Top 1200 Scary Stories Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

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

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.

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.

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

People always - I think were surprised about me connecting with folks in small town Iowa. And the reason I did was - first of all, I had the benefit that at the time nobody expected me to win. And so I wasn't viewed through this prism of Fox News and conservative media making me scary. At the time, I didn't think seem scary, other than just having a funny name. I seemed young.

Writing stories, adopting other characters, making up fantastic stories and tales, this is a way of perhaps enhancing who I am. Writing stories takes a commonplace old life and makes it all somehow more interesting. And hopefully I can do that in a way that touches a lot of people in their lives, too.

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

I like fiction that deals with matters that are of burning importance to us in our private lives. And not all short stories are like that. In general, short stories - and maybe this is a little bit off-topic - but I think short stories have this bad association with, like, waiting rooms.

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

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

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

Great stories agree with our worldview. The best stories don't teach people anything new. Instead the best stories agree with what the audience already believes and makes the members of the audience feel smart and secure when reminded how right they were in the thirst place.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

In this universe, and this existence, where we live with this duality of whether we exist or not and who are we, the stories we tell ourselves are the stories that define the potentialities of our existence. We are the stories we tell ourselves.

I grew up in a family where the internalized understanding was that the kids were going to grow up into a better world. I worry, because I don't think my kids are going to have that. The world is very scary. The world would be scary without the choices the current administration made, but they just exacerbated it. And it ticks me off. I want my kids to have a good life.

You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.

Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not the villains of our own stories. In fact, it is quite the contrary: we play, and only play, the hero, and in the swirl of other people's stories, insofar as these stories concern us at all, we are never less than heroic.

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

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.

People write because it seems like it'll be an easier job than carpet laying, that they might meet more girls. And they write because the world strikes them as being a marvelous place, and they want to keep bringing that to everybody's attention. You know ~ a scary place, a menacing place, an exciting place because it's scary and menacing. But mainly, kind of glorious.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm not sure why, but I seem to be drawn to stories about abuses of power. But I'm also drawn, not so much to victims' stories, as stories that tend to show how power works. Because if you don't understand the criminals, you can't figure out how to stop the crimes.

I have never been able to understand the complaint that a story is "depressing" because of its subject matter. What depresses me are stories that don't seem to know these things go on, or hide them in resolute chipperness; "witty stories," in which every problem is the occasion for a joke; "upbeat" stories that flog you with transcendence. Please. We're grown ups now.

A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose it’s moorings or orientation... Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart larger.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

We are told not to privilege one story above another. All the stories must be told. Well, maybe that's true, maybe all stories are worth hearing, but not all stories are worth telling.

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.

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

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.

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