Top 1200 Horror Stories Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.

I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.

Stories, we all have stories. Nature does not tell stories, we do. We find ourselves in them, make ourselves in them, choose ourselves in them. If we are the stories we tell ourselves, we had better choose them well.

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on.

Before 'Fallen,' I'd written love stories and more love stories. I'd fallen in love with love stories - but they were also beginning to feel just a little bit too insular, too small.

Here's the weird thing about me. I was never one to tell you stories about me. I was always the guy who others told stories about. I was like that up until I was 35 years old. And then I started telling stories about me onstage.

When I heard the stories of both my movies, I liked them. These are the kind of stories that I enjoy.

I hope that when children read my stories that they evoke images for children. I four stories can help children use their own imaginations and lead them to act the stories out or to embark on related research, they will learn more and learn to love reading more.

There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.

Ultimately ... it's not the stories that determine our choices, but the stories that we continue to choose.

Stories are one of the greatest gifts we can give to our children. Stories are equipment for life.

I watch every horror film that comes out in theatres. I watch every horror film that's on Netflix.

A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.

One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.

Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.

I noticed that some of my deadness was being replaced by an intense feeling about the Greek stories and the Bible stories. They were similar. There was something naked about these stories. Terrible things happened, and then some more terrible things.

We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.

Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.

I personally tend to be drawn to stories that aren't paid much attention to, or stories that aren't on people's radar.

Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories.

The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.

Stories have inspired me all my life. I like reading about what other people have done and it inspires me to share my own stories, and encourage people to make their own life stories.

"That was horrible. Horrible. That poor little guy." Pex was unrepentant. "Yeah, well, he asked for it. Calling us... all those things." But buried alive?! That's like in that horror movie. Y'know the one with all the horror." "I think I saw that one. With all the words going up on the screen at the end?" "Yeah, that was it. Tell you the truth, those words kinda ruined it for me."

I think most people aren't really privy to how stories are developed and what stories are - make it to the front page or to the mainstream media, whether it's in print or in broadcast. And I think they'd be shocked and disappointed to see some of the bias that exists in some of the stories that don't get told - or the manner in which they are told.

I think more than comedy, probably more than straight drama, I like horror. And horror I think I'm particularly good at. It's a mistake a lot of directors make, especially young directors. They always want to make the kind of movies that they most admire and aren't necessarily sensitive to what they have the best skill set for.

Screaming. Did I mention the screaming? Screaming is usually associated with horror films and roller coasters. This is why I usually look like I've just watched a horror film on a rollercoaster. Kids love to scream. Frightened, happy, bored. They scream. I've actually learned to love the sound of a vacuum cleaner. It's just so peaceful.

Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories.

Rather an end in horror, than horror without end. He could not condemn principles he might need to invoke and apply later. The wolf cannot help having been created by God as he is, but we shoot him all the same if we have to. The great player in diplomacy, as in chess, asks the question,Does this improve me?, not look at the possible fringe benefits If you can't have what you like, you must like what you have.

What a great unifier getting scared is. Not in an actual threatening, real-world way, but getting scared from horror movies or haunted houses or ghost stories. You laugh because it's a release. People laugh when they're nervous. I laugh so much at a haunted house. It's out of fear, but it's also a wonderful release. Getting scared like that, you feel good, and you feel exhilarated afterwards.

When I was about twenty-one, I published a few poems. Maybe I wrote a couple of stories before, but I really began to write stories in my mid-thirties. My kids were still little, and they were in school and day care, and I had begun to think a lot about wanting to tell some stories and not being able to do it in poetry.

Great stories happen all around you every day. At the time they’re happening, you don’t think of them as stories. You probably don’t think about them at all. You experience them. You enjoy them. You learn from them. You’re inspired by them. They only become stories if someone is wise enough to share them. That’s when a story is born.

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail.

People love stories; they use stories to make sense of the world.

I've been writing big stories of history, but there are a lot of fascinating little stories.

All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.

I love short stories, but I've never had the impulse to write one. Same for ghost stories.

Stories are living and dynamic. Stories exist to be exchanged. They are the currency of Human Growth.

I love stories, and my life is principally concentrated on stories, but not with a pretense of scientific precision.

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

NXT is unpredictable, and they are not afraid to tell a lot of different stories and compelling stories.

The best stories, the most-fun 'Avengers' stories, explore the relationships between the characters.

Sad to think that we won't have any new stories from John Updike, one of the last century's masters. But so many here in the two volumes of his collected stories, 186 by my count, stories to read, reread, savor over the course of a cold season. Updike's genius in the short form spills out of these many, many pages.

I listened to a lot of stories when I was a kid. My mother told me stories, and I loved them.

Stories come from violence, they come from sex. They come from death. They come from the dark places that everyone has to go to, kind of wants to, or doesn't, but needs to deal with. If you raise a kid to think everything is sunshine and flowers, they're going to get into the real world and die. That's the reason fairy tales are so creepy, because we need to encapsulate these things, to inoculate ourselves against them, so that when we're confronted by the genuine horror that is day-to-day life we don't go insane.

To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so numerous at Laguna Pueblo when I was growing up. I learned to read as soon as I could because I wanted stories without having to depend on adults to tell or read stories to me.

What I enjoy the most is portraying villains like a vampire, a serial killer, a supernatural creature, etc... That's when I have the most fun, creating those roles. I also love playing the hero in horror movies, because then I get to really be believable, truthful to feel the terror, the scariness, the horror, and be able to really transmit that to the audiences watching the movie or that TV series.

From Ernest Hemingway's stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a surprise.

Writing short stories was kind of like I was cheating the whole time, in some way. I went back and forth between writing the novels and sort of sneaking out to work on stories occasionally. These stories were written over the last 10 years or so, as I was taking breaks from the novels I've written.

People will always tell stories. The publishing industry might vanish, but not stories.

I love 'Child's Play 2!' I love Don Mancini. That movie has a great theme: You better listen to children. That's why I wanted to do it. I was scared to do a horror movie - a blatant studio horror movie - but I liked the script, and I thought that was such an important theme because I don't think adults listen to children enough.

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail

The stories are success stories. The letters from listeners often touch the heart and can be inspiring.

There's definitely a fascination with crime stories and stories of characters acting out against authority.

In junior high I read a lot of Stephen King, whose Americana approach to writing was often about "the terror next door" and at the same time I was reading a lot of Clive Barker, who was on the other end of the horror pendulum: insidious and disturbingly psychological. I found it fascinating how these two authors came at horror from two totally different perspectives.

An important part of building a new culture was allowing people to complain about their past. At first, the more they complained, the worse the past would seem. But by venting, people could start to resolve the past. By bitching and bitching and bitching, they could exhaust the drama of their own horror stories. Grow bored. Only then could they accept a new story for their lives. Move forward.

The best stories you usually hear are stories that people feel some type of urgency about.

From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

We've all heard stories about poker players grinding it out for two days straight. Believe me; I've got stories like that of my own. But the bottom line is that these stories usually don't have great endings. That's because the mind starts playing tricks after a marathon poker session, especially after a losing session.