Stories Quotes - Page 149

And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book.

Sometimes fairy stories may say best what's to be said.

Goldie [Hawn] is one of the sharpest ladies I've ever worked with. She doesn't miss a thing. She's my greatest audience. She laughs at all my stories and in the right places, too.

I told a story with the E Street Band that was bigger and better than I could have done on my own.

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.

Find advocates! Having advocates and people who will tell your story for you will only help you get noticed faster by more people.

It's hard to hear the story of a love affair between two straight men, one of whom is the most divine woman alive.

Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.

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

Iliad by Homer is one of the great stories in literature. And I thought its themes really resonated today, whether that was my projection or Homer's intentions. It didn't seem like we had come very far.

Tell your story. That's the secret of immortality. The one true way to live forever.

There are no war stories. I ended up a bombardier, but I never got overseas. And it wasn't because I was playing baseball either. It was just a series of things that went on.

But we weren't a phenomenon like the Beatles or Elvis Presley or the Rolling Stones: We were only as good as our last hit. We lived on our music and couldn't slide on anything - and this show is that story.

When I started out as a model, I took things for granted. Because I bagged work thanks to my looks, I didn't give my body any importance. I was a couch potato who'd eat anything. Then, in 2005, a tabloid ran a story calling me fat. I thought, 'I'm famous. How can I be fat?' It was a slap. I decided to get fit.

There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.

Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories.

I travel so much on stories, so I don't take vacation much, but one place I go back to again and again is my ranch.

People are over 20 times more likely to remember a story than a series of facts and figures. A good story touches our hearts.

I'm not a natural story-teller. Put a keyboard in front of me and I'm fine, but stand me up in front of an audience and I'm actually quite shy and reserved.

Our stories are different; our pain is the same.

I don't have no story. Everybody wants this Hollywood story, but the world don't owe you nothing, man. It's what you owe the world.

Anyone, any type of story, it doesnt have to be a crime victim, you dont have to let yourself be food for the media.

The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime

I love films. I love music. I love poetry and stories. All of that I feel… I sort of get very excited and fed by.

A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement. It's more like if you did an illuminated novel. I think both of those things should be running at full blast, not less of both so it becomes an easier thing. I think it should be twice as dense. That's just what interests me.