Story Quotes · Page 38

“luck plays a large role in every story of success;”

— Daniel Kahneman

We're all building our narratives in our heads.

— David Means

“Stories are a kind of theme park of mortality. Deadnyland.”

— James W. Blinn

The thing about stories is you have to pick the ones that last.

— Terry Pratchett

Don't have too much story for the time you have.

— Tom Rickman

Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories.

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Hadithi ya maisha yangu ni yangu. Wewe ni nani kusema hadithi yangu si ya kweli?”

— Enock Maregesi

When blame has been assigned, the story is over.

— Charles Baxter

The juxtaposition of words - the color, feeling, and sound of the words together - has as much to do with the…

— Chad Smith

I love illustrating for other writers because I am given stories I never would have thought of, and my work as an…

— Brian Selznick

To think in terms of what the effect of a story is going to be, as opposed to trying to discover its…

— David Milch

“My story was not the story of a girl's broken dreams: it was the story of a girl who couldn't be broken.”

— Heather Schuck

I told a story with the E Street Band that was bigger and better than I could have done on my own.

— Bruce Springsteen

It's been the story of my career. No matter what level I'm at, the more time I have on the court, the…

— Alex Caruso

I have never, ever, not once, met a writer who said he or she would never read a mystery or a story…

— Russell Smith

“People live inside the stories they tell themselves. Others see about you the things that you believe.”

— C.D. Bell

To preach is very boring, and nobody wants free advice. But if it's entertainment, then this changes. If you explain something to…

— Rajkumar Hirani

Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted…

— A.S.A. Harrison

When I was minister of sport in Brazil, I tried to bring in a law that would make the chairmen of clubs…

— Pele

That's what happens in feature docs. The more time you spend, the more nuance emerges, the more a story evolves - but…

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

Who would have thought that a story about a professor of phonetics would result in it being probably one of the great…

— Julie Andrews

Ah, the pleasure, the joy - a big news story that runs and runs, that is played down by some of our…

— Kamal Ahmed

I am 39. I am single. I am a black woman. I have too many advanced degrees. Many a news story tells…

— Roxane Gay

There have been days where I've had two writers' rooms or three writers' rooms going, and you walk back and forth. And…

— Noah Hawley

It's always a good starting point to tell a story that has many layers.

— Pawel Pawlikowski

If the human story in 'STM' is relatable, it will work.

— Rajiv Menon

“The episode related here is based on a true story.”

— Michael Crichton

The most important thing is the story. Not the script, but the story.

— Richard D. Zanuck

We all have a story. It's how you tell it that matters.

— Change Your Conversation

Good music tells a story that people relate to.

— Jen Lilley

“Let's change the world... one story at a time.”

— Lindsey Owens

My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name.

— Harry Mathews

There is no greater agony than carrying the burden of an untold story.

— Kanika Dhillon

When I start a story, I don't know where it's going.

— Stephen King

“During your struggle society is not a bunch of flowers, it is a bunch of cactus.”

— Amit Kalantri

'West Side Story' is one of the greatest theatrical experiences I've had.

— John Tiffany

Whether it's on top of a phone booth or a $200 million soundstage, it's about stories.

— Peter Gallagher

You try, as an actor, to wear a mask; you're serving a story.

— Mark Rylance

“the lost sense that we play out our lives as part of a greater story”

— David Whyte

“I am a loser in my own plot, but I might be the hero in someone else's plot.”

— Vann Chow