Stories Quotes
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Find the simple story in the product, and present it in an articulate and intelligent, persuasive way.
William Bernbach -
I read a lot of books. So, usually when I go home I try to re-charge my batteries and absorb new stories to become inspired again.
Mia Wasikowska
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Stories aren’t about things. Stories are things.
Bret Anthony Johnston -
We are defined by the stories we tell ourselves.
Anthony Robbins -
We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.
Hector Tobar -
You ought to be able to discover something from your stories. If you don't, probably nobody else will.
Flannery O'Connor -
I rarely return to characters. My characters, at least most of them, are much more a part of that superorganism that is the story than separate and independent creatures.
Etgar Keret -
And the moral of the story is I'm Thom Yorke.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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There are no facts, only stories.
Emma Restall Orr -
If you ask around, it's pretty easy to find someone who has a bank account overdraft horror story to tell.
Carolyn Maloney -
Sometimes it's a little overwhelming to take on other people's stories, that's just the kind of person I am, maybe I'm empathetic to a fault, I internalize a lot, so it can be a bit hard sometimes, but I understand that that's what they need, and if I can do it, then I'll do it, but if I can't, then I'll try to take a knee.
Frank Iero My Chemical Romance -
Stories are how we learn best. We absorb numbers and facts and details, but we keep them all glued into our heads with stories.
Chris Brogan -
When you put yourself in environments that continually test you, that's where all the good stories come from. That's where the jokes come from is from the shitty parts.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
All that is good in our history is gathered in libraries. At this moment, Plato is down there at the library waiting for us. So is Aristotle. Spinoza is there and so is Kats. Shelly and Byron adn Sam Johnson are there waiting to tell us their magnificent stories. All you have to do is walk in the library door and the great company open their arms to you. They are so happy to see you that they come out with you into the street and to your home. And they do what hardly any friend will-- they are silent when you wish to think.
Will Durant
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When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them.
Etgar Keret -
We're used to our users sharing a lot of stories with their friends. They are our chief ambassadors. Publishers are obviously an important partner for us, and we're always talking to them about how we can work together even more.
Alexander Klopping -
I will not let her speak because I love her, and when you love someone you do not make them tell war stories.
Catherynne M. Valente -
I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.
Stanley Kubrick -
Well, life is dark. We live in a very dark world. When they call them "dark films" it annoys me, because they're very real stories. They're stories I have seen or experienced or witnessed, and coming from that place, that is the hope of humanity.
Charlize Theron -
You do have to listen to the stories, for stories always mean something. The question that worries me is: WHAT exactly do they mean?
Cressida Cowell
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I've written some short stories about my personal experience, but it's not something you can use everywhere. Every novel, every work of fiction, needs its own food.
Burhan Sonmez -
Hollywood must recognize that LGBT people are worthy of depictions crafted with care and humanity, and we should be part of the stories they tell.
Sarah Kate Ellis -
Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.
Michael Scott -
Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.
Ernest Hemingway