Stories Quotes - Page 46

Actually, there is no way of making vomiting courteous. You have to do the next best thing, which is to vomit in such a way that the story you tell about it later will be amusing.

Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?

Don't ever let anyone else write your story for you.

We owe it to each other to tell stories.

I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.

Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy.

By not speaking you don't get rid of the story, you just open up a silence, which can be just as loud.

Without devotion any life becomes a stranger's story...told for the body to forget what it once loved.

You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows.

I want you to hear how I can tell stories. I want you to hear how I can make these records about these females and make them feel every way I can. I want you to feel my magic. I want you to respect me and my artistry.

Because I come from the theater, I use the images of the theater and of movies a great deal when I write. I see the story in my head. I have to break down the outline of a story first. I have to know where I'm going. Usually I have a good beginning and a good ending, and then I think, "Now I have to find my way through it."

Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.

I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances.

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.

The villain of any story is often the most compelling character.

Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too.

everybody has a story to tell

The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story.

More and more of our finest actors are finding room for themselves in the world of television - but I truly believe it's because some of the best stories are being told there.

Perfume is a story in odors, sometimes a poetry of memory

I'm always looking for a fresh perspective because it's fun to tell stories that are original and new in some way.

I've always liked working on stories that combine people who are relatable with something insane.

When you can tell the story and it doesn't bring up any pain, you know it is healed.

It's the same story as when we nationalized the banks. I'm not for nationalization because of the rhetoric of nationalization, or because I see in nationalization the cure-all for every injustice. I'm for nationalization in cases where it's necessary.

The American underground punk scene, though, is a story worth remembering.