Stories Quotes · Page 180

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

— Steven Bochco

“My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have to potential to be the comic stories…

— Nora Ephron

I think that my films are basically family stories, beyond the fact that they are global and have political and social commentary.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

“But a man is not forgotten, as long as there are two people left under the sky. One, to tell the story;…

— Diana Gabaldon

There have been many times when we have not run stories because we cannot get it verified.

— Mary Hart

I just wanted to tell the story of a bunch of musicians who had never had their story told before. There's no…

— Michael Azerrad

“Every Mind Breaker I met was a true person inside and out. My name is Hayden Laevary, and these are their stories...…

— Megan Duke

When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional…

— Tayari Jones

We [with Les Charles] started talking about hotel stories, and we found that a lot of the action was happening in the…

— Amy Poehler

Ani told them all...telling more than needed telling, the stories clarifying and unifying themselves in her mind as she let them spill…

— Shannon Hale

“A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. The story should never be made up of improbable incidents; there should…

— Aristotle

Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on.…

— Bob Kane

The forms of the short, written poem as they have been developed in English over the past few centuries can be usefully…

— Robert Scholes

As a child, I'd always liked cowboys and Indians stories where there were two layers - gruesome in the foreground but funny…

— Anthony Browne

I watch people throw aluminum cans in the trash, and I think of all the stories I've heard about the over-mining of…

— Dar Williams

No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale of lovers that did not seem to me as new…

— Eleanor Farjeon

Have endless patterns and repetitions accompanying your thoughtlessness, as if to say let go of that other more linear story, with its…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Some of you may know my story: How for nineteen years, I worked as a manager for a tire plant in Alabama.…

— Lilly Ledbetter

In all the dictatorships, there's such a non-understanding of what human beings are. I mean, if you believe in the Bible, you…

— Marjane Satrapi

Great storytellers in the past would go to an unknown land and return to tell the stories they've found. Those were also…

— Robert Davi

We Irish prefer embroideries to plain cloth. To us Irish, memory is a canvas--stretched, primed, and ready for painting on. We love…

— Frank Delaney

Science fiction fans are the smartest fans in television. They just are. They're just so smart, and they know so much detail…

— Azita Ghanizada

You hear these horrible stories about the FBI just doing all these nasty things to people. And you know what? In my…

— Hasan M. Elahi

Own one idea. Complete it. Map the current model of purchase and usage. Change how it is done so at least some…

— Michael J. Silverstein

I want to do film and TV. I want to make good stories. I want to write; I want to be more…

— Alia Shawkat

There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't…

— Gordon Allport

I'll take any vampire fans I can get. Dracula isn't a serial killer story.

— Robert Greenblatt

This story, I predict, will grow to be worse than Watergate. The American people need to have the answers.

— Curt Weldon

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

— Anonymous

When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me

— Ang Lee

I think story-telling is innate in human beings, it's something that we've done since we scrawled across cave walls.

— Cameron Diaz

I seem to only write New York stories because it's the only thing that inspires or interests me.

— Jennifer Westfeldt

I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.

— John Lewis

Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night.

— Carl Sandburg

I love sharing my stories and experiences with people and connecting to them on both a humorous and emotional level.

— Tori Spelling

Failure is just a tax on the way to success. It is inevitable but it is not the whole story.

— Michael Hyatt

I love not being in a comfortable state, anyway. That makes for much more interesting storylines and an interesting story.

— Katheryn Winnick

When you write the story of two happy lovers, let the story be set on the banks of Lake Como.

— Franz Liszt

All of comedy at some level is trial-and-error, whether it's a stand-up trying out jokes or a comedy show trying stories.

— Michael Schur

Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.

— Patrick Ness