Stories Quotes - Page 45

I have a great story to tell and I tell it well. No holds barred.

It's too bad for us "literary" enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless -- pictures tell any story more effectively than words . . . If children will read comics . . . why isn't it advisable to give them some constructive comics to read?.

Women are hard and proud and stubborn-hearted, Their heads being turned with praise and flattery; And that is why their lovers are afraid To tell them a plain story.

For me, the greater purpose of the story is just to illuminate some pattern of human truth.

A good story can take you on a fantastic journey.

There are so many people I would love to meet and say thank you for posting their videos, because hearing their stories and everything comforted me.

Sensationalism sells: Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.

Media bias in editorials and columns is one thing. Media fraud in reporting 'facts' in news stories is something else. ...The issue is not what various journalists or news organizations' editorial views are. The issue is the transformation of news reporting into ideological spin, along with self-serving taboos and outright fraud.

The past is just a story we tell ourselves.

So you want to hear a story? Well, I used to know a whole lot of pretty interesting ones. Some of them so funny you'd laugh yourself unconscious, others so terrible you'd never want to repeat them. But I can't remember any of those. So I'll just tell you about the time I found that lost thing.

I'm interested in telling the character's story, not my beliefs, political or otherwise.

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.

Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.

I have to sing it every night, I can't get up on stage if it's some bullshit story.

To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.

Out of the ­10,000 news stories you may have read in the last 12 months, did even one allow you to make a better decision about a serious matter in your life?

Story isn't a flight from reality but a vehicle that carries us on our search for reality.

Boy, do I got some stories to tell.

As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.

Most love stories are nocturnal. That's what makes them so fascinating.

I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation.

Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.

The real story of Detroit [...] can be summed up in seven words. Private enterprise built it, government destroyed it.

A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts.

Only one way to cover a story like this, and make that a double, bartender, please.