Stories Quotes - Page 117

I get some flak for and some resistance from colleagues for because I'm interested in storytelling. I mean what I like about songwriting is songs used to tell a story.

The Tonys ignored West Side Story. The Tonys ignored Gypsy. It's a kind of public humiliation.

I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe.

The stories we hear in our childhood are the ones we remember all our lives.

The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. they had become stories

It's different if you're a painter. You can hidethe ones that don't work. You can't do that with movies. They tellthe story of who you are at the time, and that's the wonderful thingabout it.

I have a reputation for doing superheroes, but I like all kinds of writing. In fact, hardly anybody knows this, but I've probably written as many humor stories as superhero stories.

Any story worth telling is worth embellishing.

Great design should tell a story.

I have to have an impact. That's what drives me to practice to make sure my words are clear and my stories are compelling. Right. Because it matters.

Stories are our attempts to share our values & beliefs with the hopes that we may attract those who believe what we believe. This is the basis of forming a trusting relationship. Story telling, therefor, is only worthwhile when it tells what you stand for, not what you do.

In Chinese love stories the one who loves always starts by borrowing a book from the beloved.

All of my stories are 95 percent truthful.

Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.

I'm the type to tell stories while letting myself go.

Science has an uncomfortable way of pushing human beings from center stage. In our prescientific stories, humans began as the focal point of Nature, living on an Earth that was the center of the universe. As the origins of the Earth and of mankind were investigated more carefully, it became clear that Nature had other interests beyond people, and the Earth was less central than previously hoped. Humankind was just one branch of the great family of life, and the Earth is a smallish planet orbiting an unexceptional sun quite far out on one arm of a run-of-the-mill spiral galaxy.

The only reason to buy a paper book any longer is to own it and cherish it and remember it and tell a story about it.

I'm a fan of horror movies that have really good stories.

There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts.

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.

I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11

I cry all the time. It's more like when didn't you cry. My friends are like, 'Oh God, she's sobbing again.' I cry if I'm happy, sad, normal... What really gets me is when I read a sad story about a child in the paper, especially at the moment with my hormones raging.

What I've learned is, if I have to go out and speak, the best way to get people's attention is to tell them a story, tell them a story that came from my corazón.

I see myself as a storyteller. So, when I read something, I see the story, and I see it on screen, in my head, in a certain way. I always want to see it and see me in it.

To really love a person completely is to come to a point where your stories are intertwined.