Stories Quotes · Page 117

How many times can you put together 26 different stories without running out?

— Rene Auberjonois

If somebody has a chance to put my food in their mouth, that tells the story.

— Emeril Lagasse

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

— Mitch Horowitz

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

— Alan Rickman

The story of humans is the story of ideas that shine light into dark corners.

— Jill Tarter

Stories are the things that allow us to persuade each other that we're human.

— Neil Gaiman

Love stories that are too simple don't deserve to have films made about them.

— Patrice Leconte

But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people.

— Charles Barkley

Whenever people say a coincidence in a novel is implausible, I think, Do I have a story for you.

— Alexander Chee

...Our stories are drive by who we are and what we do, and not by the events that happens to us.

— Holly Smale

I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.

— Jackie Evancho

I didn't want to be pigeonholed as an artist. I wanted to be able to have other stories to tell.

— Malcolm D. Lee

It's an old story, really: seduced and corrupted, in the end, by an obsessive love for the text.

— Jack O'Connell

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

— Ulysses S. Grant

I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.

— Rachel Griffiths

A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned.

— Richard Denney

“Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And one of our consuming diversions as we age is to…

— Lionel Shriver

Linda Brewer's example is inspiring, colorful and potentially very funny. Her journey also exists firmly in the Heartland tradition of American success…

— David Duchovny

A story communicates fear, hope, and anxiety, and because we can feel it, we get the moral not just as a concept,…

— Marshall Ganz

Big hooks have always been a part of American movie-making. So, to make a movie where you're just driving story through the…

— Steve Pink

Anyway, stories bring us together to find common ground, to find our way through life together, or just to entertain us, and…

— Dorothea Benton Frank

The stories in Get In Trouble confirm once again that Kelly Link is a modern virtuoso of the form-playful and subversive required…

— Jeff VanderMeer

Latin America wants to decriminalize at least marijuana (maybe more or course;) the US wants to maintain it. An interesting story. There…

— Noam Chomsky

Our jobs as artists is to make sure our art tells a real story and let people see themselves in these characters.…

— Lil Rel Howery

The film world is far more male-dominated. I mean, the numbers are staggering at the level of how many people on set…

— Emma Donoghue

*I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago... *So soon you will be in that part…

— Donald Miller

How could I have kept out this incredible fiction? That's when it all started for me. I was, and still am, a…

— Arjen Anthony Lucassen

A student researching into my work has actually traced the newspapers and magazines where I found theses images and has found out…

— Gerhard Richter

In other words Luke's story is historically impossible and internally inconsistent. He lied to fudge the fulfillment of Micah's prophesy and to…

— Richard Dawkins

There are no happy endings... There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories which are just part…

— Anonymous

They're always such alive females. And also, all those love stories - no man in Austen has ever fallen in love with…

— Anna Maxwell Martin

One day, I was running to the river. Along the way there was the most exquisite butterfly, a tiny little thing, on…

— Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

I was 4 and dictating stories into a tape recorder, and my mom typed them up.

— Shonda Rhimes

Somethings were meant to be and somethings were just meant to be good stories

— Alethea Kontis

When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories.

— Amanda Hocking

“The better you tell an old story, the more you are talking about right now.”

— John Crowley

To tell a strong story with real taste of an epic tragedy needs great actors.

— Luiz Bolognesi

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis

— Anish Kapoor

The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories.

— Chuck Palahniuk

The Cinderella story is wired for weirdness, and you can see it in this movie.

— Maria Tatar