Stories Quotes - Page 35

Words are clamor-filled shells. There's many a story in the miniature of a single word!

You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.

The short story is the art form that deals with the individual when there is no longer a society to absorb him, and when he is compelled to exist, as it were, by his own inner light.

The best way to spoil a good story is by sticking to the facts.

Behind every crime is a story of sadness.

No matter how many times you forget it, you can turn around and help someone. Or you can deliver a positive message or share with someone or just listen to someone share their story with you, it's just the best gift there is. And it's free.

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.

In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.

Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.

I've got stories untold & maps to unfold, but everyday I get where I'm going

For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.

Gratitude is what we are without a story.

Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that's been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand ourselves and our surroundings.

Whenever you listen to a piece of music, what you are actually doing is hearing the latest sentence in a very long story you’ve been listening to - all the pieces of music you’ve ever heard.

All good, clean stories are melodrama, it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.

When God means you to be a healer he sends you patients; when he makes you a teacher he sends you pupils; when he destines you to be a Master he sends you stories.

When a man jumps out of a ten-story building, he doesn't break the law of gravity, he demonstrates it.

The public still repeats, time after time, the silly story that at Wannsee the extermination of the Jews was arrived at.

Everybody has their own story, everybody has their own journey.

Ultimately ... it's not the stories that determine our choices, but the stories that we continue to choose.

I'll be a story in your head. But that's OK. We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Because it was, you know; it was the best.

Overnight success stories take a long time.

There are some ghost stories in Japan where - when you are sitting in the bathroom in the traditional style of the Japanese toilet - a hand is actually starting to grab you from beneath. It's a very scary story.

Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns.