Stories Quotes · Page 167

“Stories of absurd events in life get my creative juices flowing and have so far given birth to some of my best…

— Simon Zingerman

Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.

— George R. R. Martin

As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.

— Jeff Bridges

Listen up and I'll tell a story about an artist growing old. Some would try for fame and glory; others aren't so…

— Daniel Johnston

A story, to me, has a particular sprite, like the angel of the spirit of that story - and it's my job…

— Philip Pullman

We are the only animals that tell stories to understand the world we live in.

— Salman Rushdie

People need to be inspired. They need to hear and believe a story. If you want them to be self-motivated, you need…

— Michael J. Silverstein

If you really listen to my music my music is more like stories than party records. I never made party records.

— Ice T

The Christian faith grew through story - not text. Only later did the stories become Scripture. While the Scripture must be held…

— Erwin McManus

I did one of the 'Amazing Stories.' That was the first time I got to play a character who was a dumb…

— Cindy Morgan

Foreign novels are less action-oriented. They have a different pace; they’re more reflective. They challenge us to look for the story, find…

— Stephanie Perkins

I am not an actor. Yes, every so often I appear on talk shows to promote something I've written, and I enjoy…

— Alan Zweibel

Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual…

— Kenneth Branagh

I'm glad that Jewish kids are taught about the Holocaust and other stories in our history, but I wonder if there are…

— Jill Soloway

All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it…

— Keira Knightley

“Stories enabled you to forget your life and your limits. They urged you to reach for a world that was never meant…

— Tiffany Truitt

I was also thinking about isolation on an evolutionary scale as well, like when you think of an island like Madagascar where…

— Colin Stetson

I think all writers are always collecting characters as we go along. Not just characters of course, we're collecting EVERYTHING. Bits and…

— Alexandra Sokoloff

Sometimes we adopt certain beliefs when we're children and use them automatically when we become adults, without ever checking them out against…

— Charlotte Sophia Kasl

The Dain Curse [Tom Fink] was a great job. I was in New York, and I was young - I think I'm…

— Brent Spiner

Because I have a heart for God I also have a heart for women. As I hear their stories, I realize so…

— Jill Briscoe

The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks.…

— Cheryl Strayed

I did a film when I was about 30; it's a coming of age story called 'Gas Food Lodging,' and I'm so…

— Robert Knepper

I've been thinking of a story from the Old Testament: Moses stood all day and all night with outstretched arms, praying to…

— Sophie Scholl

All stories teach us something, and promise us something, whether they're true or invented, legend or fact.

— Stewart O'Nan

I've lived enough of my life story to know this- Fate writes the book, but you make the movie.

— Robert Breault

Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy...

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

Good telling of human stories is the best way to keep the Internet and World Wide Web from becoming a waste vastland.

— Walter Isaacson

Good teaching is creating really interesting generalizations out of war stories.

— Derek Bok

I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.

— Paloma Faith

What kind of people we become depends crucially on the stories we are nurtured on.

— Chinweizu Ibekwe

I always describe writing a story as throwing bowling pins in the air and then catching them.

— George Saunders

Mortality is the most romantic story ever told. Just one chance to do everything you should. Then, magically, you move on.

— Lauren Kate

The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?

— Bernhard Schlink

There is a child in every man, and that's why larger-than-life stories which have a fairly tale component will work.

— Mahesh Bhatt

Flows that go against the grain with a story so compellin' I should mind The People's Court, snatch the mic from Doug…

— Tash

I'm more interested in writing about the personal stories of people. Sometimes I don't agree with them.

— Patterson Hood

There are a few really fantastic stories left, and that kind of gives you some inspiration to find even new ones.

— Malik Bendjelloul

I want to tell stories and make people feel good. That's when music is at its finest.

— Kelly Rowland

Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.

— Jean Little