Stories Quotes · Page 206

I think feminism to me is the idea that women are equally important and their stories are equally important and just as…

— Megan Griffiths

I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story.

— Maggie Stiefvater

“We can't meaningfully proceed with healing, with restoration, without "re-story-ation".”

— Robin Wall Kimmerer

The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.

— Gregory David Roberts

Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change.

— Richard Branson

Whether it's Batman, Superman, Watchmen, the 300 story, we just make stuff that I want to see.

— Thomas Tull

Data are just summaries of thousands of stories - tell a few of those stories to help make the data meaningful.

— Dan Heath

I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up…

— Amy Hempel

“Even if we never read a second volume of a book, the characters continue to live on and on and on, and…

— Cat Winters

I remember the horror story that I told myself over and over again. I'm totally alone in my body. I'm totally alone…

— Sarah Silverman

We describe [Paper Girls] as Stand By Me meets Terminator.It's a story about nostalgia and childhood, but with an action-packed, sci-fi bent.

— Brian K. Vaughan

I ended up reading comics and just started drawing at a very young age. By high school, I was putting together longer…

— Tim Fish

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying…

— Henry Rollins

When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because…

— Jane Campion

It was easy to believe, between lessons on Shakespeare and Dickens and Austen, that all of the great stories had already been…

— Ally Carter

Just the same as I mix each track to connect them together to build a story, it's the same with the message,…

— Robert Hood

I think the reason why we got into such idiocy in investment management is best illustrated by a story that I tell…

— Charlie Munger

In his brilliant new book Pankaj Mishra reverses the long gaze of the West upon the East, showing modern history as it…

— Orhan Pamuk

If I stand there, appreciating the world around me as full of amazing sounds and the possibility of new ones, I think…

— Bobby McFerrin

We are opinionated society. We're very happy to spout forth our own views; we're not good about listening. We have to listen…

— Karen Armstrong

I made a very bad mistake; I miscounted these scraps of information on the record as 92, and in continual homage to…

— Peter Greenaway

I really wanted to work with Luc Besson. I'm a big fan of his. Did you ever see 'The Professional.' It was…

— Morgan Freeman

When I'm teaching, I tell the story of this painting for two reasons. First of all, if you want a good solid…

— Milford Zornes

Towards orthodox religion, father's own attitude remained one of tolerance. He looked upon the New Testament as the noble story of a…

— Margaret Sanger

Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.

— Ai Weiwei

I was going to get the Carolyn Bessette story out of her one way or another.

— Michael Bergin

William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written.

— Kim Edwards

All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.

— Brian Aldiss

I think a sequel is a waste of money and time. I think movies should illuminate new stories.

— Francis Ford Coppola

I think a day in your life on which nothing bad happens may be a wonderful day, but it probably isn't going…

— Alice Mattison

The idea of starting with that Kanye [West] song is declarative. It says, "This is the kind of story we're telling."

— Akiva Goldsman

The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted.

— Carol Shields

I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland.

— Hannah Kent

“Real life is never so neat as the stories we choose to tell about it”

— Ken Dornstein

I'm a storyteller. I'm not like any other comic. I tell detailed stories - not made-up stuff, but true stories.

— Ron Shock

“Where do you think stories come from, E'lir Kvothe? Every tale has deep roots somewhere in the world.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

We create stories to define our existence. If we do not create the stories, we probably go mad.

— Shekhar Kapur

Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.

— Joss Whedon

I'm interested in telling the character's story, not my beliefs, political or otherwise.

— Sarah Paulson