Stories Quotes
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We don't think much about how our love stories will affect the world, but they do. Children learn what's worth living for and what's worth dying for by the stories they watch us live. I want to teach our children how to get scary close, and more, how to be brave. I want to teach them that love is worth what it costs.
Donald Miller -
The best lives and stories are made up of minute particulars that somehow are also universal and of use to others as well as oneself.
Barbara Myerhoff
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I'm a true opera buff. Operas make the best stories.
Andrea Davis Pinkney -
What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories.
Henry Louis Gates -
There are happy stories out there, but I think some of them may raise false expectations for teens.
Adam Silvera -
Solid information is necessary, but insufficient. We also need to present that information in ways that are inspiring and accessible. That's where stories come in.
Annie Leonard -
I always had stories inside my head and one day I just decided to start writing them down. I didn't actually decide.
Judy Blume -
I've never really found inspiration for story ideas in the news, but I'd say it certainly affects our lives in so many ways. I would say that certainly the stories of the day appear in the work - I just have never gone so far as to say, well, this particular event could influence a plot of an entire book.
Michael Koryta
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I started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14.
Cary Fukunaga -
We know people by their stories: their history, their habits, their secrets, their triumphs and failures. We know them by what they do. We want to know mountains too, but they’ve got no story. So we do the next best thing. We throw ourselves onto them and make the stories happen.
Bruce Barcott -
Scripture is, at its heart, the great story that we sing in order not just to learn it with our heads but to become part of it through and through, the story that in turn becomes part of us.
N. T. Wright -
Loads of overtaking is boring. You go fishing and you catch a fish every ten minutes and it's boring. But if you site there all day, and you catch one mega fish, you come back with stories that you caught a fish this big (indicates a big fish), intead of this size (indicating a small fish)
Eddie Irvine -
Focus on sharing your story and affecting the people that are hungry for your light.
Kathryn Budig -
I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.
Ernest Gaines
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I think a day in your life on which nothing bad happens may be a wonderful day, but it probably isn't going to be the basis of a story.
Alice Mattison -
I was trying to write a song based on a story in a random book of Puerto Rican short stories that I found in a thrift store. I thought it was really dark, and so I tried to interpret it. I've always been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.
Bradford Cox -
My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.
Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi -
Stories are not about ideas, gimmicks, or places. Stories are about people. People are about feelings!
Barry B. Longyear -
Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support.
Paul Davies -
People love telling their stories, even if they're very, very sad ones. People love to communicate and express.
Virginia Williams
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I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion.
Jhumpa Lahiri -
The story of journalism, on a day-to-day basis, is the story of the interaction of reporters and officials
Michael Schudson -
We may be willing to tell a story twice, never to hear it more than once.
William Hazlitt -
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