Stories Quotes

• I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Parents
  • Community
  • Stories

• We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our history the history becomes twisted and we get written out. We get our noses blown off.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • People
  • History
  • Black

• When I was in school, my former roommate went through hazing. I heard the stories, but I don't think I've seen a movie that captures the stuff that goes on.

  

  Nick Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • Movie
  • Stories
  • Roommate

• Some people are going to leave, but that's not the end of your story. That's the end of their part in your story.

  

  Faraaz Kazi
  • People
  • Stories
  • Sad Love

• No, I only like whether I like the story or not, essentially see something in it that isn't completely there.

  

  Vincente Minnelli
  • Stories

• we become the stories we tell ourselves

  

  Michael Cunningham
  • Stories
  • Become
  • Ourselves

• My mother went to Radcliffe, and rather than just trying to get rich, she wanted to be a teacher and taught for over 30 years in the public schools. She's definitely got some war stories.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Trying
  • She
  • War

• Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..."

  

  William Bennett
  • Time
  • Television
  • Insult

• MS is terrible for anybody, and all of the stories are important.

  

  Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
  • Important
  • Terrible
  • MS

• As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as soon as I could string words together.

  

  Sarah Zettel
  • Writing
  • Together
  • Strings

• A feature film is an expansion of budget, stress, story, hours, time, workload, everything.

  

  Taika Waititi
  • Time
  • Stress
  • Expansion

• History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Stories
  • Repetition
  • Tiresome

• There's a lot of great writing, and characters, and stories being told in television nowadays. And much more than there used to be. The opportunities to tell stories, because of the opportunities to show content. And so it's drawing actors from cinema, movie actors, actors to where there's a lot of opportunities to where you can tell stories.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Movie

• It is not about whether you are an executive, a studio or a network. If you have a story or an idea you can build a following for it.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Ideas
  • Following
  • Studios

• I'm not a malicious person. When you get past the tattoos and leather, I give people a fair shake. There are periods when I've sowed some wild oats, no doubt about it. And I can party with some of the heavyweights. There are some stories about me that, yeah, where there's smoke there's fire. But sometimes the smoke is just smoke.

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
  • People
  • Fire
  • Smoke

• Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Children
  • Death
  • Crush

• Yeah, it's an origin story. But you very quickly get into the origin and then it's off to the races. It is an origin story, certainly, but it's not like the movie ends and somebody stretches. It happens pretty quickly and I'm not sure how much I'm allowed to say about it, but I think when people see that first hint, they'll be pretty excited about it.

  

  Nicholas Stoller
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Firsts

• We come to know ourselves only through stories. We listen to the stories of others, we inherit the stories of those who came before, and we make sense of our own experiences by constructing a narrative that holds them, and holds us, together. Stories are how we make sense of our lives.

  

  Camilla Gibb
  • Know
  • Sense
  • Lives

• 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
  • Good
  • Love
  • Failure

• A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject to the mood. And you can try more ephemeral, more fleeting things in a story - you can work more by suggestion - than in a novel. Less is resolved, more is suggested, perhaps.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Mood

• I write my own stories. I like telling stories to little children. I think the good thing about stories is they carry you to another place which you've never been. And you feel like you're just enveloped by the book and the characters.

  

  Georgie Henley
  • Stories
  • Characters
  • Enveloped

• Woodrell's storytelling is as melodic, jangly and energetic as a good banjo riff.... Sammy Barlach's story is a tragedy, but the telling of it is a pleasure.

  

  Valerie Sayers
  • Good
  • Tragedy
  • Storytelling

• A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Stories
  • Size
  • Blade

• The great thing about having spent all this time on film sets is that I've been able to watch directors and how they work. I now know that this is what I want to do as well: to tell stories visually. But it's definitely my vision that I want to put across, nobody else's.

  

  Catherine McCormack
  • Want
  • Tell
  • Visually

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