Story Quotes

If you want to continue to be the best in the world, then you have to train and compete like you are second best in the world.

I looked at an angel today, but the angel could not see me. The angel was more amazing than beautiful, like the best forgotten dream.

Men take care of your responsibilities with maturity.

A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight.

It was juvenile, he knew, this need to assign blame, but everyone had a right to childish emotions from time to time, didn't they?

Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word.

Do you want to know what one of the secrets to achieving all of your goals is? You’ve got to be committed.

The challenge for you is to decide not what is important, but what is most important and then focus your attention on that.

It is one thing to know what should be done, it is another to do it.

It is true to say that the secret of a winning formula is the ability to accept that there is a vast area of unexploited potential beyond what you currently perceive to be your maximum.

We stay this way until twilight colours the window and the hour calls me home

Mix with positive-minded people as a means to tap into your unexploited potential.

Success is simply never giving in to failure - either in mind or body.

The only test is what you see when you look in a mirror.

There is only Love -- and Stories. All else is but a shadow dream.

I tell ya! The road to success is an endless battle for you and me.

I’ve never really had a party before.” “Why did you have one now?” I say, just to keep him talking. He gives a half laugh. “I thought if I had a party, you would come.

the unexpected moment [is] always sweeter.

'A Christmas Story' has always meant a lot to me personally.

I could forget that part, but it had to have been true.

If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.

Frequent friction when love becomes political.

Fear of change was a weakness

Either give me your hand, or end it now, and put us both out of our misery

Just identify the very first physical action you need to take, and do it.

You have to create your self-belief by going to your core to find the probable reasons for the negativity in you, and then demolish them.

Too often, we get attention and sympathy by being a victim. If we're invested in someone being our villain, we must love being the victim. We have to let go of both characters in the story.

But I wondered if all this kissing was a bad habit with him and me. The thing we did with our mouths instead of talking.

If you are able to focus unswervingly on your goals, then all that you desire will become yours.

I realized it was like looking into the sun—you shouldn't do it, because you'd turn your face away and be blind to everything else.

When you think a positive thought, you become positive.

Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.

See it first in your mind, then become it.

Explore. Train your conscious mind and your subconscious mind to start working for you by getting those great powers to move in a new direction. Start creating your own good luck today.

We simply can’t feel fulfilled by love we pay for.

Our own story is even more important for us to know than history.

The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story.

Impulsive passion please set me free.

Don't do this to us." He warned, his voice hoarse with angry desperation as he realize he was losing her. "You're letting eleven years of mistrust color everything you've discovered I've done".

Joys circular fulfillment was so persistent, when I was weak it gave me strength.

I think that's a hallmark of a really good story that it has readers that it speaks to more than others.

It's a universal story, it's an immigrant story, and it's a love story. In the United States, if you believe in yourself and you're determined and persevere, you're going to succeed.

The best defense is a good story.

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.

I have a lot of good stories for talk shows about the conditions in which I worked.

In Mosca’s experience, a ‘long story’ was always a short story someone did not want to tell.

I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.

I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and I've written for Hollywood.

I love intricate plotting and exciting twists, but I realize more that people enjoy a good story in a simple, focused way.

I think there are a lot of great journalists out there. I don't find much fault in the journalist in general; I think everybody would like to break a good story.