Top 1200 Life Story Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

And it's interesting, but I'm always interested in the story behind the story.

The easiest story to sell is the story we want to buy.

I can relate to historical characters or imaginary ones. It doesn't matter if a story takes place in the future or in the present, as long as the story is compelling.

When you feel moved by the story, you want to tell that story.

I like having my own story remain my story.

In every story I've written with Batman, there's an element of justice - you never want to have the story end on a defeatist or a cynical note.

The most important thing is the story. Not the script, but the story.

I just try to write the best story I can, a story I would love to read, and hope that readers feel the same.

I could never have a mistress, because I couldn't bear to tell the story of my life all over again.

I really don't look up to anybody that is doing that great in life, because I don't know their story.

I guess that's the story of life: what you most fear never happens, but what you most yearn for never happens either. This is the difference between life and fiction. I suppose it's a good trade-off. But I'm not sure.

Maybe our telling of the story wasn't as clear as it should have been, but I don't think that's true. In terms of understanding the story, it comes across.

When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood; like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard powerless to stop it. It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you are telling it, to yourself or to someone else.

But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story?

The Story of My Life is drinking cups of tea, eating coco pops and playing Playstation.

A story-a true story-can heal as much as medicine can.

I've always been into 'fast-paced, don't bore 'em, keep it moving along, stick with the story.' You know: tell a story the way I want to hear a story. I find it more rewarding to write for kids, but I also find it a little easier, because you can just let loose a little bit more in terms of fantasy and stuff.

You can just say the word "hair" to a woman, and she tells you the story of her life.

I've lived enough of my life story to know this- Fate writes the book, but you make the movie.

Every love story is a potential grief story.

My story is just my story, and it's not nearly as traumatic as some.

I was born into long odds. I know what the David versus Goliath story is. My life has been that.

One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe it is supposed to be based around a story.

Both costume and fashion are about telling a story, except that in a ballet the story has already been written by the composer or the librettist.

For the Supreme Court, the right for everyone to say 'I do' is where the story ends, but for artists, it's where the story just starts to get interesting.

When I was doing 'Baahubali 2,' the story was being discussed with many people. The story evolved over 9-10 months in that way.

The best story is the story that gets to the most people.

Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.

In Washington, the ostensible story is rarely the real story.

Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life.

Every real story is a never ending story.

I believe in the story [ of Adam and Eve]. For me, it's a story.

I feel with this film that as long as we tell Philomena's story and as long as we're true to her, which Jeff and Steve have already done by writing the story... we must not sell her short;. She's a most remarkable woman and all my concern was that we must be absolutely true to her story.

My story is the story of forgotten people and the voice of the voiceless.

I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.

Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.

There are certain scenes, certain hills and valleys and groves of pines which demand that a story shall be written about them. I would refine; I would say that the emotions aroused by these external things reverberating in the heart are indeed the story; or all that signifies the story....We translate a hill into a tale, conceive lovers to explain a brook, turn the perfect into the imperfect.

Slobberknocker: My Life in Wrestling' is really not a wrestling book. It's a book about life, and there's a great love story in this book. There are great life lessons in this book about not allowing others to define you.

Every life has a love story, even though the beloved may be imaginary, or a cat.

Know the story before you fall in love with your first sentence. If you don’t know the story before you begin the story, what kind of a storyteller are you? Just an ordinary kind, just a mediocre kind – making it up as you go along, like a common liar.

I long To hear the story of your life, which must Take the ear strangely.

For me, Chanel just makes sense - like a story or a film. It's part of my life.

Every day is a new opportunity to make your life a story worth telling.

I look at the story and see what I have got to do in the film. Sometimes the story is great, set-up is good but there isn't much for you to do. I don't want to do that.

But this is a story, and in a story there is always someone beautiful enough." - 'The Girl with Two Skins' from A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects

I am a huge fan of biographies. What I'm always looking for is a story. I want a story I have never heard from anyone else.

There is only one type of story in the world-your story.

My dream role? I think to play Sammy Davis Jr. and his life story.

That's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough.

A manager's story, like the story of a player, is unpredictable.

I've long been obsessed with the fantastical and sometimes unbelievable story of the life and death of Rasputin.

Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopaedia, your life story.

I like to share my story with children, and they are amazed by the story.

Every story you tell is your own story.

It's kind of hard to tell your life story and state all facts and it still be sweet.

I have my own story, and I love my story, but I know I can't tell it alone, not now. Because stories have centers, but they don't have edges. No boundaries.

Social Media begins with a story - your story.

For me a film is at its best when you can start filling in the story with your own life experience.

The story you choose to tell isn't always the story you believe.

'Night They Missed the Horror Show' is my signature story. It changed my life, so it remains my favorite.