Top 1200 Never Ending Story Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

There's the story, then there's the real story, then there's the story of how the story came to be told. Then there's what you leave out of the story. Which is part of the story too.

We know we cannot achieve our twin goals of ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity without ending poverty and creating equality for women and girls.

I never spoke out as a kid, I was never good at it as a kid, I was always too shy but I think I have a story and would like to be good at it and tell my story.

Matthew loved the magi. He gave their story more square inches of text than he gave the narrative of the birth of Jesus. He never mentions the shepherds or the manger, but he didn't want us to miss the star and the seekers. It's easy to see why. Their story is our story.

A true artist is driven by the never-ending desire to create.

Innovation is the never-ending search for better solutions

I want my commitment to ending girl marriage to be equal to my commitment to ending apartheid.

I always carry a notepad with me, even on vacation. If I'm on the computer when the story 'hits', I open a Word document and start typing until I get it all out. I've got tons of notes that I never throw out. You never know when a story will strike!

If your subject is crime, then you know at least that you're going to have a real story. If your subject is the maturing of a college boy, you may never stumble across a story while you're telling that. But if your story is a college boy dead in his dorm room, you know there's a story in there, someplace.

A big mistake a lot of filmmakers do is they like, "We cut our whole ending to a Rolling Stones song." You better find a new ending then, because unless you have $2 million for that song.

The game of science can accurately be described as a never-ending insult to human intelligence.

It is a tough choice between ending up in the cold or ending up in a fiery blast.

Beginning with Santa in infancy, and ending with the Tooth Fairy as the child acquires adult teeth. Or, plainly put, beginning with all the possibility of childhood, and ending with an absolute trust in the national currency.

All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they're any good, the ending is a beginning.

The book is the book and it will always be there. It's a quiet ending. In the book it's a contemplative ending which I think you could certainly do that in a movie.

there never is a happy ending because nothing ever ends.

It's only a story, you say. So it is, and the rest of life with it - creation story, love story, horror, crime, the strange story of you and I. The alphabet of my DNA shapes certain words, but the story is not told. I have to tell it myself. What is it that I have to tell myself again and again? That there is always a new beginning, a different end. I can change the story. I am the story. Begin.

The biggest threat to your creativity is the fear that it's already been done, said, created. (So why bother?) Say it, do it, make it anyway - but tell YOUR story along the way. The story of how you came to know what you know. The story of what you want to know more of. The story of why you do what you do. The story of how you came to care. And that's how you create what's never been created before.

I hadn't written a love story before and I hadn't written a novel with a happy ending before.

You realize time isn't just a period that you tell a story within - it becomes a major character in the film. There is no beginning, middle, end because there is always stuff beginning and ending simultaneously.

Love is pointless. It’s the same sad sad story of with the same inevitable ending of miserable deterioration.

Sometimes, when I'm doing an interview, my delivery or my take on a story may lean a little feminine, depending on the story, but it's never intentional.

We think that we know people from this constellation of points: 'I know that story. I know that girl. I've heard that story a thousand times.' But actually, you never know that story.

To be true to life, a novel must have an ending that is inevitable given the specific personalities of the characters involved. The novelist must not impose an ending upon them.

I simply wanted a kiss. I was a freshman girl who had never been kissed. Never. But I liked the boy, he liked me, and I was going to kiss him. That's the story, the whole story, right there.

Life is an ongoing, never-ending process of re-creation.

The most questionable thing I did was make Superman a government agent. If this had been a Superman story, I'd never have done that - and I know that, because I have a Superman story I want to tell someday. In this story, Batman was the hero, so the world was built around him.

Success and happiness are not destinations, they are exciting, never-ending journeys.

Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement.

I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used when I have found the true story, the one story to which all these phrases refer. But I have never yet found the story. And I begin to ask, Are there stories?

Ministry burnout is a real problem because it's never-ending.

I think any athlete will tell you that season-ending losses stay with you for a long time. If you are one of the main reasons for a season-ending loss, it sticks with you longer.

You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next chapter's going to be. That's what makes it exciting.

I've never seen anyone say, 'Let's go get this person today; let's really ram it into him.' I've never seen it. If a Democrat or Republican commits some horrendous story, the story will run. The networks will cover it.

I never make a distinction between doing a film in Hollywood or doing a film independently. It's just the story. It's always the story for me. The constants are that it should challenge me and I shouldn't repeat myself. And the story should always be a story worth telling.

I never was the story. The story was the story. Period.

For a surfer, it's never-ending. There's always some wave you want to surf.

I loved writing 'Lost.' It was like a never-ending opera, in a way.

It's a never-ending process to try to make yourself the best person you possibly can.

The life of an artist is a continuous journey, the path long and never ending.

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.

Alafair Burke's first standalone is a must read! You'll lose yourself in this riveting story of Alice Humphrey, a woman whose nightmare begins when she goes to work at her new gallery job, only to find everything gone—and a murdered man on the floor. You can't guess the plot twists that follow, as Alice's whole word turns upside down and she has to question everyone and everything she thought was real. And the ending is a shocker you'll never see coming.

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.

My life is just a never-ending work in progress.

It's so easy to call something a Jewish story or a gay story or a woman's story. Aesthetically, if a story is not universal, it has failed. Your obligation is to the story. One rule creatively, and emotionally, is its universality.

People have been telling me I'm a failure and that I'm doing it all wrong for 20 years now. Never trust anybody when they tell you how your story goes. You know your story. You write your own story.

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. Don't wait for an inspired ending to come to mind. Work your way to the ending and see what comes up.

My first short story sale was to a magazine that sat on the story forever... and never did publish it.

Success comes when we wake up every day in that never-ending pursuit of why we do what we do.

Impermanence is not something to be afraid of. It's the evolution, a never-ending horizon.

Life is a never-ending stream of problems that must be confronted, surmounted, and/or solved.

Ending our reliance on fossil fuels was never going to be easy.

You want a happy ending, but not such a ridiculous happy ending that it doesn't mean anything to anybody.

I was free. Every day, when you're on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.

No." Mosca bit her lip and shook her head firmly. Books no longer seemed quite enough. I don’t want a happy ending, I want more story.

Excellence is not an accomplishment. It is a spirit, a never-ending process.

With empathy you know in your heart that it's not a sign of weakness to attempt to understand that the people we call terrorists have placed the same label on us, and that the use of force will create a counter force, a never-ending saga of killing and hate. Ending war involves cultivating empathy in our policies and the love of God in our hearts. As the Native Americans reminded us: No tree has branches so foolish as to fight among themselves.

Last, but not least -- in fact, this is most important -- you need a happy ending. However, if you can create tragic situations and jerk a few tears before the happy ending, it will work much better.

Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement.

There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal "Once upon a time.