Story Quotes
What I've started I must finish. I've gone too far to turn back. Regardless of what may happen, I have to go forward.
In terms of writing characters or stories, at least initially, there's no difference between live-action and animation. A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.
A good story remains a good story, whether it is on glossy paper or a mobile phone display, is carved into marble tablets or appears as a Bild headline.
I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.
Not only is a good prank harmless, but, like a good story, it reveals an essential truth that would otherwise be hidden.
I do watch 'Revenge,' 'American Horror Story' and 'Game of Thrones.' I am behind on all of them. But I do watch them. Those are my go-to shows.
Husbands make the best kinds of heroes. - Lisa JacobsonMarriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story.
I won't do this movie because I don't believe the love story," she told Selznick. "The heroine is an intellectual woman, and an intellectual woman simply can't fall in love so deeply.
When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world.
I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel.
The real story is that I am very free, that I've managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.
Share your story with someone. You never know how one sentence of your life story could inspire someone to rewrite their own.
An individual who expresses high confidence probably has a good story, which may or may not be true.
The constant in my films is love stories. I consider love the chief business of humanity.
I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come.
Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.
Some Day Someone is going to pick up this book (The Bible) and believe it, and put us all to shame.
I see a broken shell and I remind myself that something might have needed setting free. See, broken things always have a story, don't they?
I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story.
Given the choice between trivial material brilliantly told versus profound material badly told, an audience will always choose the trivial told brilliantly.
Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.
In order that love be fully satisfied, It is necessary that It lower Itself and that It lower Itself to nothingness and transform this nothingness into fire.
If you're right & I'm not, I'm going to be hell to live with, she said. So, you better think about that next time you want to be right.
It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.
Wanting him to come back before anyone notices part of the world has not moved since he left.
But you're the hardest thing I've ever done, and you're also the best. So... I think that's the moral of the story here. Anything worth having is worth fighting for.
Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.
In that film Love Story, there's a line, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." That's the dumbest thing I ever heard. Love means saying you're sorry every day for some little thing or other.
(The movie) is the story of my life, but it's not about me. It's about anybody who ever dreamed big and had someone tell them, 'No, you can't do it.' You can.
All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.
In Africa I discovered what the true purpose of a musician is. We are historians, and it is our purpose to tell the people the true story of our past, and to extend a better vision of the future.
Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.
In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter.
The story of my life is profoundly unclear. It is a rock-and-roll story and, at the same time, a story of my walk with Christ. The two are melded together in ways both unpredictable and unsure.
I could never have a mistress, because I couldn't bear to tell the story of my life all over again.
A person’s life story is equal to what they have plus what they want most in the world, minus what they’re actually willing to sacrifice for it.
At the end of the day, 'Rocky' is a love story, and he could never have reached the final bell without Adrian.
When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story.