Stories Quotes · Page 222

The liquid metal battery story is more than an account of inventing technology. It's a blueprint for inventing inventors.

— Donald Sadoway

Some of the biggest hits have had simple stories narrated beautifully.

— Shriya Saran

“I edit my own stories to death. They eventually run and hide from me.”

— Jeanne Voelker

It's the same story with a few crucial additions; the most important one is you.

— Anonymous

I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.

— Charles Kuralt

I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to…

— Melanie Lynskey

Stories can be a jumping-off point to access the emotions and the sensations in the body.

— Tara Brach

I think any good singer needs to be a good actor. You have to be able to tell the story.

— Erica Schroeder

“Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That's what makes stories and characters captivating. Good spiritual writers share what…

— Donna Goddard

The biggest thing I worry about is the unsubstantiated story. You have to tell the people what you know -- and acknowledge…

— Lester Holt

Live free or die. Four words. Thirteen letters. Ridges, bumps, swirls under my fingertips. Another story. We cling tightly to it, and…

— Lauren Oliver

Stories are amazing and powerful because they can resonate with people depending on their needs and experiences and speak truths we need…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Their story, yours, mine - it's what we all carry with us on this trip we take, and we owe it to…

— William Carlos Williams

I'm always excited to carry more and more weight and responsibility within a story. It's all about putting my time in and…

— Kevin Durand

People are not in good shape to where they have to question their own belief system because of a book or a…

— Tom Araya

I had an eye-opening experience in Baghdad at the end of 2004 and I thought that the story of these guys who…

— Mark Boal

I enjoy telling these stories that I ultimately think get a disservice on a lot of network television. I enjoy getting people…

— Morgan Spurlock

Deep breaths. I am taking deep breaths. Composure. Which, for me, means composing... Maybe this is my way of creating the illusion…

— David Levithan

The problem is once you've written the opening paragraph and worked out how the rest of the story will go in your…

— Colm Toibin

History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another realm; it is the story of us had we been born a…

— Stephen Fry

I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him…

— Janis Joplin

I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing…

— Francine Pascal

I don't beat at the details, but I do always keep in mind that anything that isn't A) moving the story forward…

— Jim Shepard

To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story…

— Edward Zwick

Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story.

— William Kennedy

A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.

— Walker Percy

All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.

— Neil Gaiman

That's a very real feeling - that I don't have a story to tell. I'm not a pure storyteller. I have a…

— Aaron Sorkin

Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story…

— Kurt Vonnegut

All of the best love stories have one thing in common, you have to go against the odds to get there.

— Anonymous

I love to make stories out of license plates on cars about the initials and the numbers - my mum used to…

— Olivia Newton-John

I never punched in anything when I recorded Imaginaryland. Where the title came from is a whole other story.

— Petra Haden

I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words.

— Elmore Leonard

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

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

— Antonio Damasio

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

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

— Bill James

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

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

— Hank Phillippi Ryan

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

— Cate Blanchett