Stories Quotes · Page 105

I'm trying to tell a story, to entertain. I try and do something that might just take people's minds off their troubles.

— Bruce Nash

I used to love to make things - you couldn't drag me away for dinner because I was always writing a story…

— Fiona Apple

You and me are going to have so much fun, Rose. Picking out curtains, doing each other's hair, telling ghost stories…

— Richelle Mead

Education truly can change a person’s story, it gave me everything. Whatever happens, get an # education .

— Atiku Abubakar

It's very hard when you're doing a new play that you believe in, and you want to tell the story in the…

— Lily Rabe

I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing…

— Donald Miller

I look for a good story. Usually the best stories are the ones that are unbelievably true. 'Soul Surfer' is one of…

— Dennis Quaid

Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive

— Chris Cleave

Normally when I'm sent a script I'll read it through to see how it hangs as a story and then I'll go…

— Colm Meaney

At some point in the journey of being in it for yourself, you realize you need other people. Any good frontier story,…

— Jonathan E. Steinberg

It's people stories that make good reading. I don't feel like I'm a sportswriter. I feel like I'm a guy who writes…

— Rick Reilly

Be serious. Life hurts. Reflect what hurts. I don't mean that you can't also be funny, or have fun, but at the…

— John Irving

You can't rewind war. It spools on, and on, and on, looping and jumping, distorted and cracked with age, and the stories…

— Alexandra Fuller

I don't try to show off technology in my work. The technology is a means to tell stories, so I think conversations…

— Marco Tempest

I keep telling this story - different people, different places, different times - but always you, always me, always this story, because…

— Jeanette Winterson

Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as…

— Erica Jong

Our Pavlovian response to movies has gotten to its lowest point ever. You look at a lot of movies that are successful…

— David Fincher

The argument that the literal story of Genesis can qualify as science collapses on three major grounds: the creationists' need to invoke…

— Stephen Jay Gould

You can put the camera in places where you may not necessarily be able to put it there if I don't do…

— Tom Cruise

From personal experience, I completely agree that it is often easier to go for monotone sadness. When I was starting out, I…

— Anthony Marra

I have such an eclectic taste in music. Come to a backyard BBQ at my house, and I will run the gamut…

— Mike Vogel

The ways in which people are damaged are the ways in which they're strong. It's what makes people interesting - what they've…

— Sarah Polley

This is a column collection, or as one colleague called it, "history in real time," recounting my perspective on the highs and…

— Julianne Malveaux

Originally the structure was . . . a modern narrator who would appear intermittently and talk about his memories of his grandmother,…

— David Henry Hwang

Don't be sorry, Callie,' he says with a heavy-hearted sigh. 'You have your own sad story.

— Jessica Sorensen

- the only difference between a happy ending and a sad ending is where you decide the story ends.

— Andrew Kaufman

To laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and the story.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“My life is a story about who God is and what He does in a human heart.”

— Shauna Niequist

One of the things I loved about the musical was that you listened to the soundtrack and it told you the story.

— Tim Burton

Other religions are stories of man's search for God. The Bible is the story of God's search for man.

— Peter Kreeft

Precious things lost are transmutable. They refuse oblivion. They simply wait to be rendered into testimonies, into stories and songs.

— Andrew Lam

I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.

— Ben Macintyre

I have always thought that if you can give viewers the sense of being there a story can be very compelling.

— Chris Hegedus

I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently.

— Alan Moore

God invented mankind because he loved silly stories. Ralph Steadman I like being absurd.

— Jimmy Fallon

I enjoy heroines who grow and come into their own during the course of a story.

— Maggie Shayne

A feature film is an expansion of budget, stress, story, hours, time, workload, everything.

— Taika Waititi

“Give a hundred writers the same idea and you'll get a hundred different stories.”

— Joy Fielding

I have absolutely no interest in playing the young male lead around which a story happens.

— Taron Egerton

My career in Congress is a story of before Sandy Hook and after Sandy Hook.

— Chris Murphy