Story Quotes
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The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.
Franz Kafka
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A story has the opportunity to enlighten us, because as we connect the extraordinary moments on film with the ordinary moments of our lives, we ask ourselves, "What am I going to do the next time I'm scared? What would it be like to say goodbye to my family for the last time?"
Tom Hanks
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As for me, this is my story: I worked and was tortured. You know what it means to compose? No, thank God, you do not! I believe you have never written to order, by the yard, and have never experienced that hellish torture.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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We'd go through the whole story again, ... but when we got to that part, he kept saying, 'I don't remember.'
Paul Charles Caravello
Kiss
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The story of Pinocchio and the Talking Cricket, in which one sees that bad children do not like to be corrected by those who know more than they do.
Carlo Collodi
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The heart responds to the conflict within a story.
Donald Miller
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You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.
Len Wein
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My 14-year-old grandniece is not allowed to watch 'American Horror Story' yet.
Kathy Bates
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I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it.
Flannery O'Connor
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Some authors have conceptualized depression as a "depletion syndrome" because of the prominence of fatigability; they postulate that the patient exhausts his available energy during the period prior to the onset of the depression and that the depressed state represents a kind of hibernation, during which the patient gradually builds up a new story of energy.
Aaron T. Beck
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All I had, originally, were pages of Nolan's dialogue. I think his character serves the story in a nice way. He's a Greek chorus for the goings-on in the Hamptons.
Gabriel Mann
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I like Disney stuff. No-one looks at 'Toy Story' and says,' Oh, that's just for kids.' Why is it that games can only appeal to a certain audience, but movies and books - I mean, how many adults read 'Harry Potter?'
Warren Spector
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I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be killed, boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behaviour.
Charles Handy
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When I would be on the stage singing, I would see a movie of something that happened, I would be telling the story. I would be describing the story in sound, but my goal would be to make somebody else run their own movie.
Linda Ronstadt
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The first step now is for Barrymore to make an absolutely clean breast of it and tell everything that he knows, because up to now he has told a very partial story.
Tony Bennett
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The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.
W. S. Merwin
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I really liked to perform. My mother always tells this story: I was five. They had a party, and they'd put me to bed. I heard everyone on the rooftop, and I went upstairs. No one paid any attention to me, so I took a hose and sprayed everyone. Very elegant, right? 'It's me! Look at me!' I loved the attention.
Gal Gadot
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Whatever claim you use to get attention, the advertisement should tell a story reasonably complete.
Claude C. Hopkins
