Stories Quotes · Page 211

In the past stories have been what tethers us to the world and they've made us who we are.

— Mat McNerney

People are fascinated, for whatever reason, by human drama, and the idea that cameras are capturing ambient stories.

— Jonathan Nolan

I don't think it takes a brain surgeon to understand how to read a story.

— Uma Thurman

Living and breathing an authentic story is the best way to survive in a conversation-rich world.

— Seth Godin

It’s a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I think you have to be very careful with effects that they don't overpower the story with the visual element.

— Harrison Ford

I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in…

— David Levithan

I don't go to see movies to see plots. I'm not interested in puzzles like an Agatha Christie story.

— Ti West

Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story…

— Aaron Stanford

The characters in my stories, whether historical or fictional, usually prove to be a compilation of influences taken from differing sources, but…

— Thomas Steinbeck

and the truth was that most of Nash's friends weren't that bad. Their girlfriends were another story. Speaking of bloodthirsty hyenas...

— Rachel Vincent

Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as…

— John Green

But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats.…

— Terry Pratchett

I think we begin to lose the ability to read in the deepest, most interpretive ways because were not kind of calming…

— Nicholas G. Carr

Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will…

— Chinua Achebe

“And yet, wasn't the terrific thing about stories the fact that they joined readers together, that they made people realize they were…

— Adam Langer

The study of an idea is, of necessity, the story of many things. Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source.…

— Willy Ley

Cars are all jammed up all along the road and a light turns red and someone honks. In every one of those…

— Deb Caletti

I have really seen the best in people and I've absolutely seen the worst in people. And I'm happy to say that…

— Rob Zerban

She has that quality, does the Hudson, as I imagine all great rivers do: the deep, abiding sense that those activities what…

— Caleb Carr

My grandmother's grandparents were slaves. My grandmother Big Mama would tell me about the stories she heard as a child growing up…

— Michelle Singletary

Television and radio are what I call sequential media; they're not simultaneous media. With simultaneous media, you can scan your eye down…

— Harold Evans

In a story, for example, you'll start off with a character who is a little bit of a cartoon. That's not satisfying…

— George Saunders

I think about the question of perspective in reporting all the time, and since I spent 20 years of my career in…

— Jill Abramson

I felt that if others can overcome incredible challenges to be in shape, why would my story be any different?

— Maria Kang

I wanted to know as the director how the actors wanted to tell this story I wanted to know what they thought.

— Paul Bettany

“...but there are stories that cannot begin at their beginning, and perhaps this is one of them.”

— Félix J. Palma

In our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and…

— Juliet Stevenson

When I was 7 years old, I plagiarized, word for word, stories from science fiction magazines so my teachers would think I…

— James Altucher

The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Mellow doesn't always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life.

— Anne Hathaway

Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself?

— Ally Condie

I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.

— Eve Bunting

Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about…

— Diane Setterfield

I also want to do stories that I think are not brought to television that often that our community talks about.

— Ed Gordon

“God doesn’t put that much prep into something that is insignificant.”

— Shannon L. Alder

It occurred to me that everyone’s story matters to themselves, so the more I listened, the more she wanted to talk.

— Miranda July

It's the stories that make my heart beat faster ...those are the ones to write about

— David Henry Hwang

Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.

— Gautama Buddha

I wasn't sure how people were going to take to the stories I was telling and the things I wanted to sing…

— Jackson Harris