Stories Quotes · Page 232

I was born at six months, and I weighed 900 grams [less than two pounds]. I have a very heroic birth story.

— Etgar Keret

“I am not here to compete in the war of words, I am here to nurture the future of stories.”

— Jason J. Black

Everybody has different stories about where I came from. Nobody really knows.

— Mitch Horowitz

Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.

— Steve Buscemi

If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.

— Horace Mann

Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give.

— Randy Alcorn

I have great family and good friends; the stories I told became popular, and people all over the world bought them.

— Maeve Binchy

So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.

— Anonymous

You know, I think Marco Rubio would be a spectacular candidate for vice president. I think he would energize the country. I…

— Mario Diaz-Balart

I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story…

— Laura Hillenbrand

Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers. This is…

— Catherynne M. Valente

I'm sitting in the bus station, minding my own business, reading 'Ta-Da!' magazine; a magazine by and for gay magicians, but that's…

— Dave Attell

I wish I didn't have ever to sign my long name on the cover of a book, and I wish I could…

— Margaret Wise Brown

What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're…

— Alexandra Fuller

I feel like I barely survived Django (Unchained) emotionally - the violence, hearing the N-word every day. It cost me a lot…

— Kerry Washington

Jesus was short on sermons, long on conversations; short on answers, long on questions; short on abstraction and propositions, long on stories…

— Brian D. McLaren

I love different sorts of people, their stories, all the different facets, that make them, them. This is entwined with how I…

— Gemma Cairney

We [me and friends] like to have surprising stories, but the dynamic and the friendship is the same. When you go out…

— Adam DeVine

The audience has spoken, they want stories. They're dying for them. They're rooting for us to give them the right thing and…

— Kevin Spacey

Carrying a small notebook with you always, in your pocket or purse, along with a reliable ballpoint pen will enable you to…

— Lee Wyndham

Animation is a fascinating area from an acting point of view because it's not really like anything else because you are only…

— David Tennant

I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be…

— Jacki Weaver

Fuzzy logic will produce a computer that will even seem to have a personality. It will seem to have a character. It…

— Owsley Stanley

And I like a good horror story as much as the next person so long as they kill off some men too…

— Meg Cabot

“This story, with the magic and the fire swords and the crouching woman and the planet-sized ship—it was happening right now.”

— Griffin McElroy

I look for the character to be something interesting, the script to have a good story and be original, and a director…

— Josh Hartnett

It's important to remember the Gospel is a story; not a set of bullet points.

— Timothy Keller

...stories that rise from deep suffering can provide the most potent remedies for past, present, and even future ills.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives.

— Oliver Sacks

He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.

— Holly Black

I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

— Trudi Canavan

Practically every day, there is a story in the newspapers about a new breakthrough drug on Parkinson's.

— Mort Kondracke

The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.

— Wes Moore

I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love…

— Brett Ratner

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of…

— James Gleick

“Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.”

— Napz Cherub Pellazo

Let me by the child in that story and declare that the Emperor is naked-or that America is culturally bankrupt.

— Ayn Rand

Dear doctor, you must not only let the patient tells his story, but you should also try to understand it.

— William C. Brown

I always loved the verve and vivacity of pulp and I kind of merged it with my own interest in family stories.

— Daniel Woodrell

It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story will develop.

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf