Stories Quotes · Page 146

Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.

— Jackie Evancho

Whether or not this story has a happy ending depends, of course, on who is reading it. Whether you are a wolf…

— Kelly Link

I'm a warrior, I went into jail for the drama. I'm the story of the terrorist cell of Osama

— Vinnie Paz

I guess the biggest challenge to doing any kind of animation voice work is that you only have your voice to tell…

— Kevin Conroy

At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound.

— Dennis Covington

Every story starts with an idea, but it is the characters that move this idea forward.

— Michael Scott

As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

The most intoxicating thing about being an actor is to surrender to a story that you never would have come up with.

— Brit Marling

I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's going to get edited. I think that…

— Amy Sedaris

The story goes on in the sense that at a most basic level, the United States ignored, that is violated, the United…

— John Burroughs

I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell my friend,…

— Nina Bawden

If the story's there for it, if there's a reason for it, then I'm all for it. But if you throw in…

— CM Punk

The truth about our own modest contribution might immobilize us: much easier then, to tell ourselves a story about how much we…

— David Whyte

Inspired by words you have to create images to tell the story, while it's much more difficult to find your own images…

— Peter Lindbergh

Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has…

— Carlos Ghosn

Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic…

— Ida Tarbell

There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. 'The Saturday Evening Post' and 'Collier's'…

— Tom Wolfe

There are a million ideas in a world of stories. Humans are storytelling animals. Everything's a story, everyone's got stories, we're perceiving…

— Richard Linklater

A bran' new book is a beautiful thing, all promise and fresh pages, the neatly squared spine, the brisk sense of a…

— Lewis Buzbee

What was interesting to me was how they actually went to 9/11 and they chose that as part of his back story…

— Brian Wayne Peterson

Each poet probably has his or her own cupboard of magnets. For some, it is cars; for others, works of art, or…

— Jane Hirshfield

Amaryllis in Blueberry is a rich, evocative story about an unusual family that will sweep readers away to another place and time.…

— Susan Wiggs

I do not mean to be the slightest bit critical of TV newspeople, who do a superb job, considering that they operate…

— Dave Barry

Whenever I meet people for the first time, I assume that they have a great story to tell and that it's my…

— Sarah Ferguson

Our story is a 'once upon a time', but it's not a 'happy ever after'.

— Rupert Sanders

I've seen 'Fried Green Tomatoes' too many times. I love life stories told in flashback.

— Liam James

A witty illustration or an apt story will accomplish more than columns of argument.

— Chauncey Depew

History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.

— Sara Sheridan

I want to tell stories, I don't really try to get boxed in by a specific genre.

— Spike Lee

I think in a way, what it is to be human is to transcend our boundaries. That is the human story.

— Jason Silva

So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different

— Rohinton Mistry

These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost.

— Chuck Palahniuk

What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.

— Anne Carson

I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.

— Anonymous

“We are not only the tellers of our stories, we are the stories themselves.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

There are some stories that can be told in two hours and some in 20 minutes.

— Karthik Subbaraj

I always had an awful lot going on in my head, always telling myself stories, very vivid imagination.

— Kate Thompson

A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create…

— Michael Morpurgo

“We all have stories, and sometimes no matter the subject, we just need to share them.”

— Alexandria Rhodes