Stories Quotes · Page 200

Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.

— Zainab Salbi

If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative.

— Peter Morgan

I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.

— Regina Spektor

Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.

— John Connolly

I like to make money; I like to have nice things. But I love to act; I love to tell stories.

— Shemar Moore

Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.

— Paula Fox

I think the writer makes a good story good or a good story bad. The writer has a great deal of responsibility.

— Tom Robinson

I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to…

— Umberto Eco

Evolution isn't just a take-it-or-leave-it story about where we came from. It's an epic at the centre of life itself. It tells…

— Kenneth R. Miller

“I don't see her anymore. We don't even go through the motions. Ozren had been right about one thing: some stories just…

— Geraldine Brooks

In almost all my work, I try to re-invent Christian images and stories and themes. You'd be amazed by the letters I…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Stories helped me unite parts of my existence that might otherwise have seemed irrevocably split by geography and time. And stories helped…

— Mohsin Hamid

I tell people to write the stories that you're afraid to talk about, the stories you wish you'd forget, because those have…

— Sandra Cisneros

There are no war stories. I ended up a bombardier, but I never got overseas. And it wasn't because I was playing…

— Bobby Thomson

I now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long.…

— J. Cole

There are so many people I would love to meet and say thank you for posting their videos, because hearing their stories…

— Troye Sivan

The story we hear over and over again is: Boy in science class, very nice to the girl, says, "Please come to…

— Kirsten Gillibrand

One of the most common words in the invalidating, self-blaming stories we believe about ourselves or our situations is the word "should."…

— William Hudson O'Hanlon

Habit hath so vast a prevalence over the human mind that there is scarce anything too strange or too strong to be…

— Henry Fielding

More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation…

— George Saunders

The mere existence of 'Buffy' proves the declinists wrong about one thing: Hollywood commercialism can produce great art. Complex and evolving characters.…

— Virginia Postrel

After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of…

— David Cameron

I am in communication with almost everybody I've done a story about. I have a fantasy that if I ever strike it…

— Joshuah Bearman

God gave music the power to carry his light into the darkness. That’s a mighty privilege. It means intentionally telling stories and…

— Andrew Peterson

I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France.

— Alex Ferguson

A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.

— Marcus Sedgwick

I love the idea of 3D, but it's completely superfluous to most stories.

— Cary Fukunaga

Most films these days are men's stories. Women are for add-on romance. That's very hard.

— Uma Thurman

Moral of the story: try to get things right, figure out what's going wrong with the scenario, and don't give up.

— Cody Lundin

There's so much more to tell about Africa than the usual stories about war, famine and disease.

— Komla Dumor

I think storytelling is all about children. We human beings love to hear stories being told - and it first happens when…

— David Chase

Your first obligation as a writer is to tell the truth and to tell a good story.

— Lena Waithe

Sing your song Dance your dance Tell your story I will Listen and remember

— Utah Phillips

Bedtime stories were definitely a big part of my life because I was just so excited my father was talking to me.

— Adam Sandler

I’m not a religious person; I would call myself an atheist. I don’t have a good story behind it, I’m just reasonable.

— Anthony Jeselnik

It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.

— Erle Stanley Gardner

It's all about one thing: creative problem-solving to get the story out.

— Robert Greenberg

I'm aware, as I get older, there are less and less stories that really pertain to me and who I am and…

— Marianne Elliott

There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are.

— Samantha Bee

He knew he couldn't tell stories, that he always included extraneous details & tangents that interested only him.

— John Green