Top 1200 Stories Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

It sounds corny, but I think people need stories to process the world. That's our business. That's the job we're in. We tell stories.

Because some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta dance to the music if you want to stay ahead

I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.

In making up stories, as in reading stories, I could create a contained world in which an experience is shared in its entirety.

Every woman should have a daughter to tell her stories to. Otherwise, the lessons learned are as useless as spare buttons from a discarded shirt. And all that is left is a fading name and the shape of a nose or the color of hair. The men who write the history books will tell you the stories of battles and conquests. But the women will tell you the stories of people's hearts.

Stories aren't about things. Stories are things. Stories aren't about actions. Stories are, unto themselves, actions.

The only reason we find structure in stories is because it's there naturally in human interaction, and in the way that people tell stories.

I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.

When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God's. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole.

History is beautiful stories or scary stories, yeah.

I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.

Everyone has stories but they don't know how to tell these stories.

We want to make sure the stories that show up in Path are both good stories and are a big part of people's lives.

I'm always excited about stories that allow me to explore a character and create interesting stories and worlds that we haven't seen before.

I have always wanted to tell stories. Even as a classical dancer, I revel in telling stories through my dance.

You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed.

'Monkeys' is made up of nine short stories that tell an overall story. 'Folly' is a series of vignettes all put together to tell a larger story. In 'Lust and Other Stories,' there are nine stories - three, three, three; the beginnings of love, the middles, and the afters.

I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read.

I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That's kind of what I did.

The stories in 'Parenthood' are so much the stories of our lives. And the people who have worked on the show feel very connected to these characters.

I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea of writing a novel seems impossible.

My life isn't very racy or exciting so I make things up, tell stories. I like telling stories.

Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.

We interpret the world through stories... everybody makes in their own way sense of things, but if you have stories it helps.

We speak of stories ending, when in truth it is we who end. The stories go on and on.

Do goofy stories make people nice? What if, in their goofiness, these stories somehow inspire that in the right way. Is that a social good?

If you're a writer, you know that the stories don't come to you - you have to go looking for them. The old men in the lobby: that's where the stories were.

I don't want to do stories that don't have a heart. I'm just not going to be satisfied with stories where I can't be passionate about the subject, where I can't make a difference.

I admire the ballad form most of all. Stories are irresistible. I've always had a passion for stories, the endings being of particular importance.

I think it's why we're able to look at with comic book stories or origin stories, why is it that we can keep retelling these stories over and over? And hopefully it's because it hits something so universal and so primal inside of us that we actually yearn for that same story over and over. But toned and different form, and updated and modernized, and I can go into the specifics.

I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.

You've got to support male stories and healthy male relationships and things. You can't just be a woman that is only want to support female stories or a guy that's only wanting to support guy stories. It needs to all mix again.

All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.

Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.

There is no particular source my stories come from. The stories always seem to be there waiting for me, though sometimes shrouded in mist and fog.

Immigrant stories are good stories for everyone to know.

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories.

I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.

People become the stories they hear and the stories they tell.

Stories are how we learn best. We absorb numbers and facts and details, but we keep them all glued into our heads with stories.

A lot of people would write to me long stories from their lives, and I felt they were thinking of me as some sort of treasure chest to keep their secrets. I felt like sometimes they would tell me stories they wouldn't tell anybody else in the whole world. And I loved these stories.

Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.

I don't think we'll ever lose the desire for people to tell stories or to hear stories or to be entrapped in a beautiful story.

You have to be driven by the stories that you want to tell. You can't simply be responding, or there won't be any real heart to those stories anymore.

If you're a writer you know that the stories don't come to you, you have to go looking for them. The old men in the lobby: that's where the stories were.

Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those stories. And literate.

The secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably... in the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn't. And yet you want to know again.

In terms of 'Beyond the Lights' and 'Belle,' they're definitely stories about identity. They're female empowerment stories. So I'm exploring that through my work.

I feel that, as a person of color, I've always been interested in the stories that are quiet and the stories that often get overlooked.

I do think we have a responsibility to be aware of the stories we're telling and how those stories will be interpreted and what sorts of value systems we're celebrating.

We are storied folk. Stories are what we are; telling and listening to stories is what we do.

We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.

A lot of stories that have fascinated me are tabloid stories that have come from other newspapers, like 'The New York Times.'

Told a lot of stories as a child. Not 'Once upon a time' stories but, basically, outright lies. I loved lying and getting away with it!

There is no universal gay experience. All stories are relevant, and all stories are needed.

The Maigret stories are all very different in terms of the content and the way that the stories are told. They're not what I would call formulaic.

I was never cold-blooded enough to look for a gap in the market. I loved stories and wanted to tell stories that should be told.

I'm a storyteller. I'm not like any other comic. I tell detailed stories - not made-up stuff, but true stories.

The 'X-Men' stories are the stories of outsiders: people who don't fit into normal society and are ostracised; it's a metaphor for gender, race, or sexual orientation.