Stories Quotes · Page 112

Every number has a name! Every name has a story! Every story matters to God!

— Perry Noble

That's more along what the story is, as opposed to me being onstage singing.

— Toby Keith

If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I'm happy.

— Brian K. Vaughan

“The patterns we perceive are determined by the stories we want to believe.”

— John Verndon

There's room for magic and inspiration. There's room to live a better story.

— Jamie Tworkowski

People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic.

— Seth

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

— Arthur C. Clarke

I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue.

— Steve Buscemi

I wrote a lot of poetry that was based on stories of the sea and I was really inspired by that.

— Ellie Goulding

I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing.

— Julia Leigh

I read my books out loud to myself because of the demands of the story and demands of language.

— Kate DiCamillo

I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.

— Jacqueline Woodson

That's the miracle of telling a story in film: You can express something inside someone's mind.

— Matthew Weiner

Mistruths are printed as fact, in some cases, and frequently only half of a story will be told.

— Michael J. Jackson

There is nobody so weak of invention that cannot make some little stories to villify his enemy.

— Joseph Addison

What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?" "Stories. And they give me hope.

— Neil Gaiman

There's a reason Tony Stark makes fun of 'Thor,' and mentions 'Shakespeare' in the park in 'The Avengers.' It's great to play…

— Joss Whedon

My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances…

— Frederick Buechner

A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes…

— Dorothy Fields

And all the trips you know you missed And all the lips you never kissed Cut through you like a knife. And…

— Harry Chapin

“For me the thing that signals a great story is what we might call its autonomy, the fact that it detaches itself…

— Julio Cortázar

You have to want to make a film for other reasons - to say something, to tell a story, to show somebody's…

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

I have heard so many stories of contractors, and I've met some, too, who worked for Donald Trump, produced the goods and…

— Hillary Clinton

I don't think we're getting the empathy, and identifying with the situations that many African Americans experience. That's the problem with how…

— Roger Ross Williams

I have a completely worthless degree: a BS in Photojournalism from Boston University (BU). With this degree, I suppose I could have…

— Peter Menzel

The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have…

— Philip Jose Farmer

The most basic definition of a story is 'Somebody wants something and something's in his way,' and I'm more likely to be…

— Mark Waid

The characters are born from repetition, from repeatedly thinking about them. I have their outline in my head. I become the character…

— Hayao Miyazaki

It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something ineluctably masculine…

— Robert Silverberg

[Peter Pan] has never broken his terrible habit of eavesdropping. So, maybe that wasn't the rustle of pages you heard while this…

— Geraldine McCaughrean

Frankenstein feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms. It appeals to something very…

— Kenneth Branagh

It's never been integral to the story that I take my clothes off. I've always had clauses in my contracts saying no…

— Sarah Jessica Parker

Because everything up to now is a story and everything after now is a story.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write.

— Wally Lamb

Behind each number is a person, a victim, whose individual story is ghastly.

— Alec Baldwin

A story comes to you; it isn't like you choose it. You have no real control.

— Mary Downing Hahn

We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

— Chris Cleave

In the information age, it's not just whose army wins, but whose story wins.

— Joseph Nye

He says every story has at least some truth in it, even if most are made up.

— Darren Shan

I've got stories untold & maps to unfold, but everyday I get where I'm going

— Debby Ryan