Stories Quotes

We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.

Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.

The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback.

Every line is the actual experience with its own unique story.

Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music

A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.

There's the story, then there's the real story, then there's the story of how the story came to be told. Then there's what you leave out of the story. Which is part of the story too.

The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people.

I have always had such sincere love for truth, that I have often begun by telling stories for the purpose of getting truth to enter the heads of those who could not appreciate its charms.

The decisions you make today will determine the stories you tell tomorrow.

You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

Be unpredictable, be real, be interesting. Tell a good story.

Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born.

The story that you tell yourself is exactly what holds you back from being successful.

I don't know why 'happy' can't be a story.

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel

The moral of the story: perceptions are everything. During each moment you are in contact with a customer, you are the organization.

Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.

Stories are equipment for living.

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

It's the way you play that makes it . . . Play like you play. Play like you think, and then you got it, if you're going to get it. And whatever you get, that's you, so that's your story.

The vast waterfall of history pours down, and a few obituarists fill teacups with the stories.

There's so much more to tell about Africa than the usual stories about war, famine and disease.

If your stories are all about your products and services, that's not storytelling. It's a brochure. Give yourself permission to make the story bigger.

Adam had once told Gansey, "Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done.

God is telling an amazing, glorious, epic story. We have to decide if we will trust Him with it.

In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back.

My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I think he was really my tutor.

A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.

I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.

Ayame: This concludes my wonderful story. Kyo Sohma: You mean stupid!

With a purposeful story, you can change a "wanna be" to a "gonna be" to a "be".

I wish I had a funny story.

First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien life out there? It's also about politics.

I think décor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story.

I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .

'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.

I can't help but laugh at all of you writing fake stories about me. I was not in any hit and runs. I don't drink so the DUI is false.

I keep everything very simple. I like telling stories.

If as a child I had written a story, the best story that I could imagine, I would have written as indeed is happening to me.

We are storied folk. Stories are what we are; telling and listening to stories is what we do.

Second, there are so many magical places in books that you cant go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.

When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.

You can’t really change the heart without telling a story.

Female success stories from sporting events like the Olympic Games have played a role in shifting the Indian perception to see the female athlete as a hero and a role model for young Indian girls.