Stories Quotes · Page 231

My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.

— Helen Keller

We’d turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we’d survive to talk…

— Chuck Palahniuk

My life is kinda like a story that if I told you about it, you probably wouldn't believe. It would seem like…

— Anonymous

If you have half a story and you don't know the rest, you use what you have to pry the rest out…

— Hunter S. Thompson

My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.

— Laura Riding

You just have to go with a good story and a script that you like and people that you like to work…

— Thomas Jane

Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.

— John Berger

I was 21, when I heard the story that inspired this [thriller Allied], and I wasn't even a screenwriter then.

— Steven Knight

I want to live in Paris for a couple of years. I'm dying to do the Josephine Baker story. I really want…

— Diana Ross

You don't always want to be using the music in a way to express ideas inherent that are on the screen. You…

— Howard Shore

I think it is harder to write a story that appeals to the intellect. But, when you tie onto one, you can…

— Stephen King

The future of cinema and communications is all about collaboration and the decentralized control of storytelling. We're all part of the story;…

— Adrian Grenier

The word of God steadies me. He says your trials and tribulations make you who you are. So you can see my…

— Evander Holyfield

I think there's something in common with the OSS 117 movies. The big difference is there's no irony in this one. It's…

— Michel Hazanavicius

As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be…

— J. Michael Straczynski

If you're older you want to tell stories about the pool of human life and living and to communicate, not only to…

— Nick Nolte

The God-honest truth is that Jeff and I just do what we do. You have no control. We didn't have control last…

— J.H. Wyman

Something may have happened before, and yet this thing that happened just after may be so important that you don't even know…

— Antonio Damasio

When you're directing you're kind of interested in the movie and the story and the characters. I just sort of prefer the…

— Dolph Lundgren

Recognize that whether you are worthy or not is all a made-up 'story'...Nothing has meaning except for the meaning we give it...There's…

— T. Harv Eker

They call them the haunted shores, these stretches of Devonshire and Cornwall and Ireland which rear up against the westward ocean. Mists…

— Dodie Smith

“Because at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter whether the story’s true or not. What matters is the care that’s…

— Rachel Cohn & David Levithan

I think that actually the rhythmic nature of picture books and of young reader story books is a way to help kids…

— Josh Prince

Well I'm Superman, just not action. I'm kind of looking for something with a lot less action and more talking and listening.…

— Brandon Routh

I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first.

— Grace Paley

“We testify of what we have experienced and witnessed. May our testimony inspired others to share their story.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

What’s really important is storytelling. None of it matters if it doesn’t support the story.

— Wally Pfister

Id like to be in anything that tells a good story and has an interesting character.

— John Boyega

The camera is an extension of yourself... Your story treatment may be subjective, but it is important to remain objective as to…

— Cornell Capa

Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.

— John Irving

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which…

— Graham Greene

I want my music to be able to tell a story about what I've experienced and what I think my fans will…

— Cody Simpson

if i can only recount the story of my life right out of my body flames will grow

— Rumi

I’ve seen the nations rise and fall. I’ve heard their stories, heard them all, but love’s the only engine of survival.

— Leonard Cohen

I love ghost stories, I love to read them, and I love the idea of being haunted.

— Micah Perks

It's always been my hope that I would write a story that would inspire and would connect with people in a way…

— Sue Monk Kidd

All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

— Francis Ford Coppola

I used to make up stories about my father. I would go to the movies and look for a character who looked…

— Danny Aiello

I have a lot of good stories for talk shows about the conditions in which I worked.

— Gillian Jacobs