Stories Quotes - Page 56

Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.

...Our stories are drive by who we are and what we do, and not by the events that happens to us.

This is a classic story of the friendship between humans and cats. Yes. I got in a lie right from the start!

The only one interested in hearing your sad story is . . . you; and even you wish you didn't have to relive it again!

I'm usually trying to react to what the actors are coming up with. And then the environment, and then the story.

If somebody tells you an obviously untrue story, on the Continent you would remark, "You are a liar, Sir, and a rather dirty one at that." In England you just say "Oh, is that so?" Or "That's rather an unusual story, isn't it?

Great marketing is all about telling your story in such a way that it compels people to buy what you are selling.

I think if you're artistic in any way, you're probably born with it. I guess it's a talent that can be learned here and there, but I think the instinct to tell a story or to create something happens maybe in the womb.

We're definitely going to hell. But we'll have all the best stories to tell

He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.

Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.

People become the stories they hear and the stories they tell.

It's hard to tell what people will do with the word and how they'll be circulating it but I think the storytellers and the stories themselves will always be there.

I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.

The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.

I think that the audience intuitively understands the idea of sampling and remixing stories. That's why electronic music is global.

But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.

The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.

I love talking to people and hearing their stories. Everyone's got their own story to tell, and when you sit down with someone and really talk to them, you can learn so much.

In all the history of the boxing game, you'll find no human interest story to compare with the life narrative of James J. Braddock.

The camera is an extension of yourself... Your story treatment may be subjective, but it is important to remain objective as to truth.

Writing stories is a kind of magic, too.

'Shrek 2' made over $120 million during its first week. In a related story, John Kerry asked Shrek to marry him.

If the story's there for it, if there's a reason for it, then I'm all for it. But if you throw in a barbed wire match just to do a barbed wire match, then it makes no sense to me.