Stories Quotes · Page 233

And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.

— John Steinbeck

Life begins at forty, but so does arthritis, and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same person.

— Sam Levenson

I love not being in a comfortable state, anyway. That makes for much more interesting storylines and an interesting story.

— Katheryn Winnick

Failure is just a tax on the way to success. It is inevitable but it is not the whole story.

— Michael Hyatt

I love sharing my stories and experiences with people and connecting to them on both a humorous and emotional level.

— Tori Spelling

All of comedy at some level is trial-and-error, whether it's a stand-up trying out jokes or a comedy show trying stories.

— Michael Schur

When you write the story of two happy lovers, let the story be set on the banks of Lake Como.

— Franz Liszt

When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me

— Ang Lee

As far as I'm concerned, an audience is an audience. Whether it's an audience in Hull or the National Theatre, that's who…

— Sylvester McCoy

'Generation Food' is a collaboration between myself and author/activist Raj Patel that will tell stories about efforts around the world to try…

— Steve James

This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible spiritual realities and truths greater than visible, material things in story…

— John Granger

It doesn't matter if a character is a lawyer, a cop or a geography teacher. If there's a story in there, where…

— Clive Standen

Film is so much about that intensity of focus that there always needs to be some tension and some forward motion. The…

— Lenny Abrahamson

Richard Stark writes a harsh and frightening story of criminal warfare and vengeance with economy, understatement and a deadly amoral objectivity-a remarkable…

— Anthony Boucher

To me, the Sherlock Holmes stories are about a great friendship. Without Watson, Holmes might well have burnt out on cocaine long…

— Jeremy Brett

'Love Story' is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends,…

— Taylor Swift

Once upon a time there was a woman who was just like all women. And she married a man who was just…

— Elizabeth Smart

Perhaps I can also add something about the rural setting of Remember You're a One-Ball! The countryside is a place - in…

— Quentin S. Crisp

If 'heartache' sounds exaggerated then surely you have never gone to your garden one rare morning in June to find that the…

— Ruth Stout

I say, as a singer grows older, his conception grows a little deeper, because he lives life and he understands what he…

— Sam Cooke

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at…

— Hermann Hesse

I disagree that we need to contemplate eliminating ourselves in order to move forward. Sure, I think a good dystopian story can…

— Annalee Newitz

That's what Hanukkah is about: trying to survive the darkness on the far-fetched hope there's still some life and light left in…

— Lawrence Kushner

“I've wandered through the real world, and written myself through the darkness of the streets inside me. I see people walking through…

— Markus Zusak

Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night.

— Carl Sandburg

I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.

— John Lewis

I seem to only write New York stories because it's the only thing that inspires or interests me.

— Jennifer Westfeldt

I think story-telling is innate in human beings, it's something that we've done since we scrawled across cave walls.

— Cameron Diaz

There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't…

— Gordon Allport

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

— Anonymous

This story, I predict, will grow to be worse than Watergate. The American people need to have the answers.

— Curt Weldon

I'll take any vampire fans I can get. Dracula isn't a serial killer story.

— Robert Greenblatt

“But a man is not forgotten, as long as there are two people left under the sky. One, to tell the story;…

— Diana Gabaldon

I think that my films are basically family stories, beyond the fact that they are global and have political and social commentary.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

“My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have to potential to be the comic stories…

— Nora Ephron

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

— Steven Bochco

When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional…

— Tayari Jones

I want to do film and TV. I want to make good stories. I want to write; I want to be more…

— Alia Shawkat

“Every Mind Breaker I met was a true person inside and out. My name is Hayden Laevary, and these are their stories...…

— Megan Duke

I just wanted to tell the story of a bunch of musicians who had never had their story told before. There's no…

— Michael Azerrad