Stories Quotes - Page 144

I carry the landscape inside me like an ache. The story of who I am cannot be severed from the story of the flatwoods.

What I love about Gaga is her story, where she came from. Before she made it, before anyone knew who she was, I knew who she was and, to see her finally make it, I was so happy. If we were to work together that would be cool.

Fairytales are stories that span every generation and they've been around for a long time.

When you're living through it, though, especially when you are twelve and you think the whole world is changing until you realize it isn't the world, it's you, no piece seems little. It's all so big you think it can kill you. But it doesn't. Which is why the story goes on.

In the digital age of "overnight" success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.

Stephen Schlesinger’s Act of Creation tells a dazzling story of the dramatic events that have shaped the world in which we live. Never has a book been more relevant to present dangers and future hopes.

I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.

Opera is something you have to educate yourself about. You have to make sure you understand the stories, what was happening politically, socially during the time these things were made and how they've changed through history.

There is a big difference between storytelling and being alive. Those are the two things that I prefer in life - telling stories and being alive.

Give me a story that just makes me unreasonably vigilant. Keep me up till five only because all your stars are out, and for no other reason.

History is the story of warfare between secret societies.

It is not a bad thing in a tale that you understand only half of it.

Be unswervingly and eternally loyal to the story.

The divine art is the story.

A story to me must have some surprise...I must have a passion to write the story.

Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.

I have never seen a film being as influenced by the incidents during its making as Highway. The adventures of our north Indian road journey has many stories to tell.

He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.

My dream roles since I was very young were Tony in West Side Story and Pippin. But, now I leave that for the youngsters.

Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.

Because here's the thing about a book: when you pick up a story, you put down your own.

I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.

...we all want to hear stories, from the moment we are born to the moment we die. Stories connect our little lives with the world around us and help us discover who we are.

A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.

Graves they say are warm'd by glory; Foolish words and empty story.