Stories Quotes · Page 165

I am a curious person and, believe it or not, I really do like to sit back and listen to people's stories.

— Nina Blackwood

I chose to tell the story visually, so that anyone of any age, from any country, could understand it.

— Bill Watterson

The first season, 'Supernatural' was very anthology-like. It was like a scary story of the week that the brothers would solve.

— Robert Duncan McNeill

I would definitely not rule out doing television, in the future, because I think it's a great medium for telling stories.

— Chris Pratt

People will always tell stories. The publishing industry might vanish, but not stories.

— Aleksandar Hemon

“Would it have made a difference? This is the question we always ask after we have given up.”

— Thomas King

I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Fundamentally, Eva is just my life copied out onto film. I'm [still] alive, so the story hasn't finished.

— Hideaki Anno

'Tell to Win' reveals the key elements that tellers of purposeful stories utilize to engage their listeners and turn them into viral…

— Peter Guber

The characters are telling you the story. I’m not telling you the story, they’re going to do it. If I do it…

— George V. Higgins

As an artist, I am interested in telling stories that haven't been told before, stories that are going to affect people, and…

— Naomie Harris

I think that every show on television has its place. I think Married With Children or, I don't know, The Nanny... some…

— Peter Krause

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last,…

— Anonymous

I know this is a weird niche, but a lot of my female friends have these strange stories where there their dads…

— Casey Wilson

Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human…

— Robert McKee

The best stories in our culture have some sort of subversiveness - Mark Twain, 'Catcher in the Rye.' You provide kids with…

— Matt Groening

All you can do is put your story out there enough times and hope that a couple will understand that no matter…

— Lawrence Taylor

I remember [Patrick J. Adams] being in a particularly disillusioned place and really wanting your ambitions to be met with opportunity and…

— Zachary Quinto

I now want to tell three stories about advances in twentieth-century physics. A curious fact emerges in these tales: time and again…

— Steven Weinberg

We learnt a lot because we got in with real choreographers who tell you what they need from a song, because a…

— Eric Idle

I wanted to deconstruct the puppet show. I wanted to turn it inside out and do stuff that you're not supposed to…

— Wayne White

Knot the tie and go to work, unknot the tie and go to sleep. I sleep. I dream. I wake. I sing.…

— Richard Siken

The next time you lose heart and you can’t bear to experience what you’re feeling, you might recall this instruction: change the…

— Pema Chodron

I tell personal stories associated with aspects of the theory, and I hope they are interesting and compelling. I don't feel you're…

— Bill Nye

When you are telling your story, hold your own ink pen. Don't let anybody else tell your story.

— Tracy Martin

I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies.

— Ben Kingsley

Usually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I see the reports of Anson Hunter's death have been greatly exaggerated... and I trust so are his war stories.

— Richard Finney

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world. - Philip Pullman”

— Jessica Kelly

Religion, it must be understood, is not faith. Religion is the story of faith.

— Reza Aslan

It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different…

— Sarah Addison Allen

Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.

— Mason Cooley

What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?" "Stories. And they give me hope.

— Neil Gaiman

Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.

— Ashwin Sanghi

To me, country music tells a story about, and deals with, the way people live their lives and what they do.

— Randy Travis

When we get jealous, we tell stories to ourselves about other people. Jealousy makes you look for intensity rather than accuracy.

— Parul Sehgal

I think it is nice for people to appreciate a slow-burning, beautiful story that makes you feel good when it is over.

— Emily Blunt

If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?

— Jennifer Weiner

You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.

— Jane Hirshfield

People gave names to things so they could tell stories about them, goddam fairy tales about children who got out alive.

— Sam Lipsyte