Top 1200 Half The Story Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.

Am I really admitting that my sister is determined to marry a man she has only seen once and doesn't much like the look of? It is half real and half pretense - and I have an idea that it is a game most girls play when they meet an eligible young men. They just...wonder.

You don't always have to have the most amazing story. It's learning to share the story you have that counts.

If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.

I know a good story from a bad story. But when you have a really good story and they make it bad, I'll say to my wife, "Oh, tonight, I'm going to enjoy watching television because I did great, and wait until you see this." And then, they put it on and it's like - oh, that's not so good. They are fake news.

The story of humans is the story of ideas that shine light into dark corners.

I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story.

Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story.

When somebody tells you a story, as long as that story lasts, you're caught in this sort of timeless moment.

The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting something down on paper.

The Business story is designed to trigger the listener to take an effective action. If it doesn't, the story fails.

What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it.

But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.

I was in Siena and decided I wanted to write a story set there. Then I discovered that the original story of Romeo and Juliet was set in Siena. It occurred to me that this was too much of a gift - I had to do it. That's how I ended up writing a parallel story to Romeo and Juliet.

If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.

Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.

We are not the originators of the story. I think it's actually the opposite when you're an actor. You're telling somebody else's story.

When Colin Kaepernick refuses to stand for the anthem, that's both a sports story and a politics story.

I'm a Yugoslavian who loves America - my kids are Americans, you know. They're always going to be half and half because they were born here and, I hope, live here, but they will always have a background of Yugoslavian. I'm still a Serbian, but with an American lifestyle.

My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing the character.

Our biggest challenge is always story. The story is the ultimate thing you try to tackle.

For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done.

The story of getting better can be just as compelling as the story of falling apart.

The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation - This story begins and ends in joy.

I'm not at all sure dialogue is meant to advance the story; I know that sometimes it is the story.

And the Bible is not primarily a book of history. It is "His story," the story of God.

I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.

People are less focused on the story, and more on how the story is told.

A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.

Think back to the early rock n' roll records, and the average record length in the '50s - and well into the '60s - was two and a half minutes. It's very hard to put that much songwriting into two and a half minutes.

No matter what happens with technology or whether you're in traditional animation or stop-motion or CG, the biggest challenge always is story. The flow of making the movie is usually determined by how your story is coming together, and when your story is straining and you can't quite get your hands around it, your entire production is straining.

My father, Dennis Popham, was a very handsome, talented artist, and as my mother always reminds me, 'someone who had wonderful style.' He was half Samoan-German, half New Zealander, and their first date was to a Fleetwood Mac concert, which I love the thought of.

I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like the story.

When you write the story of two happy lovers, let the story be set on the banks of Lake Como.

From the beginning, the series has been story driven - I began with a story idea - but research feeds it.

After a sound drubbing followed by half a day's fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying; and, in half a while, all was forgotten and my wickedness began afresh and worse than ever.

That's a very real feeling - that I don't have a story to tell. I'm not a pure storyteller. I have a tough time with story.

The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is

I am guaranteeing you that if you see my byline on a story, it's going to be the cleanest story you've ever read.

I have got my story. Adoptees rarely get our stories. We only know what we are told. I don't even have my story, really. My mother won't tell me. She won't tell me who my father is. She won't tell me the story of my birth.

A pessimist looks at his glass and says it is half empty; an optimist looks at it and says it is half full.

Story is the oldest, commonest, most beloved, and most effective form of communication because our life is essentially a story. That's why the Bible is the most realistic of religious books. We can easily ignore or argue away abstractions, but we bump up against concretely real people, things, and events in story, as in life.

In fact, I don't even know myself. That is the big secret of the story. That there is no story.

I have always wanted to tell my story - or, more to the point, my side of the story.

I choose this story above all others because it's a story I'm struggling to end.

The story of the Amazon is a story that has been told by Europeans, you know, by Germans, by Canadians, by Americans.

I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It's hard to memorize objectives, but it's easy to remember a story.

The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

Every story I do is about people. It's my survival instinct - one person, one story.

I made the film to bring the story of Islam, the story of 700 million of people, to the West.

While 'Precious' isn't a real person, it's someone's story, and it's too many peoples' story.

San Suu's story will always involve politics, but the essence is the love story.

The hardest part is telling one's story. Once the story is on the page, the rest will come.

What I have to write, the story, it is always going on in my mind. What incidences I can add in the story - it is a continuous process.

Trust me, I'm telling you stories. ... I can change the story. I am the story.

The story fails but your faith in the importance of doing the story doesn't fail.

You learn to do your best writing on story rather than off story. Very often at the beginning of their careers, writers including me do their best dialogue writing off story - the best lines, the best observations - but they haven't got enough to do with the plot to stay in.

I work out in the Caribbean for half the year, playing a detective who's really into science. Anybody who knows me will tell you that's a dream come true. But it's tough for my family. We only get to see each other every two and a half to three weeks.

Script wise, the story of 'Eega' is universal. It's a simple story which everyone can understand.