Stories Quotes · Page 175

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

— Chauncey Depew

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

— Liam James

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

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Rohinton Mistry

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

The rule of thumb for a director or producer - which prevents them from just sticking their names on everything - is…

— Harold Ramis

Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up…

— Bill Cosby

God seeks to influence humanity. This is at the heart of the Christmas story. It is the story of light coming into…

— Adam Hamilton

We all know what fun it can be to get right into a book and live there for a while, but falling…

— Cornelia Funke

One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter - who was a child at the time - asked…

— Louis L'Amour

I guess telling stories is an art. I never looked at it that way. I just started talking, and everyone started laughing.…

— Art Donovan

A lot of why we become actors is to fill a void that we have and a part of that void is…

— Eric Balfour

Everyone has a belief system in his or her mind, a story about the way they think the world actually is, even…

— Greg Koukl

It amazes me that you feel that each time you write a story you give away one of your dreams and you…

— Anais Nin

Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places…

— William Safire

When you just get fantasy stories that are about fairies or goblins, I just don't care. I'm never going to meet a…

— Dave McKean

Alternating the thoughtful task of writing with the mindless work of laundry or dish washing will give you the breaks you need…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I believe the first story I ever wrote was about a young girl who was terribly mistreated by her very cruel parents,…

— Victoria Laurie

It's always seemed to me that black people's grace has been with what they do with language. In Lorrain, Ohio, when I…

— Toni Morrison

Sometimes I am more interested in the richness of the material with all the stuff we've done which all tell a story…

— Larry Fessenden

There aren't a lot of female story artists, and it's baffling to me. There are a lot of kids in school that…

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

I have to sing it every night, I can't get up on stage if it's some bullshit story.

— Ryan Tedder

The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.

— James Russell Lowell

Your life is meant to be an epic story. How you think, perform and live today is part of that script.

— Robin Sharma

Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.

— Wally Lamb

Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings.

— Nancy Kress

When I start to write, I see my stories as a kind of movie. For instance, I ask myself, "What kind of…

— Julie Andrews

I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that…

— Donald Miller

The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won than by the stories it loves…

— Harold Clarke Goddard

My stories always have these twisted happy endings, and the boy always gets the girl.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.

— Sidney Sheldon

Our story is over, yes, but our journey isn't, because we'll always live on the edge until the day we die.

— J.A. Redmerski

I was raised by and have raised people who regard telling one story when two would do as a sign someone is…

— Linda Ellerbee

You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.

— John Lasseter

the announcement that you are going to tell a good story (and the chuckle that precedes it) is always a dangerous opening.

— Margot Asquith

I'm disappointed in television. I'm disappointed first of all in the audience that will not let stories be told in longer form.

— Robin Leach

I just got my work visa to shoot 'American Horror Story,' and my official status is 'alien with extraordinary abilities.'

— Lizzie Brochere