Stories Quotes · Page 236

I'm a storyline. I'm the chosen one for negative stories and controversial things. If I worried about it all, I would go…

— Ndamukong Suh

I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans.

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

I'm interested in people's stories, so I decided to tell part of mine.

— Jeffrey Tambor

He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.

— Ian Mcewan

I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.

— Anonymous

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

— Jane Yolen

We are creatures of story, and the process of changing one mind or the whole world must begin with 'Once upon a…

— Jonathan Gottschall

The real story of Detroit [...] can be summed up in seven words. Private enterprise built it, government destroyed it.

— Peter Schiff

Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has…

— Bob Schieffer

I was always aware that Jack loved women not only for their bodies but for the stories that came into being as…

— Joyce Johnson

But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because…

— Jonathan Coe

I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives,…

— Neil Gaiman

I couldn't live without the genius of Stephen Sondheim, be it not just West Side Story,but Follies,Company,Sweeney Todd,Passion.You can go on and…

— Cornel West

One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a…

— Suzy Bogguss

Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories…

— Trudi Canavan

There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who…

— Lakhdar Brahimi

When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence.…

— Orson Scott Card

I look at the field, and I think about the boy who just made the touchdown. I think that these are the…

— Stephen Chbosky

Don't talk to me about appealing to the public. I am done with the public, for the present anyway. The public reads…

— J. P. Morgan

Louisiana taught me another level of humility. Everyone is so content, not socially content but spiritually. Everyone is happy with who they…

— Kofi Siriboe

You can't actually hire and fire people inside of an open source community. Which means that getting people to work together is…

— John Dickinson

..and I thought how liking a boy was just the same as believing you wanted to know a secret - everything was…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

Images are no longer what they used to be. They can't be trusted any more. We all know that. You know that.…

— Wim Wenders

Eleanor Roosevelt once said, ‘No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.’ With stories from her own life and data…

— Marjorie Scardino

I'll often dream about characters before I start writing their stories.

— Francine Rivers

“You thought that if you didn't tell the stories, the sky would fall on your head.”

— Edwidge Danticat

Obviously because of my personal connection to Mandela and having had his story as part of my childhood, I knew how awesome…

— Lenora Crichlow

I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.

— Mahatma Gandhi

For all mankind that unstained scroll unfurled, Where God might write anew the story of the World.

— Edward Everett Hale

It's not always to the benefit of the story to have it so preordained.

— Daniel Woodrell

Some films are aspirational. But there is room for stories which don't have a beginning or end.

— Soha Ali Khan

Often, I get the feeling that the story is really happening somewhere and all I'm doing is trying to work out the…

— Garth Nix

Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.

— Dorothy Dunnett

There's a story behind every person. There's a reason why they're the way they are. Think about that before you judge anyone.

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way…

— Ice T

I've always felt you unearth story, like you're on an archeological dig.

— Andrew Stanton

There's always stories about cute girls in the gym, I'm just not one of those people.

— Gigi Hadid

“Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.”

— Shannon L. Alder

It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student…have now been debunked.

— D. V. Ager

Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

— Walter Benjamin