Story Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sometimes, we become so familiar with the primal sacred story of the Bible that we need some fresh takes on it, telling us the same thing in different ways, or giving us some new vantage points to see what was always there, things we'd missed before.
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You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad.
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Basically, I just write whatever story grabs me rather than considering the genre.
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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.
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I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once?
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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.
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Life is a chance, a story is a chance. That I am here is a chance.
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The flashbacks are a great way to give answers to the story.
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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.
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First and foremost, God is the true hero of the story. No matter how captivating the other characters may be, our top priority is to discover what the Bible reveals about God.
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The splendour falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
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People have forgotten how to tell a story.
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The first principle was “Story Is King,” by which we meant that we would let nothing—not the technology, not the merchandising possibilities—get in the way of our story.
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He was always part of her thoughts, and now that he was real, he was inescapably part of her life, but it was as she had told her mother: saying he was part of her or that they were more than friends sounded like love, but it seemed like loss as well. All the words she knew to describe what he was to her were from love stories and love songs, but those were not words anyone truly meant.
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My commitment originated in my own story and my own relationship to violence.
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I've tried to live my life right, just like a story.
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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.
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If something wants to be a story, it will be.
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A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side.
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Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.
