Stories Quotes - Page 10

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.

The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.

Second, there are so many magical places in books that you cant go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

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

There's always another story. There's more than meets the eye.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

With correction, and given the chance, 'Terra Nova' can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. 'Terra Nova' is the Hubble Telescope of television.

We heard stories about fakery and decoys at revivals. I never personally saw any trickery.

If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.

I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost as central to the novel as a major minor character, the passage of time and its effect on the characters in the story.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

I prefer to speak of 'interdimensionals' rather than 'extraterrestrials' because the latter has connotations of 'little green men' and all the other cliché responses. Nor does it tell the full story.

My first U.S. Open I think was just very special for me because that was sort of the beginning of what was a 'Cinderella' story for me.

There's fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be.

If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Your story is where you take it to, not where you start.

One of the ways to reincarnate is to tell your story.

There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

Anything is bearable if you can make a story out of it.

Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.

Your story is the greatest legacy that you will leave to your friends.It's the longest-lasting legacy you will leave to your heirs.

By telling my own story, I hope to help remove the stigma. It never should be something to hide.

I love meeting new people; I think everyone has a story to tell. We should all listen sometimes.