Stories Quotes · Page 112

Publicity is absolutely critical. A good PR story is infinitely more effective than a front page ad.

— Richard Branson

I didn't grow up with my dad, or around the whole legacy. I was post-Motown, so I'd always hear stories and wonder…

— Redfoo

Poignant, earthy, intensely human, Letters From A Stranger is a love story that is as unusual and courageous as its characters.

— Elizabeth Lowell

Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.

— Tobias Wolff

Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest

— William Friedkin

A child's own story is a dream, but a good story is a dream that is true for more than one child.

— Margaret Wise Brown

Let me be the child in the story and declare that the Emperor is naked — or that America is culturally bankrupt.

— Ayn Rand

I am very conscious of what I say and do when I go out because the media is quick to make that…

— Justin Guarini

The inhabitants of the other spots reason in like manner, of course, with the result that from early infancy the mind of…

— Emma Goldman

What is crucial is the provision of opportunities for telling all the diverse stories, for interpreting membership as well as ethnicity, for…

— Maxine Greene

Whenever I started writing music, it just naturally led itself there. As I started to tell my story, it's where my home…

— Jamie Lynn Spears

Today the challenge is not visuals, but to be able to tell a riveting emotional story, something that can reach deep down…

— Gabriel Campisi

My maternal granddad, Leonard, was full of amazing stories. He was an orphan, with 11 or 12 brothers and sisters, and he…

— Jamie Cullum

I would definitely like to continue playing Aquaman. Playing a superhero is a lot of fun. Creating these stories is a lot…

— Alan Ritchson

It was what became something of a pattern in the first couple of years of the Clinton White House and maybe even…

— Dee Dee Myers

Be strong and of good courage. You are truly royal spirit daughters of Almighty God. You are princesses, destined to become queens.…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

In creating the strange milieu in which your story takes place, you must first understand as well as you possibly can the…

— Orson Scott Card

[Facebook] is shaping a broader web. If you look back for the past five or seven years, the story about social networking…

— Mark Zuckerberg

The ultimate story of success: When a nobody, who has never once in his entire life known the feeling of being remembered…

— Criss Jami

I don't beat at the details, but I do always keep in mind that anything that isn't A) moving the story forward…

— Jim Shepard

To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story…

— Edward Zwick

I have been married to my wife, Paula, for 25 years. We have wonderful kids. Things are - it's been a really…

— George Saunders

Lawrence Hill, a cultural and spiritual descendant of West African griots, has used his vast storytelling talents to create an epic story…

— Afua Cooper

What happens to children and families today who sit around the television? They're watching made-up stories. It's not their experience and it's…

— Rita Mae Brown

Whether it's on top of a phone booth or a $200 million soundstage, it's about stories.

— Peter Gallagher

I try to be honest; I really do try not to exaggerate the story. I try to be accurate.

— Max Lucado

Can the foot soldier teach anything important about war, merely for having been there? I think not. He can tell war stories.

— Tim O'Brien

All of us in the Ball family in South Carolina, from the time we're children, hear stories about our ancestors, the slave…

— Edward Ball

Short stories are not maybe the biggest deal in our culture anymore.

— Anthony Doerr

The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.

— John Eldredge

I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.

— Koren Zailckas

I am filled suddenly with hope. I don't think I will ever die. We are looking for ghosts, but, I think, a…

— Tony Earley

When my nine goes buck, it will bust your head like a watermelon dropping 12 stories up.

— Ice Cube

There were so many stories around, it was almost inevitable some of them would turn out to be true.

— Nigel Evans

The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.

— Byron Katie

I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place…

— Isabel Allende

Some people just see the glory and they don't want to know about the story.

— Matt Damon

Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.

— John Berger

You just have to go with a good story and a script that you like and people that you like to work…

— Thomas Jane

My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.

— Laura Riding