Stories Quotes - Page 48

In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.

My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea market.

With photography, I like to leave a lot of the story, even to myself.

Behind each number is a person, a victim, whose individual story is ghastly.

History is little more than the story of man's sin, and the daily newspaper a running commentary on it.

Humans know when it's not a good story. Unless you do this for a living, you may not know exactly why you don't like a story, but you can't fool an audience ever. They know when you have it and they know when you don't.

It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.

I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.

If you walk across my camera I will flash the world your story.

History breaks down into images, not into stories.

No, I only like whether I like the story or not, essentially see something in it that isn't completely there.

The story is not in the plot but in the telling.

The Big Bang, the formation of sars and planets, the origin and evolution of life on this planet, the advent of human consciousness and the resultant evolution of cultures - this is the story, the one story, that has the potential to unite us, because it happens to be true.

We are embedded in the great evolutionary story of planet Earth, the spare, elegant process of mutation and selection and bricolage. And this means that we are anything but alone.

The Romans did not see [the tale of Romulus, Remus and the she-wolf] as a charming story; they meant to show that they had imbibed wolfish appetites and ferocity with their mother's milk.

I have absolutely no interest in playing the young male lead around which a story happens.

We talked--recent history only--and Lucas relayed the story of how Francis came to be his roommate. "He showed up at the door one night, demanding to be let in. Napped on the sofa for an hour, then demanded to be let out. It turned into a nightly ritual, with him staying longer and longer, until at some point I realized he'd moved in. He's basically the most brazen squatter ever.

Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts to make even before it's popular. So audiences will not be drawn to the technology; they'll be drawn to the story. And I hope it always remains that way.

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out. Once you know what the story is and get it right — as right as you can, anyway — it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. Or criticize it.

The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.

... If we don't tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won't believe it.

You can't really learn God's hope like you learn the logic of an argument or the details of a story. It's more like learning to belly laugh. You catch hope from someone who has it down in their gut.

I can sort of do what I want. Maybe I have to work harder to prove myself in some new relationship because they've heard some wacky stories about me. But at least I can get the meeting.

I mostly write short stories. They are best written in a continuous creative process. You have a feel of immediacy.

He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.