Stories Quotes · Page 237

I would definitely not rule out doing television, because I think it's a great medium for telling stories.

— Chris Pratt

I always had stories inside my head and one day I just decided to start writing them down. I didn't actually decide.

— Judy Blume

“Stories are about endings,’ he’d said. ‘They don’t mean anything unless they come to an end.”

— Paul Cornell

The story of Little Blue Riding Hood is true. Only the color has been changed to prevent an investigation.

— Stan Freberg

A woman tells a story with her clothes, but it's the shoe that carries her.

— Christian Louboutin

If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?

— Adrienne Rich

Sometimes ... it takes me an entire day to write a recipe, to communicate it correctly. It's really like writing a little…

— Julia Child

The more people talk about eating disorders, the more people get the real story about what they're like.

— Scarlett Pomers

Having done several of them and also loving other kinds of movies, I'm also tougher on suspense stories in terms of finding…

— Curtis Hanson

I think as long as the standard of quality, the story-telling, film-making, acting etc. etc. remains consistent, then you've got a good…

— Neil Marshall

It's hard to find really original, compelling works of fiction, for women especially. I find that these true life stories about these…

— Hilary Swank

I think that all stories - if you make movies about zombies and aliens - it has always to do with your…

— Marjane Satrapi

Whether we like it or not, life has a lot of drama and pain. But God is writing a great story. Are…

— Beth Moore

I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some…

— Dalai Lama

You are the untold story. You are the impassioned truth wanting to scream its existence, to be forever trapped by a strong…

— Henry Rollins

Take a brilliant, creative social scientist, without any respect for conventional wisdom and you get Ellen Langer. She is a fantastic storyteller,…

— Dan Ariely

The Big Bang, the formation of sars and planets, the origin and evolution of life on this planet, the advent of human…

— Ursula Goodenough

The stage, the screen, the novel, casual conversation, the street discussion, and too often the fireside intimacies are punctuated with blasphemy, to…

— Ezra Taft Benson

47 Ronin is a very special movie for me. Not only a Samurai thing. Not only a Hollywood fantasy. It has a…

— Hiroyuki Sanada

The Tiger Rising is, again, about a motherless child. His name is Rob Horton. He is dealing with the death of his…

— Kate DiCamillo

When we remember something, we're taking bits and pieces of experience - sometimes from different times and places - and bringing it…

— Elizabeth Loftus

But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are…

— Adam Johnson

We live in this irreparably broken world, and I don't wish to deny reality, but the amazing thing to me is not…

— John Green

I guess the reason that I'm a horror fan is that I think it gives people the opportunity to enjoy the feeling…

— Annie Parisse

It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor.

— Jerry Leiber

I've been a big fan of telling stories with young people that have a strong sense of reality.

— David Nutter

Don't let the old story repeat itself now. Arm yourself with all that's happened.

— Anne Rice

The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story…

— Melody Beattie

A story is the relationship that you develop between who you are, or who you potentially are, and the infinite world.

— Shekhar Kapur

I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to…

— Victoria Abril

I want to get up there and tell entertaining stories but that are also to a certain extent clean.

— Jon Heder

Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I tell my story, not because it is unique, but because it is not. It is the story of many girls.

— Malala Yousafzai

I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true [...].

— Richard Wright

The key to the future of the world, is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.

— Pete Seeger

I love stories - devising them, writing them, reading them, watching them, being a part of them.

— Neil Jackson

I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.

— Ann Patchett

I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories.

— Thomas Keller

In Chinese love stories the one who loves always starts by borrowing a book from the beloved.

— Anonymous

Sometimes I wake up and think I wish id never told the world my story but I know good comes from it

— Demi Lovato