Stories Quotes · Page 241

I had just wanted to be part of a story; I wanted to be a person who had a story to tell.

— Julie Schumacher

It was always hard to find stories that I felt were, in and of themselves, fresh enough and intriguing enough .

— Ron Howard

“Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page any more than they begin on the first page”

— Cornelia Funke

Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.

— Sherwood Smith

And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the same old…

— Paulo Coelho

You check off stories to make sure if they're true or if they're right.

— Sarah Bradford

Unless we tell stories about ourselves, which is all that theater is, we're in deep trouble.

— Alan Rickman

Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you male, but about the stories you tell.

— Seth Godin

As an older person, I do feel an obligation to tell the story about what was really happening in the fifties, sixties,…

— Grace Paley

Because I don’t work with an outline, writing a story is like crossing a stream, now I’m on this rock, now I’m…

— Ann Beattie

I have a very strong color theory, for instance, where in 'Powers,' green means powerless, and red means power.The story was all…

— Brian Michael Bendis

We all love to hear a good story. We save our stories in books. We save our books in libraries. Libraries are…

— Kathy Bates

I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies…

— Richard Russo

I don't have the energy or the mental security to get involved with all that. I think it's a good idea to…

— Jeremy Northam

Every zombie story is fundamentally about a breakdown of order, with the infrastructure intact. That infrastructure might be on fire, yes.

— Patton Oswalt

I did Popeye and Ronald Reagan and everybody was saying things like "yeah he's a cute little kid" but I started, little…

— Gabriel Iglesias

It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a…

— Peter Ackroyd

You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely…

— Rachel Cusk

[Shahrazad] had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of by gone men and…

— Richard Francis Burton

I am not much interested in discovering new territories to photograph. Instead, what I wish my pictures could do is lessen the…

— Mark Klett

I wasn't into Tolkien at school really. But the story is timeless, the themes that it touches on are contained in cultures…

— Billy Boyd

This war [in Syria] is going to support Al-Qaeda and the same people that killed Americans in the 11th of September. The…

— Bashar al-Assad

“Cutting my roots and leaving my home and family when I was 18 years old forced me to build my home in…

— Charlotte Eriksson

...the history of early-medieval Arabia is nearly all legend. Like Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, and other founders of patriarchal religions, Mohammed lacks real…

— Barbara G. Walker

When shooting a story about someone, their hands should always be on your list to shoot.

— Joe McNally

I'm of the people in the bar and the people in my stories. They are my tribe.

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

— Amanda Burton

It seems that two of the most basic forms of comedy are jokes and stories. And, of course, they are not mutually…

— Demetri Martin

Just as with the quartet, each part of a painting is telling a different story.

— Guido Molinari

There's always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.

— Barbara Kingsolver

What I really want to do is produce. There isn’t much patience with a slow developing story line anymore.

— Sydney Pollack

The Story of Solomon is the only way I know how to explain. And then, in smaller letters: Forgive me.

— Lauren Oliver

I seldom get into the mood of the story. It's acting. I go in, I act, I quit. I don't take anything…

— Morgan Freeman

If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.

— Joyce Maynard

I was not a natural. . . . This is the story of becoming . . . the Hard Way.

— Cressida Cowell

It's a different story because guess what, the kid is only 28 years old, 28. He's not his dad, not his grandpa.…

— Dennis Rodman

Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.

— China Mieville

I've always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell

— Sherilyn Fenn

It's hard to imagine, but we cant think of HIV/AIDS as being somebody else's story. It could be any of ours.

— Rihanna

Stories of a mythical angel paradise called an Angelopolis are like Peter Pan's Never Never Land.

— Danielle Trussoni