Stories Quotes · Page 227

If future generations ask us what we are fighting for [in World War Two], we shall tell them the story of Lidice.

— Frank Knox

There is no off position on my visual switch, and I don't want one. I love, and always have, telling stories with…

— Bill Frakes

Many Christians understand the Bible to be a collection of stories without an overarching narrative.

— David Kim

It's easy for people to say stuff when they don't know the full story.

— Brittney Griner

As a kid I used to always write these stories... some of them were really cute; some of them were kind of…

— Phoebe Robinson

Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.

— Arundhati Roy

The story of journalism, on a day-to-day basis, is the story of the interaction of reporters and officials

— Michael Schudson

One of my favorite things in watching an actor is feeling, The story is safe in your hands. I can lean back…

— Alison Pill

“Henry: I usen't to need anyone, just to myself, stories, there was a great one about an old fellow called Bolton, I…

— Samuel Beckett

I can only answer the question ‘What am I to do?’ if I can answer the prior question ‘Of what story or…

— Alasdair MacIntyre

When we really start searching for the truth in stories, we can find it everywhere, not just in sincere confessions but in…

— Joanna Scott

I admire the ballad form most of all. Stories are irresistible. I've always had a passion for stories, the endings being of…

— David Massengill

I do think the story in Halloween 5 is a bit stupid, and there's a lot more blood. They're obviously going to…

— Donald Pleasence

It's the big question of every TV show, right, where you have these two people who it's clear the world wants to…

— Patrick J. Adams

Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen.…

— Kim Edwards

It's a lot more than clicking the shutter...it's the ideas, it's the visual voice, it's the telling the story, it's kind of…

— Ron Haviv

The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary mode of…

— David Abram

In addition, help your children learn self-discipline by such activities as learning to play a musical instrument or other demanding skill. I…

— Joe J. Christensen

I haven't written a novel or something that long, because I really am improvising all along and the story is growing new…

— George Saunders

Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice. We always have to ask ourselves whether the…

— Marie Colvin

Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage…

— Anne Lamott

If you want the film [La La Land ] to represent all things jazz, it does not. You'll be disappointed by that.…

— John Legend

Writing is for stories to be read, books to be published, poems to be recited, plays to be acted, songs to be…

— Frank Smith

A lot of the challenge with TV, as opposed to making movies, is that you have to leave room for the characters…

— Bruno Heller

A nation is bound not only by the real past, but the stories it tells itself: by what it remembers, and what…

— Colin Thubron

You hear stories like that of Canadians trying to get in, but when you go back home, you don't expect that.

— Caroline Dhavernas

It's great to express yourself and tell other people's stories and get into the minds of people who aren't like you.

— Antonia Thomas

My number one goal has always been to try to tell interesting, cohesive, long-term stories.

— Adam Page

“That's one of the things stories and books can do, they can make more than one time possible at once.”

— Ali Smith

The genres change but all of my stories feature ordinary people thrown into frightening, life-altering situations.

— Brian Pinkerton

I don't shy from controversy. I'm telling stories, and I'll tell whatever story seems like it wants to be told.

— Lauren Myracle

I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up.

— Jonathan Carroll

Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.

— James McBride

Romeo and Juliet *died*. I always liked that in a teen romance story.

— James Nicoll

The truth is all kinds of people exist everywhere. So let's tell their stories, too.

— Zazie Beetz

What I make isn't about me. It's about sharing my story; it's about someone being connected to what I'm saying.

— Miley Cyrus

“I try to avoid stories that end with...and he was never seen again.”

— Ken Poirot

My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.

— John Green

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.

— Salvatore Quasimodo

With Digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allow an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the…

— Kevin Rose