Stories Quotes - Page 47

There is no story unless you've written it.

The story of the subconscious mind can be told in three words: there is none.

I have to feel something emotionally on the story to be able to write for it. I turn things down if I don't feel I'm really right to tell that particular story.

My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.

Well I thought my razor was dull until I heard his speech, and that reminds me of a story that's so dirty I'm ashamed to think of it myself.

No one sees themself as the villain in their story.

I think there are many more stories still to be told about women.

People are not as one-dimensional as the stories about them.

The tabloids create their own stories about people's lives that don't exist.

& all your friends telling you stories that you often misinterpret and taint all the images of yo Mr Perfect

I've always said there are four words that every child in the world knows, and those are, "Tell me a story,." Even the people who wrote the Bible knew that. They told stories, like the story of Noah.

Once I have the story in my head, I write it down. The illustrations usually come last.

I’ve always loved fairytales, and I’ve loved the concept of, um, some of the best parts of a lot of stories are the beginning.

Life is not a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared.

the Empire State Building was tall. So what? Just proved New York builders didn't know when to stop at a good story.

A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them.

If we can forgive what’s been done to us... If we can forgive what we’ve done to others... If we can leave all of our stories behind. Our being villains or victims. Only then can we maybe rescue the world.

Everybody goes through a lot of the same things, and I talk about those, and that's the key. You have to connect with your audience, and I might take them on a trip with me, tell them I went here and I went there and they'll go with me, you know, to hear the stories.

In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.

Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum... The story is our escort. Without it we are blind... It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle.

Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.

The quest for the truth, in and of itself, Is a story that's filled with insights.

History is a story written by the finger of God.

Stories are the untested, uninvestigated theories that tell us what all these things mean. We don’t even realize that they’re just theories.

We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.