Stories Quotes · Page 159

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

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

— Koren Zailckas

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 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

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

— Richard Branson

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

— William Friedkin

A ghost story of which the scene is laid in the twelfth or thirteenth century may succeed in being romantic or poetical:…

— M. R. James

Readers re-create any story to suit their own needs. They re-clothe the story in their own shirts. Put simply: just as we…

— Jane Yolen

I don't belong to any school or clique or ghetto. I don't have any preconceived ideas. I'm trying to serve a story…

— Xavier Dolan

Man, coaching is a hard job, and it requires a lot of time... I hear stories from coaches who tell me that…

— Joe Montana

I always wanted to tell stories. From the time I had 20 cents or a quarter in my pocket, I could peddle…

— Patrick Lussier

Kerry Cohen's powerful, transfixing story will be familiar to many women, most of whom won't want to admit it. In this heartfelt…

— Janice Erlbaum

Frankly, I'm mainly telling the story to myself. Thinking about audience is too daunting, and worst case, invites you to homogenize, to…

— Anna Quindlen

I really said, 'Okay, this is just the right job for me. This is really what I need to be doing: telling…

— Christopher Lennertz

The audience has spoken, they want stories. They're dying for them. They're rooting for us to give them the right thing and…

— Kevin Spacey

We [me and friends] like to have surprising stories, but the dynamic and the friendship is the same. When you go out…

— Adam DeVine

I love different sorts of people, their stories, all the different facets, that make them, them. This is entwined with how I…

— Gemma Cairney

Well I'm Superman, just not action. I'm kind of looking for something with a lot less action and more talking and listening.…

— Brandon Routh

I think that actually the rhythmic nature of picture books and of young reader story books is a way to help kids…

— Josh Prince

“Because at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter whether the story’s true or not. What matters is the care that’s…

— Rachel Cohn & David Levithan

I look at it [Moonlight] and young Alex Hibbert who plays the young Chiron gives such a beautiful performance. By the time…

— Andre Holland

I should say that, in addition to my tree - love (it was originally called The Tree), it arose from my own…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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

— Tobias Wolff

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

— Elizabeth Lowell

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

Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ.

— Timothy Radcliffe

The Bible is one story that unfolds in one book, by one author, about one subject. A story that moves from promise…

— Alistair Begg

I was a young cat, and I was very fast, but I wasn't telling no kind of story.

— Roy Eldridge

“I could write stories about my dreams that would make a person’s skin peel from their bones.”

— Kimberly Raiser

The problem with most love stories in my opinion is that they're too simplistic.

— Steven Shainberg

We kind of have to rewrite our own stories and our own ways of being free.

— Morgan Parker

The most important thing is the story. Not the script, but the story.

— Richard D. Zanuck

I think I would have been a hopeless spy. I love telling stories and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.

— Ben Macintyre

Writing about racism requires a directness that writing a love story does not.

— Vivek Shraya

It's always a good starting point to tell a story that has many layers.

— Pawel Pawlikowski

My life is kinda like a story that if I told you about it, you probably wouldn't believe. It would seem like…

— Anonymous