Top 1200 Good Story Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live.

I think people are tired of being slammed with foul language and sexual content that really has nothing to do with (telling a good story).

I always had a good dexterity. The story in my family goes that at the age of 3 I could thread needles faster than anybody.

People are not in good shape to where they have to question their own belief system because of a book or a story somebody wrote, or a SLAYER song.

I love intricate plotting and exciting twists, but I realize more that people enjoy a good story in a simple, focused way.

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

Great directors turn in mediocre work, and first-time directors turn in exceptional work. No matter how good a person can talk about what he wants, you never know. You just have to go with a good story and a script that you like and people that you like to work with.

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.

Too many times, people are hearing the story from the second floor. Nobody's heard the story from the basement.

Things that matter are a great story, entertainment, how the lead part moves the story forward and who the directors are.

Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they add up to the story of life.

A director can come from anywhere, but having a story background, if you have nothing else, is probably a good thing to have because it's really the one tool you need.

We want 'McMafia' to be a tense gangster story but also a family story. It's a collusion of those two worlds.

*I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago... *So soon you will be in that part of the book where you are holding the bulk of the pages in your left hand, and only a thin wisp of the story in your right. *We get one story, you and I, and one story alone....It might be time for you to go. It might be time to change, to shine out.

I carry the landscape inside me like an ache. The story of who I am cannot be severed from the story of the flatwoods.

I have a great little camera, and I had a theory that if the story is interesting, it doesn't matter what medium you shoot it on. You just have to make a good film.

In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story that you tell to others.

Anytime you have the opportunity to do any kind of story that is based on a true story, I think those are the most inspirational.

The short story ... is the most democratic of all the arts; anyone may tell a story, and if it is an absorbing one someone will listen.

I am now confident about attempting a Hindi film. I believe if you have a good story to tell, audiences will watch it.

Conversation on the page should reflect what the story is about. It doesn't have to be "realistic" in the sense that it's something you heard and plugged into a story.

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

In the story ["The Pyramid and the Ass"] there's this war against the so-called Buddhist Terrorists. As we find out, they're not really terrorists at all, just good folks trying to liberate people from technology and fight against an American government/corporation trying to coopt our souls. The inherent racism and Buddhist-phobia in the story plays into the present demonizing of Islam - and of our loss of knowledge about the great, spiritual history of the Sufis, for example, or the cultural heritage from the middle east.

I write a story in my head. I see the story like a movie.

They always compare my 'Crazy Story' to Meek's 'Tony Story.'

I think all artists have a different story to tell, and no story is the same.

Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.

I have a hard time keeping a story straight when I tell the truth because when you start lying you have to remember what you said, and I'm not very good at that.

I have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and to tell the story of oppressed peoples.

From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.

Why should I do a movie for dance? I can always do it on stage, and I'm doing it. However, if such a film with a good story comes my way, then I might probably do it.

It's hard to imagine that our love is a story with an end. But you know, at least I'm getting some really good songs out of it

The desire to hear a story, and a story well told, triumphs over Internet, film and television sometimes.

I've never looked at my career in terms of, What haven't I done that I want to do? I just generally find a story that I think is a good one and go to work

I've never looked at my career in terms of, What haven't I done that I want to do? I just generally find a story that I think is a good one and go to work.

After all, the nation is not just an entity. It's a story. It's a story of what's salient, what brought us together, what we are willing to live and die for.

Star-crossed lovers who have a destiny that isn't necessarily going to work in their favor - that's a universal story; that's an archetypal story.

Every artist has a central story to tell, and the difficulty, the impossible task, is trying to present that story in pictures

The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your story!

My story is the story of thousands of children from around the world. I hope it inspires others to stand up for their rights.

Every story is flawed, every story is subject to change. Even after it is set down to print, between covers of a book, a story is not immune to alteration. People can go on telling it in their own way, remembering it the way they want. And in each telling the ending may change, or even the beginning. Inevitably, in some cases it will be worse, and in others it just might be better. A story, after all, does not only belong to the one who is telling it. It belongs, in equal measure, to the one who is listening.

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.

Entertain, yes. That goes without saying. But a good writer does that automatically, it's built into the machine. Telling a thumpingly good, mesmerizing story is what one does without question. But beyond that, any writer worth his/her hire knows that all writing, one way or another, is subversive. It is guerrilla warfare against the status quo.

I'm a slave to the beats of the story, not to the words we use to tell the story.

As a filmmaker, you look for a story, and the story has to have conflict and a match of opposites.

When I approach a story or movie, the story is the most important thing.

One the reasons I talk about my story is I want other people who are in the circumstances I was in to understand they are just as good and as valuable as everyone else.

AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress.

If I write a fantastic story, I'm not writing something willful. On the contrary, I am writing something that stands for my feelings, or for my thoughts. So that, in a sense, a fantastic story is as real and perhaps more real than a mere circumstantial story. Because after all, circumstances come and go, and symbols remain.

No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

When I make film music, I'm a filmmaker first and foremost. It's about serving the needs of the film. You're telling a story; in a way, you stop becoming a composer and become a storyteller instead. You tell the story with the most appropriate themes. How you approach these things is a very personal matter, but your goal is to tell the story first.

Sometimes when you tell a story, you reach a little bit too far just to make the story a better one.

A story must be told in such a way that it constitutes help in itself. My grandfather was lame. Once they asked him to tell a story about his teacher. And he related how the holy Baal Shem used to hop and dance while he prayed. My grandfather rose as he spoke, and he was so swept away by his story that he himself began to hop and dance to show how the master had done. From that hour he was cured of his lameness. That's how to tell a story.

Courier 12 is the Type-O blood of fonts - works just as good for a 'N.Y. Times' op-ed as a screenplay or a short story.

Summer has come with the loveliness of a mother Heat, not warmth, now pours onto my face, aging me, taking me closer to death. Let it. I am here to live my story, to love my story. I will not fail to savor any gift out of a desire for self-preservation. Self-preservation is not a great virtue in this story.

Criticism changes with the fashion of the time. A story is always a story.

I always give money to a sidewalk con if the story is a good one, even if I don't believe a word of it. Art deserves to get paid.

Through centuries of struggle, Jews across the world have been witnesses not only against the crimes of men, but for faith in God and God alone. Theirs is a story of defiance and oppression, and patience in tribulation reaching back to the exodus and their exile. That story continued in the founding of the state of Israel. That story continues in the defense of the state of Israel.

Of course I want my films to look really good, but every single element is chosen for a reason. It's telling something in the story.

When I was eight years old, I played a story game with my younger brother and sister to help them fall asleep. The 'word-story game' was where they would choose a word and I would create a story. Acting and directing are similar to this game, where I am given the words then I fill in the life of the characters.