Stories Quotes · Page 3

My main goal is to tell a story.

— Stephen Sondheim

Do you like scary stories?

— Jacob Black

I wish I had a funny story.

— Leslie Easterbrook

Every woman has a story.

— Tyra Banks

I always like to tell a story.

— Adam Ant

Stories are equipment for living.

— Kenneth Burke

“Stories do not end.”

— anais nin

And in stories, endings matter.

— Atul Gawande

“God made man because He loves stories.”

— Elie Wiesel

I wanted to do films because I loved certain stories.

— Nushrat Bharucha

You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing.

— Alice Munro

“So long as there is a middle, there is a story.”

— Andrew Zurcher

The meaning of the story is the story.

— Flannery O'Connor

“Stories allow us to pretend that there is a cure for waiting.”

— Harold Schweizer

Coming-of-age stories, people roll their eyes.

— Dee Rees

I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.

— Barry Bonds

You know, people make up a lot of different stories about a lot of different things.

— Ray J

There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God's ability to free…

— Andy Stanley

We want to make sure the stories that show up in Path are both good stories and are a big part of…

— Dave Morin

Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.

— Ben Bova

Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.

— Stephen King

I think at a certain point actors need to start taking responsibility for the kinds of stories they want to tell.

— Jason Ritter

I've always loved adventure stories that involve brilliant kids using their brains to beat systems that seem unbeatable.

— Ben Mezrich

Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors and their toes are going to curl up.

— Jim Crace

As I work day after day, inspirations from different places go into the work. It's combination, but it's also comparative. I'll be…

— Ali Banisadr

I'd usually read the Bible a lot. Read little short Bible stories. And today, whenever I give speeches, I bring up a…

— Herschel Walker

I feel very strongly that a film isn't just a story, but the WAY that a story is told. It's why I…

— Larry Fessenden

In all my work, I try to tell great stories that people want to go to the movie theater to watch, or…

— Jon M. Chu

'Freaks and Geeks' was my favorite show when it was on, by a wide measure. And that's the show I wanted to…

— Rob Thomas

The larger-than-life thing is definitely what I'm after. I've always drawn dark stories. Occasionally, I'll try a perfect hero, but it's a…

— Frank Miller

I like stories that exist both in the naturalistic world and in our imaginative lives, films are so immersive in that sense,…

— Dave McKean

I think my love is storytelling. No matter what it is, it's storytelling. And so whatever the medium is, what's right for…

— Neil Strauss

I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of…

— Wendell Berry

It is so appropriate to color hope yellow, like the sun we seldom saw. And as I begin to copy from the…

— Anonymous

Waves of hands, hesitations at street corners, someone dropping a cigarette into the gutter-all are stories. But which is the true story?…

— Virginia Woolf

[The establishment] will allow the great Trojan horse - and I don't want people looking back in a hundred years and 200…

— Donald Trump

News is like the tilefish which appears in great schools off the Atlantic Coast some years and then vanishes, no one knows…

— A. J. Liebling

What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they…

— Carson McCullers

“Stories come in all different kinds." Hester scooted closer, clearly enjoying the subject at hand. "There's tales, which are light and fluffy.…

— Jonathan Auxier

For Christianity is a fighting religion. It thinks God has made the world- that space and time, heat and cold, and all…

— C. S. Lewis