Story Quotes
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We write to tell a story, to describe an event, to imagine or explain what has been or will happen, to warn or touch or inspire. We write to express our most profound emotions—love and hatred, joy and sorrow, humor and sadness.
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Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.
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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.
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When she told a story, she rolled her eyes and waved her head and was very dramatic.
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Let go of your story so the Universe can write a new one for you.
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I mean to say, whether a yarn is tall or small I like to hear it well told. I like to meet a man that can take in hand to tell a story and not make a balls of it while he's at it. I like to know where I am, do you know. Everything has a beginning and an end.
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Whatever claim you use to get attention, the advertisement should tell a story reasonably complete.
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It's hard to hear the story of a love affair between two straight men, one of whom is the most divine woman alive.
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But basically, I'm trying to write a fun story.
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The story ends up being a journey of self-discovery.
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It's fun, I suppose. It may be that the story of Hanukkah has appeal, that's it's about not assimilating, about fighting oppression. But it's probably because they grew up with it.
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Documentaries are inherently instinctual; you're constantly moment to moment, determining what the best place for the camera is to tell the story, usually in service of natural lighting.
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You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.
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I think everybody did their share of experimenting in the 1960s with drugs. My story is real simple. I was taking amphetamines in the late 60s and I was addicted to them. I don't necessarily know the why. I'm sure at the time I could've told you six different reasons why I was doing it. But, in the end, all of that stuff, all chemicals will hurt you.
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If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.
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We all love to hear a good story. We save our stories in books. We save our books in libraries. Libraries are the storyhouses full of all those stories and secrets.
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I wanted it to feel like a short story, but it's a long short story,
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When you have an important story to tell, the words you need seem to come of their own accord.
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You don't have to live anybody else's story.
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The thing about Depeche songs is that they’re so descriptive. For me, they tell some kind of story about a character who’s trying to redeem himself or to find something to believe in-some kind of faith or hope.
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I should say that, in addition to my tree-love (it was originally called The Tree), it arose from my own pre-occupation with the Lord of the Rings, the knowledge that it would be finished in great detail or not at all, and the fear (near certainty) that it would be 'not at all'. The war had arisen to darken all horizons. But no such analyses are a complete explanation even of a short story.
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Once you get a little crack you’ve got your foothold. You understand the story and can morph the rest of it out of that.
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I loved the story, the comedy and how emotional it becomes. It was also an opportunity to do something different to what I had done before.
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The story of the Alamo has touched many more people than one would think. So, I would like to pay my respects to those men on both sides of the walls in those months of February and March 1836.
