Top 1200 Stories Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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

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

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

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

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

I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.

We evolved to make sense of this nonlinear and unpredictable world with stories. These stories are often very powerful.

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

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

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

I look for a good story. Usually the best stories are the ones that are unbelievably true. 'Soul Surfer' is one of those stories.

I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.

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

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

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.

What's so valuable about HBO is they tell stories. We learn from stories.

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

People need stories; they want stories. They always will.

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

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

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

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

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

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

We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same.

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

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

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.

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

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

In the end all we have...are stories and methods of finding and using those stories.

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

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

I love stories and acting is a way to tell stories. Everyone assumes I've done it my whole life.

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

What I like in comedies are really two things: stories that are character-driven and stories that are rooted in authenticity.

Writers, good ones, don't tell stories. Characters show stories.

Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.

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.

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

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

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

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.

It's important to tell meaningful stories and to find new ways to communicate those stories to people.

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

I just feel so lucky to tell stories and make up stories and share them with people.

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

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

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

I just think that good stories are stories that reflect ourselves back at us and each other.

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.

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

When I tell stories about Iraq, the ones people react to are always the stories of violence. This is strange for me.

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

As human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by — so you’d better be careful what stories you tell yourself.