Story Quotes

Sometimes, when you're deep in the countryside, you meet three girls, walking along the hill tracks ...

Everybody jokes about that old story about the world only needing five computers, but when you think...

How can a person deal with anxiety? You might try what one fellow did. He worried so much that he de...

At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.

If the history of the western moral imagination is the story of an enduring and unending revolt agai...

Everyone listened to this amusing narrative with great interest, and the moment that Behemoth conclu...

The meaning did not precede the dream; the dream preceded the meaning. So the way to read the tale i...

The people who'd made the system thus were jealous, not of money and not of power but of story. If t...

Seven billion who need to be kept happy, and docile, until the end. How do you do that? What's the b...

I decided that a story was anything that I made up that kept the reader turning the pages or watchin...

Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not ...

Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets h...

Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to he...

A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.

Although I'm not actually embarrassed by this, I tend not to read books that have awesome movies mad...

Always stick to the story. It was when you started backtracking that people got in trouble. Interrog...

Who am I? And how, I wonder, will this story end?

The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa's major hope fo...

The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything ...

I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyte...

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 ...