Story Quotes

It will be worth it if I am remembered, if not flatteringly, then at least with some small amount of...

The truth of the story lies in the details.

A story is the shortest distance between being a stranger and being a friend.

Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and ci...

Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and ci...

Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and ci...

Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and ci...

[a] characteristic of a symbol is that it opens up levels of reality which otherwise are closed for ...

Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story betwe...

I think we're going to enter a phase where there's less interest in the CGI and there's a demand for...

You're in the story with the rest of us now, and you must go with it, whether you will or no.

This story is about love, which means that it is also about hate.

One’s story isn’t a skin to be shed— it’s inescapable, one’s body and blood. You go on pumping it ou...

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And...

I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of st...

...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what hap...

I love stories with love in them. I just prefer those films. Every so often, I come across a film wh...

If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.

As long as they talk about you, you're not really dead, as long as they speak your name, you continu...

No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.

Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person withou...

But that is another story.

I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it sto...

All men needed to hear their stories told. He was a man, but if he died without telling the story he...

I don’t know: perhaps it’s a dream, all a dream. (That would surprise me.) I’ll wake, in the silence...

In a very real way, one writes a story to find out what happens in it. Before it is written it sits ...

There were so many places in my time with Rogerson that I wished I could go back to, hitting the sto...

I've always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell.

You see it is likely that, when my brother told the story, that night when we got home and my mother...

All cat stories start with the statement: 'My mother, who was the first cat, told me this,' and I la...

All cat stories start with the statement: 'My mother, who was the first cat, told me this,' and I la...

All cat stories start with the statement: 'My mother, who was the first cat, told me this,' and I la...

All cat stories start with the statement: 'My mother, who was the first cat, told me this,' and I la...

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers that is a fairy story for people afraid of...

I'm not much of a believer in the so-called character study; I think that in the end, the story shou...

Read sometimes for the story, Bobby. Don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes ...

His story is simple, because simple is always best.

Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.

I'm not much of a believer in the so-called character story; I think that in the end, the story shou...

Storytelling was the most honored of all talents, for it benefited everyone.

Atari is a very sad story.

Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noi...

Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in co...

Whenever I write a story, I hope it appeals to both boys and girls.

'The Story of Us' is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show,...

'Love Story' is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and...

There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything...

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote...

The ‘experimental’ writer, then, is simply following the story’s commands to the best of his human a...

We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it's a sad story, as if we didn't...

He wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot that you would feel exactly what he felt.

Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you...

Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has...

Quite, quite,' she thought with a little sigh. 'It's always like this in their adventures. To save a...

But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recogniz...

Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on.

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, make...

To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it ...

The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has ...

But love...it's only an illusion. A story one makes up in one's mind about another person. And one k...

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by ...

For seldom shall she hear a tale So sad so tender yet so true.

So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way,...

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is color that makes sense, so a story is life th...

My developing sense was that the foundation of a story is an emotional foundation. If a story does n...

The holy word is story, and story is the holy word.

It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every...

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing 'Maria' from West Side ...

If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then w...

machine. Unexpectedly, I'd invented a time

Her silent singing wrapped around the story she was telling herself, which she extended further ever...

I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and atmosph...

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be tol...

The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a...

In the story of the prince and the frog, there’s always a frog. This story ... it has no frog.

In Pliny I read about the invention of clay modeling. A Sicyonian potter came to Corinth. There his ...

And time inherently creates a story. Things begin and they end. How they end is the story. Or maybe ...

Isn't there a flaw in the logic of that phrase - speak truth to power? It assumes that power doesn't...

It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dre...

The story flared, then faded.

To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only...

It is, I think, the rarest of leisure, hard work mixed with hard pleasure, to refine one's time of d...

Story, as I understood it by reading Faulkner, Hardy, Cather, and Hemingway, was a powerful and clar...

Anyone, any type of story, it doesn't have to be a crime victim, you don't have to let yourself be f...

Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting...

That's not the part of the story that I'm interested in, anyway. The part that I'm interested in is ...

So the gods,” Moash said, nursing his own drink, “were pleased that you solved problems on your own ...

Courage, the original definition of courage, when it first came into the English language — it’s fro...

If you own this story you get to write the ending.

The rising strong reckoning has two deceptively simple parts: (1) engaging with our feelings, and (2...

When unconscious storytelling becomes out default, we often keep tripping over the same issue, stayi...

Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life...

My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. A...

I enjoy writing fiction more than writing anything else. Wouldn't anyone?

The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest ...

The novel is the privileged vehicle of two ways of being: narrative and freedom: to be new (novel) i...

And as he watched them walk out of the orphanage, Thomas Carter would think of their lives as the bl...