Story Quotes
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It's been exciting to share my story for people to relate to me and reach out.
Mirai Nagasu
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Jordie Bellaire knows how to tell a story with color.
Scott Snyder
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This story never really had a point. It’s just a lull - a skip in the record. We are addresses in ghost towns. We are old wishes that never came true. We are hand grenades and every word you say pulls the pin). We are all gods, we are all monsters.
Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
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The filmmakers have a story they want to tell, and they go get the material they need for it. The film either exceeds or fails to meet up to their expectations or it's different.
Joshua Oppenheimer
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As a writer, I challenge myself not to tell the same story - to tackle different characters with different issues.
Eric Jerome Dickey
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The local news does a story about it and everyone goes “Neat!” and then tomorrow we forget about it in favor of some other ABSOLUTELY PERFECT AND REMARKABLE THING.
Hank Green
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I am not an analytical writer. Once I flesh out my characters and decide on the elements of my plot, the story unfolds in my head almost as though it was a movie reel.
Susan Carroll
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Look at the very people who are involved in this. They have popped up in other settings. The great story here for anybody willing to find it, write about it and explain it is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president.
Hillary Clinton
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Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The flashbacks are a great way to give answers to the story.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
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History is a ghost story.
Cressida Cowell
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All over the country, they're reading about me, and the story doesn't center on me being gay. It's just about a gay person who is doing his job.
Harvey Milk
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I can think of no better way to meet a girl than to see her through the eyes of the story she loves best.
Beth Revis
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Five story Georgian terrace whose elegant proportions would have caused the most hardened Canadian property developer’s soul to weep to see such beauty—just prior to having the place gutted and filled with the latest in personality-free interior design.
Ben Aaronovitch
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Thus the story of the facts has to reckon with filters, deferments, partial truths, half lies: from it comes an arduous measurement of time passed that is based completely on the unreliable measuring device of words.
Elena Ferrante
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I'm an actor, and I want to play flawed characters, and I'm a writer that wants to write flawed characters, trying to let something out and hoping people relate through that or have fun experiencing the story.
Brett Gelman
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I've always wanted to tell a story about Lincoln. I saw a paternal father figure; I saw someone who was completely, stubbornly committed to his ideals, to his vision.
Steven Spielberg
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I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I become dangerously involved in becoming a part of that story.
Steven Spielberg
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I love the story of a thing. I love a thing for what it means a thousand times more than for what it's worth.
Elizabeth Wein
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I slipped away, and am still slipping away, within these lines that are intended to give me a story yet in fact are nothing, nothing of mine, nothing that has really begun or really been brought to completion, only a tangled knot, and nobody, not even she who at this moment is writing, knows if it contains the right thread for a story or is merely a snarled confusion of suffering, without redemption.
Elena Ferrante
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So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.
Will Durant
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Life is a chance, a story is a chance. That I am here is a chance.
Gerald Vizenor
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My commitment originated in my own story and my own relationship to violence.
Eve Ensler
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No one is making me say this. No one is making me tell this story. Nobody’s ever been much good at making me say anything I hadn’t already made up my mind to say.
Elizabeth Bear