Stories Quotes
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I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.
Jim Davis
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What one wants to do with stories is screw them up.
William H. Gass
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It's time to begin righting the story of your life.
David Jeremiah
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The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.
Raymond Queneau
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Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going because they were holding on to something.... That there's some good in the world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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I enjoyed showing a bit more leg in the last few stories. It was good fun, but it can be quite sexist. But it doesnt worry me personally all that much.
Sarah Sutton
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No, I only like whether I like the story or not, essentially see something in it that isn't completely there.
Vincente Minnelli
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I'm a fan of horror movies that have really good stories.
Scott Eastwood
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Take a play that you like but you think is flawed, and see if you can improve it and turn it into a musical. [...] Then make up your own story.
Stephen Sondheim
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I love hearing stories, telling stories, sharing stories. I've shared 37,000 on the Oprah show! Every day I was like the town crier.
Oprah Winfrey
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The story is everything, which means it's our job to tell better stories.
Kevin Spacey
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I am the guinea pig of my films in a way. I test the stories a bit before I make them. I've never hung myself like the character in my latest film, but I've tried to be a reporter of life.
Claude Lelouch
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There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.
Sean Lennon
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Comics, which are really best described as an arrangement of images in a sequence that tell a story - an idea - is a very old form of graphic communication. It began with the hieroglyphics in Egypt, it first appeared in a recognizable form in the Medieval times as copper plates produced by the Catholic church to tell morality stories.
Will Eisner
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Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.
Patrick Ness
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When I knocked a guy down, there was no second part to the story.
Bob Gibson
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Stories break silence and nourish those who work, feel, and dream.
Carmen Naranjo
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Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own stories.
Teju Cole
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Stories and cigarettes ruined lives of lesser girls.
Pete Yorn
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Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be.
Tan Sri Dato' Seri Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng
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I love truthful songs that tell a story and talk about people and their lives. If a song calls for a tear, then we will cry. If a song calls for a smile, then we will laugh. That is what I like to do.
Gene Watson
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Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time.
Jimmy Buffett
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I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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When I was little, I always used to like to tell stories cuz it was entertaining to people.
Slick Rick