Story Quotes
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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.
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I'm an extra in your story. Well, you're an extra in mine, boy.
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A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle.
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You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.
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There is a sequence of events in our lives and so there's a temporal aspect to our experience that brings by itself, sense into the story. In other words, you were not walking before you were born and you were not doing X and Y before you did something else first. So there's a sequencing of events that imposes a certain structure to the story.
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The meaning of the story is the story.
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If you tell the same story five times, it's true.
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I wrote 'Ain't It Cool? Hollywood's Redheaded Stepchild Speaks Out,' because in doing hundreds and hundreds of interviews over the past six and a half years, I was tired of the story being half told or a third told or erroneously told.
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New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories.
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Every day, my mom and I would watch a different Judy Garland VHS. I love how she tells a story when she sings. It was just about her voice and the words she was singing - no strings attached or silly hair or costumes, just a woman singing her heart out. I feel like that doesn't happen that much anymore.
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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.'
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Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.
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If you don't have story to tell the public at large - you have to be able to sort of go listen.
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The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.
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If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong.
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If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story.
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That's the story of my life; I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.
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I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,'_ 'tender' or 'universal.' But to the real question of what's inside: I avoid books that seem to conservatively follow stale formulas. I don't read for plot, a story 'about' this or that.
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It is more important to me that my students come out of my class believing This story is interesting and I might want to know more about it, than to fill them up with information. If I can remind them or convince them that history is interesting then I feel I have succeeded, because unlike chemistry or physics, history is a subject that anyone can teach themselves, if they are interested.
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When you make loving others the story of your life, there's never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another.
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That was the best kind of story: when the teller was as much under its spell as the listener.
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If someone is critiquing the actual technique involved, that’s a whole other story. Mainly a lot of music critics have a tendency to just say they don’t like it.
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A true epilogue is removed from the story in time or space. That's the reason it is called an 'Epilogue'; the label serves to alert the reader that the story itself is over, but we are going to now see a distant result or consequence of that story.
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Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.
