Telling A Story Quotes

That awkward moment when half way through telling a story you realize its pointless.

— Anonymous

That sad moment when you're telling a story but you realize nobody's listening to you.

— Anonymous

I like when you are telling a story and fall into an impression.

— Bill Hader

“For me Photography is about telling a story with Images.”

— Ackeem thomas

Every leader is telling a story... about what he or she values.

— Walt Disney

I love being part of a company, and telling a story.

— Judi Dench

Authenticy in marketing is telling a story people want to hear.

— Seth Godin

Listening to someone telling a story and thinking: Lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie :D

— Anonymous

A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring…

— George Lucas

I really like telling stories. When I was a kid, I wanted to write songs. In quite a fundamental, gratifying, childish way,…

— Paul Bettany

I still go see films for entertainment, and I love them, but for me as a filmmaker, I really want to have…

— Charlie McDowell

When a bunch of stuff is happening on set, you have to remember the grander purpose: you're telling a story, so you…

— Taron Egerton

Yes, doing a work, telling a story very much represents a way to save my own life, and on so many levels.

— Emil Ferris

I think when you're telling a story from inside of you that's genuine, people connect with it.

— G-Eazy

I really believe it's the moments we can't talk about that become the rest of our lives. It's the moments we can't…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Whatever you do in terms of telling a story, the most important thing that you can define is who you are.

— John Patrick Shanley

My clothes have a story. They have an identity. They have a character and a purpose. That's why they become classics. Because…

— Vivienne Westwood

This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“The comic book is not the book. the graphic novel is not the novel. The same, of course, is true of films…

— George R.R. Martin

I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap…

— Viggo Mortensen

Because you're telling a story, and I'm sure people fifty years ago would tell the same story differently if they were telling…

— Dennis Muren

“The parable about the Good Samaritan tells how a Samaritan rescues a man who is mugged and beaten by robbers on the…

— Paul Miller

Just because I’m telling a story about a woman losing faith is not my rebellion against what I grew up in. If…

— Vera Farmiga

I personally was driven to be an actor for the love of telling a story. It was very closely linked to being…

— Lauren Graham

I was interested in the ways we can write biography. When you're first starting to write about your own life it feels…

— Sarah Gerard

“News of the miracle had reached the doge's palace, but in a somewhat garbled form. the result of the successive transmissions of…

— Jose Saramago

“There's an enormous difference between being a story writer and being a regular person. As a person, it's your duty to stay…

— Rick Bass

I dislike that premise implies that a fiction writer is incapable of dreaming up stories that can bring readers to tears, that…

— Leslie Pietrzyk

“Our family has survived a long time. We’ve weathered battles and transformations, enchantments and floods and fires. We’ve endured being sent away,…

— Juliet Marillier

I’m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges…

— Federico Fellini

I'll never accept that I'm a sex symbol. That will mean that someone is a bit too fond of himself. If it…

— Henry Cavill

The thing that helps me do a good job is that I don't feel the need to explain everything about the world…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“This work is the link between my Dear Natalie piece and my upcoming Agatha work. It bridges that lapse in time and…

— Jarod Kintz

“We’re all “storytellers.” We don’t call ourselves storytellers, but it’s what we do every day. Although we’ve been sharing stories for thousands…

— Carmine Gallo

“there was a sort of embarrassment about storytelling that struck home powerfully about one hundred years ago, at the beginning of modernism.…

— Philip Pullman

“Humans are a story telling species. Throughout history we have told stories to each other and ourselves as one of the ways…

— Nathan Myhrvold

“There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.…

— Philip Pullman

“Still. Four words. And I didn’t realize it until a couple of days ago, when someone wrote in to my blog: Dear…

— Neil Gaiman

“The discovery that detonated Cleveland is one of Britain’s great contributions to awareness of child abuse. In 1986 and 1987 the Leeds…

— Beatrix Campbell

“Nonfiction at its best is like fashioning a cabinet. It can be elegant and very beautiful but it can never be sculpture.…

— Peter Matthiessen