Stories Quotes - Page 119

I believe clothing tell a story.

Everyone is more than what you see on the cover; we all run deep and have our story.

Here in L.A., you kind of get stuck in your own little dilemmas and your own little life, and hearing a story like Pocahontas' reminds you there's a bigger world out there, and there are so many more important things in life.

To me, a great love story is a great love story, and it doesn't matter what gender is involved.

I have heard a lot of stories - we're putting this in for the monitors, we've got this other set of records. This is a relatively new field, but they're getting better. They're getting more resources from the companies. At some point the factories say, okay, this is here to stay.

I know that obviously, that if you want to get the story, if you want to get close to somebody, if you want to find out what is really the truth or what's really interesting, you have to create a trust between these two things, between the journalist and the subject.

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.

I revise and revise and revise. I'm not even sure "revise" is the right word. I work a story almost to death before it's done.

If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable, rather than its literal narrative.

The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story.

Whether it's on top of a phone booth or a $200 million soundstage, it's about stories.

Toy Story we found, sorta by accident, because we didnt know what we were doing, the idea of being replaced by somebody. Everybody has that fear, or encounters this jealousy at some point.

I like small stories.

All love stories are the same.

The truth came slowly like a story told by people interrupting each other.

I think we take the history we want to take in order to back up the stories we want to hear.

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.

The framed tale is, in my opinion, one of the most natural ways to tell a story. If you think of it, the conceit of the frame-less story is actually the odd way of doing things. Without the frame, how do you know the context for a story?

Stories live forever. Storytellers don't.

To me, there are lots of different stories to tell and you usually find the best way to tell the one you are telling once you are in it.

The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present.

My passion is to tell stories that reflect humanity.

If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you.

I don't know any family that doesn't have a story somewhere. Besides, it you didn't have those things in life, you'd be so bland.

When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster...I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That's the story.