the puppet show. I wanted to turn it inside out and do stuff that you're not supposed to…

— Wayne White

The next time you lose heart and you can’t bear to experience what you’re feeling, you might recall this instruction: change the…

— Pema Chodron

Even if these stories are 3,000 years old, there's still so much about the characters, about the dilemmas, about their understanding of…

— Rick Riordan

I was also thinking about isolation on an evolutionary scale as well, like when you think of an island like Madagascar where…

— Colin Stetson

It's pretty easy to think of the idea of a story, and maybe even to write a scene or two, but understanding…

— Dennis Green

Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.

— Madeleine L'Engle

As an African-American actor, a lot of our stories haven't been told.

— Chadwick Boseman

Dig into almost every overnight success story and you’ll find about a decade’s worth of hard work and perseverance.

— Austin Kleon

"When in your life were you the most challenged?" I love to hear stories of adversity and how people overcome them.

— Graham Shiels

One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.

— Brit Marling

I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.

— Alan Ball

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

— Laurence J. Peter

When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.

— Gary Cherone

That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments.

— Stephen King

I wrote to explain my own life to myself, stories are the vessels I use to interpret the world to myself.

— Pat Conroy

A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.

— Isaac Babel

“These stories run like secret rivers through all the other stories of his life.”

— Téa Obreht

In the midst of overwhelming noise and distraction, the voice of story is calling us to remember our true selves.

— Christina Baldwin

This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I have always loved and continued to love Johnny Depp. Period. End of story.

— Jennifer Nettles

“and the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of ourselves and the world are all-powerful.”

— Michael Lister