Stories Quotes · Page 188

Until the missing story of ourselves is told, nothing besides told can suffice us: we shall go on quietly craving it.

— Laura Riding

Stories that are real, that create you, rather than be created by you, are powerful.

— Amy Hardie

The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold.

— James Lafferty

I got so into moisturizing, my skin started overproducing oil. That's my story. There's a lot to talk about, for sure.

— June Diane Raphael

In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political.

— Cate Blanchett

At the core of investigative journalism is exactly the same thing that drives a page-turning thriller: telling a great story.

— Hank Phillippi Ryan

So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.

— Todd Solondz

Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story.

— Antonio Damasio

I'm a documentary filmmaker, so often I'm in the position of talking to people who are sharing stories that are critically important…

— Kristi Jacobson

People inspire me. Everyone is such an individual and has unique stories. I'm a voyeur. I eavesdrop. Sometimes I ask questions. And…

— Ellen Hopkins

I don't even know if Stephenie [Meyer] could tell you why she was so fixated on [Twilight] very, very contained story about…

— Robert Pattinson

If you work on network TV, they want to pick your casts, dictate your story and how your show works. It just…

— Judd Apatow

I’m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it…

— Tennessee Williams

Every single person has a story that will break your heart. And if you're paying attention, many people... have a story that…

— Brené Brown

Films are very influential, and I especially feel a responsibility to tell stories that have been pushed aside. Being able to shed…

— Q'orianka Kilcher

The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I feel lucky that Viceland wanted to make it, and I'm producing more than one film with LGBT characters and stories and…

— Ellen Page

Through centuries of struggle, Jews across the world have been witnesses not only against the crimes of men, but for faith in…

— George W. Bush

I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better…

— Ira Glass

There just isn’t a weak season of 'Breaking Bad.' There’s just superior work, a sprint toward evil that turned into a marathon.…

— Hank Stuever

When I got to college, the fake ID thing wasn't that important, since pretty much everyone could get away with drinking in…

— Tim Wise

I always say about that movie [ Brokeback mountain], which I think maybe over time is more understood, is that this is…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

Of course, I still saw Edward at school, because there wasn't anything Charlie [her dad] could do about that. And then, Edward…

— Stephenie Meyer

Some of the justifiable critiques has been by - been so successful in telling this story, you know, there's a danger of…

— Keith Devlin

This epic masterpiece tells the world changing story of Jesus and inspires us to love and live for others just as He…

— Santiago "Jimmy" Mellado

Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden.

— Bill James

That's how it is: some people are content to wait till you ask, while others jump right in with the whole story.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.

— Kate Forsyth

It never gets any easier. But I will get stronger. Because my story is far from over.

— Jabari Parker

Man doesnt have time to read story books but always fall for Stories.

— KM II

Body of earth, don't talk of earth Tell the story of pure mirrors The Creator has given you this splendor-- Why talk…

— Anonymous

Science is a collection of stories, linking characters worthy of notice.

— John Charles Polanyi

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.

— Beatrix Potter

I like stories that leave you wanting more, leave you wondering, but don't tell you everything.

— Viggo Mortensen

Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.

— Ray Bradbury

Tracing the beginnings of the interwoven stories of science can be arbitrary, as beginnings are so often lost in the mists of…

— Elizabeth Blackburn

Journalists don't retire, writers don't retire. I'm still hoping for that other big story. There's always one just around the corner.

— Phillip Knightley

I revise and revise and revise. I'm not even sure "revise" is the right word. I work a story almost to death…

— Peter Orner

I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.

— Lisa Scottoline