Stories Quotes
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I love different sorts of people, their stories, all the different facets, that make them, them. This is entwined with how I am compelled to tell many of these stories and have ended up being a broadcaster after originally going to drama school and working in fashion for a bit.
Gemma Cairney
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I'd like to do the young cadet thing again for sure, but that's why I wanted to do this, to see if I could do it. I took the scenes out of the script and put them together and read them as one little arc, story and that seemed to work.
Scott Speedman
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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
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Religion, it must be understood, is not faith. Religion is the story of faith.
Reza Aslan
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When I think of Tokyo Story, yeah, it is like a novella. That doesn't mean it's not great. Some of my favorite Tolstoy works are his novellas.
Paul Auster
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We need to continue to strive to tell these different stories.”
Arwa Damon
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All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter.
Vladimir Nabokov
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All these questions about do you want to be king? It's not a question of wanting to be, it's something I was born into and it's my duty. . . . Wanting is not the right word. But those stories about me not wanting to be king are all wrong.
Prince William
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Today's worries are yesterday's fears and tomorrow's stories.
Alyson Noel
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Every articulate family ... generates its own stories, explanations and myths to illuminate the differences in temperament and talent among its children, the lines of allegiance and influence between parent and child.
Elizabeth Fishel
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I have to admit that talking authoritatively about my students' stories can make me feel, at times, like an astronaut who has just landed on a new planet and insists on giving guided tours to its inhabitants.
Etgar Keret
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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
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I've always been jealous of people who can tell stories really well in a room with a bunch of people. I've never been good at it because I'm not cocky enough to be like, "Okay, everyone, listen right now to this. I'm going to blow your minds with this joke."
Brendan Benson
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Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.
Marianne Williamson
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And the Bible is not primarily a book of history. It is "His story," the story of God.
Adrian Rogers
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“Telling stories about your memory of what happened may be entertaining for a while, but if that is all you can do it gets boring pretty fast.”
Brad Blanton
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Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.
Patrick Ness
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What I've learned is, if I have to go out and speak, the best way to get people's attention is to tell them a story, tell them a story that came from my corazón.
Sandra Cisneros
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I think that's actually what draws me to family stories: the various roles we each play with each member of our families, and how different they can be from who we are with our friends and partners and lovers. I'm endlessly fascinated by how we navigate these family dynamics; they are the dramas each of us live out day after day, often in ways we don't even realize.
Christopher Castellani
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We will read all the stories about how tough he was and all the rest of it, but I think he was a tremendously compassionate man as well.
Eddie McGuire
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Stories help me. To live. To work. To find the meaning hidden in every dream, ever leaf, every drop of dew.
T.A. Barron
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When kids don't learn about their own heritage in school, they just don't care about school... But you won't see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.
Miles Davis
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All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis.
Helen Suzman
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This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.
Northrop Frye