Stories Quotes · Page 114

If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.

— Brené Brown

This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I have always loved and continued to love Johnny Depp. Period. End of story.

— Jennifer Nettles

“and the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of ourselves and the world are all-powerful.”

— Michael Lister

In the midst of overwhelming noise and distraction, the voice of story is calling us to remember our true selves.

— Christina Baldwin

I wrote to explain my own life to myself, stories are the vessels I use to interpret the world to myself.

— Pat Conroy

A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.

— Isaac Babel

“These stories run like secret rivers through all the other stories of his life.”

— Téa Obreht

How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in…

— Virginia Woolf

Perhaps adding a line or two of dialogue to try to better capture an emotion. But I've found that if the story…

— Mary J. Miller

My clothes have a story. They have an identity. They have a character and a purpose. That's why they become classics. Because…

— Vivienne Westwood

I try to tell a story when I'm playing. I try to make an emotional connection when I'm playing versus before I…

— Kerry James Marshall

I'm a documentary filmmaker, so often I'm in the position of talking to people who are sharing stories that are critically important…

— Kristi Jacobson

I don't even know if Stephenie [Meyer] could tell you why she was so fixated on [Twilight] very, very contained story about…

— Robert Pattinson

People inspire me. Everyone is such an individual and has unique stories. I'm a voyeur. I eavesdrop. Sometimes I ask questions. And…

— Ellen Hopkins

All humans are storytellers with their own unique point of view. When we understand this, we no longer feel the need to…

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

It may be a blessing in disguise...Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about…

— Pat Robertson

My colleague Senator John Ensign of Nevada told me a story that epitomizes the selfishness of our culture: When I was a…

— Rick Santorum

But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else's story, though you will certainly be tempted to,…

— Marisha Pessl

I haven't written a novel or something that long, because I really am improvising all along and the story is growing new…

— George Saunders

In addition, help your children learn self-discipline by such activities as learning to play a musical instrument or other demanding skill. I…

— Joe J. Christensen

The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary mode of…

— David Abram

A lot of the challenge with TV, as opposed to making movies, is that you have to leave room for the characters…

— Bruno Heller

Writing is for stories to be read, books to be published, poems to be recited, plays to be acted, songs to be…

— Frank Smith

Every religion, every philosophy, every individual outlook on life tells a story of reality.

— Greg Koukl

In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters.

— Sidney Lumet

“This world isn’t nearly as chaotic as our minds. Maybe that is why we tell stories.”

— Mitali Meelan

I think we take the history we want to take in order to back up the stories we want to hear.

— Paul Kingsnorth

“The voices in my head wouldn't shut up, so I let them write their story.”

— Shandy L. Kurth

Never take a mulligan on a par 3. A "hole in three" is not a fun story to relive.

— Brian Weiss

British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.

— Lee Child

When I write a story, it's not like I'm thinking about what I'm doing

— Stephenie Meyer

Look, sports are sports. The scores are the scores and the stories are the stories.

— Michelle Beadle

Be mindful of clickbait - sensational stories designed to humiliate. Click with compassion.

— Monica Lewinsky

The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series.

— Neil Gaiman

I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.

— Tim O'Brien

In a place where everyone knew my story, it was nice to know there was a chapter that ONLY I HAD TO…

— Ally Carter

“I have a friend who likes to date younger women because their stories are shorter. Old men like us, our stories are…

— Jerry Uelsmann

We loved one another, man. I mean all those stories about the rift ... there was no question of a rift between…

— Dizzy Gillespie

In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do…

— Frederik Pohl