Story Quotes · Page 54

History depends on who is telling the story.

— James O'Shaughnessy

Behind every smile there's a story; a comedy or a tragedy.

— Anonymous

“Fear of failure is fiction, face this fact and fear will fall.”

— Amit Kalantri

My father's immigrant story is a big part of who I am.

— Tom Suozzi

“you got a story to tell, and you are the only one who can tell it. Don't give up!”

— Neil Gaiman

Everyone's love story is going to be unique.

— Gabby Barrett

“He was a story at least, even if he never became anything else.”

— Nick Hornby

“Once you hear a story, it becomes part of you. It can't die.”

— Candace Fleming

It's funny: when I go to a school and speak, and when they hear the back story about me, they want to…

— Jay Asher

At the end of the day, storytelling is actually very simple in its origin as long as there are people who want…

— Kevin Spacey

“A story is a story, and one may glean from it what one likes. Good sense need not enter into it.”

— G. Willow Wilson

I'm interested in telling the character's story, not my beliefs, political or otherwise.

— Sarah Paulson

“Where do you think stories come from, E'lir Kvothe? Every tale has deep roots somewhere in the world.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

We create stories to define our existence. If we do not create the stories, we probably go mad.

— Shekhar Kapur

It's basically the story of my life. Trying to paint the prettiest picture I can with the colors I have.

— Caleb Plant

I can relate to historical characters or imaginary ones. It doesn't matter if a story takes place in the future or in…

— Eric Stoltz

A lot of new writers assume you have to know the where the story is going and that it flows out as…

— Patrick Rothfuss

You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a…

— Bill Bryson

“(...) every single person, has a story to tell. Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story. We might all think that…

— Cecelia Ahern

“We all spin stories. That's what we do. We want people to see certain things about us and not others. What matters…

— Maya Lang

On the 'Tom and Jerry's,' Joe and I would sit across a desk from each other and develop the story. Joe would…

— William Hanna

Though my parents have seen me in all possible avatars, my extended family has been pretty excited since the time they've gotten…

— Taapsee Pannu

In order to describe a particular subculture, you might want to portray people who are typical or representative of that subculture; but…

— Jonathan Dee

As with any other great force of nature, there is both glory and danger in the stories we tell ourselves. Some are…

— Dawna Markova

“..there are two possible endings to every story.”

— Christie Watson

“This one moment, when you know you're not a sad story. You're alive.”

— Anonymous

“A story is not finished, until it has taken the worst turn”

— Friedrich Dürrenmatt

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

— Daniel Woodrell

My first love is a wonderful script. It's the story.

— Sophie Okonedo

The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.

— John Lee Hooker

“In modern times couples are more concerned about loyalty than love.”

— Amit Kalantri

Storytelling is the game. It's what we all do.

— Gary Vaynerchuk

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

— Andrew Stanton

Anurag Kashyap is someone whose projects I can take without even hearing the story.

— Pankaj Tripathi

To ask for a map is to say, "Tell me a story."

— Peter Turchi

I hope to build a beautiful story here with Spurs like I did with Corinthians.

— Paulinho

Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves...

— Cheryl Strayed

“If the farmer is rich, then so is the nation.”

— Amit Kalantri

But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story.

— Cornelia Funke

A strong theme is always running through a well-told story,

— Andrew Stanton