People need to be inspired. They need to hear and believe a story. If you want them to be self-motivated, you need… — Michael J. Silverstein Copy Share Image
We are the only animals that tell stories to understand the world we live in. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you really listen to my music my music is more like stories than party records. I never made party records. — Ice T Copy Share Image
Listen up and I'll tell a story about an artist growing old. Some would try for fame and glory; others aren't so… — Daniel Johnston Copy Share Image
“Stories of absurd events in life get my creative juices flowing and have so far given birth to some of my best… — Simon Zingerman Copy Share Image
Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling. — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
It still might be a shock. To realize you are just one story walking among millions. — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
I've heard a lot of great success stories from writers - how so many of them struggled to get where they are… — Kevin Sampsell Copy Share Image
When one of my friends becomes a Christian, which happens about every 10 years because I am a sheep about sharing my… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
In a weird way, that's the beauty of being an actor. You get to live out things that you're afraid of, and… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
I always like story songs, Dolly Parton, Tom T. Hall, Mel Tillis, Red Stegall, when they'd do their story songs. I was… — Reba McEntire Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences,… — Dido Armstrong Copy Share Image
My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to… — Wynonna Judd Copy Share Image
Back in the day as a kid, I was really drawn to the Hulk because it just felt so human and was… — Cress Williams Copy Share Image
The psychological detective story in "Equus" made Peter Shaffer's name as a playwright. But it was his next play, "Amadeus," that cemented… — Bob Mondello Copy Share Image
Okay. how about that time when you smoked all that weed that you thought was laced with something? You fell into the… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
It's the arrangement of events which makes the stories. It's throwing away, compressing, underlining. Hindsight can give structure to anything, but you… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
“There’s a chasm between writing about yourself and writing about your personal life. A lot of young writers want to turn their… — Billy Marshall Stoneking Copy Share Image
I can't imagine being quite as lucky at any other time - I certainly never have been before. That goes right down… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
I like the story about me being pregnant. It was in some Australian magazine, on the front page! I was like, 'Wow,… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
My dad has a great expression. He always says, 'Tell me a fact and I'll learn, tell me the truth and I… — Steve Sabol Copy Share Image