Story Quotes

• I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story.

  

  Donald Miller
  • God
  • Help
  • Understand

• What was interesting to me was how they actually went to 9/11 and they chose that as part of his back story that we can unravel because it's something that people have shied away from for very obvious reasons. The opportunity to deal with some of that aftermath and the sensitivity, we can use that, and it will be a really neat thing.

  

  Brian Wayne Peterson
  • People
  • Story
  • 9/11

• If you're telling your own story, it's going to be unique because it's yours.

  

  Wrabel
  • Unique
  • Story
  • Telling

• The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Great
  • Together
  • Harmony

• When you have a memorable story about who you are and what your mission is, your success no longer depends on how experienced you are or how many degrees you have or who you know. A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers, and opens doors.

  

  Blake Mycoskie
  • Success
  • Mission
  • Boundaries

• I'm a visual thinker, so I think of everything visually, first. A lot of what an issue will become for me starts with me thinking, "What's a great cover?," or "What's the splash image?," or "What is the title of the issue? How do I see the text?" I think about all of that stuff, and then the story comes out of that imagery.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Comes
  • Thinker
  • Imagery

• Peace - the word evokes the simplest and most cherished dream of humanity. Peace is, and has always been, the ultimate human aspiration. And yet our history overwhelmingly shows that while we speak incessantly of peace, our actions tell a very different story.

  

  Javier Perez de Cuellar
  • History
  • Dream
  • Peace

• He looked so sorry and miserable as he pushed me out the door. It stung. It always stings when there's this whole story going on and you're really just a B-plot walk-on who only got a look at three pages of the script.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Miserable
  • Looked
  • Stings

• That experience of losing home, longing for home, that yearning for meaning and rootedness and identity in a floating world, it's what often makes an immigrant story into an American story .

  

  Andrew Lam
  • Home
  • Losing
  • Immigrant

• The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Great
  • History
  • Christian

• With historicals, the research is half the fun. Contemporaries are especially easy. People are right out there in front of you; you meet them every day. You can concentrate wholly on the story and characters.

  

  Heather Graham
  • People
  • Characters
  • Contemporaries

• What I ended up doing was kind of crafting an idea for a story, presenting it to a writer - a dear friend of mine, Brad Mirman - and he ended up writing a beautiful script. I should've done that a lot earlier.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Done

• My feeling was, if we're going to tell the story about people rioting and burning down embassies, it's part of the story to know what it is that has caused such outrage.

  

  Chris Wallace
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Outrage

• The story of the Amazon is a story that has been told by Europeans, you know, by Germans, by Canadians, by Americans.

  

  Ciro Guerra
  • Americans
  • Told
  • Amazon

• You remember what I said, way way way back at the start of Hiccup’s adventures, how this would be the story of becoming a Hero the Hard Way? Now you can begin to see exactly how hard the way has been.

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • Hero
  • Adventures
  • Hiccup

• The job's always the same. It involves helping to tell the story and creating an alloy between character and story that serves the film.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Character
  • Film
  • Story

• At some point, if you're lucky, you realize you're not the story. You're part of the story. The story is much bigger than you.

  

  James Herbert Keenan Children of the Anachronistic Dynasty
  • Story
  • Lucky
  • Part

• The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.

  

  John Scott
  • Story
  • Older
  • Concentrating

• One of the general morals of this story is that if you have to take some risks, it is often better to do so as quickly as possible.

  

  Avinash Dixit
  • Story
  • Possible
  • Risks

• My story has been the story of my generation.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Story
  • Generation
  • Been

• People who were more concerned with themselves and looking good to their readers then they were with the characters sacrificed a series for the sake of a story.

  

  Len Wein
  • People
  • Good
  • Readers

• Gender has always been considered a fact immutable. But we now know it's actually more fluid, complex, and mysterious. Because of my success, I never have the courage to share my story. Not because I thought what I am is wrong but because of how the world treats those of us who wish to break free.

  

  Geena Rocero
  • Success
  • Gender
  • Treats

• Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Story
  • Suppose
  • Adventures

• Every fictional thing I wrote gave me strength to write another and another. By the end I wasn't remaining true to anything but the story I wanted to tell.

  

  Lily King
  • True
  • Story
  • Fictional

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