Story Quotes
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I thought that for a long while, but you chose me, and then you chose him, and choosing is hard - one choice is never the end of the story.
Catherynne M. Valente
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She just wanted to story heard.
Adam Horowitz
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I know there is a moral to this story, but I don't know what it is.
Nicole Krauss
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I am a story teller and I take each story very seriously.
Michael Welch
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The Bible continues to tell the story of how God did not simply walk away from his creation in the midst of turmoil and rebellion but purposed to rescue it at great cost to himself through the sacrificial death and subsequent resurrection of his Son, Jesus.
Andreas J. Kostenberger
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No matter how clear things might become in the forest of story, there was never a clear-cut solution, as there was in math. The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a problem into another form. Depending on the nature and the direction of the problem, a solution might be suggested in the narrative. Tengo would return to the real world with that solution in hand. It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell. It served no immediate practical purpose, but it contained a possibility.
Haruki Murakami
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You get to play with shadow, mood, and tone. And this [Batman All-Stars] is such a moody story.
Declan Shalvey
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I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.
Hermann Hesse
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The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.
Stockwell Day
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It's a lot harder to write a story that's compelling about identity and sense of self without some villain in the room.
Peter Paige
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The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation - This story begins and ends in joy.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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I've always loved Louisiana and particularly New Orleans, and I think a lot of people when they travel there, think they're home there - there are just so many spirits, it's so rich in culture. It's steeped in a true spirit of individuality that makes this country. It's the oldest part of our story, in a way. And being in that climate, it was really conducive to letting our imaginations soar. I found it to be the true inspiration.
Scarlett Johansson
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By not speaking you don't get rid of the story, you just open up a silence, which can be just as loud.
Matt Smith Poison
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When I moved to Beijing in 2005 to write, I was accustomed to hearing the story of China's transformation told in vast, sweeping strokes - involving one fifth of humanity and great pivots of politics and economics.
Evan Osnos
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Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.
Sylvester McCoy
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Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.
Tom Hanks
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The true story...is the realization that no time in your life is ever perfect, that even the best memories have cracks you might not see.
Sarah Dessen
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I so wish people had seen it your way, but I think too many of us have read the story to say it gives European white males carte blanche to play God over creation; so `having dominion' gives them a license to pollute and exploit.
Brian D. McLaren
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Life is a story and god is author.life is absurd.I think so.
Albert Camus
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Every great love starts with a great story.
Nicholas Sparks
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In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters.
Sidney Lumet
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I never know exactly where I'm going with a story, whether it's a short story or a novel. If I did I'd soon grow bored of it. The fun, for me, is in the finding out and the making sense of it.
Nicholas Royle
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If you always start with the worst hand, you never have a bad-beat story to tell.
Chuck Thompson