Stories Quotes - Page 58

And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings.

Usually when I'm making a movie, what I have in mind first, for the visuals, is how we can stage the scenes to bring them more to life in the most interesting way, and then how we can make a world for the story that the audience hasn't quite been in before.

Lifting the Stanley Cup for the first time. There's nothing like it. It's the greatest story. In my era, they used to say you couldn't be a superstar without winning one. I remember thinking when I lifted it: "Now they can't say that about me."

A story isn't about a moment in time, a story is about the moment in time.

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

I like stories that leave you wanting more, leave you wondering, but don't tell you everything.

There are so many versions of every story because every storyteller tells the story differently.

If you look at the Bible as a whole, it's redemptive and beautiful, and it's God's love story to mankind.

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.

I like young girls. Their stories are shorter.

Caution is the lower story of prudence.

The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.

There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.

History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.

My favorite thing in the world is telling stories, and most of what I do is telling stories through music.

If you start to see more successful businesses that are playing on a global level, the story of Africa will begin to change

My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.

Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.

Once upon a time . . .” “In the beginning was . . .” That’s the way it always starts off. Every story, gospel, history, chronicle, myth, legend, folktale, or old wives’ tale blues riff begins with “Woke up this mornin’. . . .

When we cannot find a way of telling our story, our story tells us-we dream these stories, we develop symptoms, or we find ourselves acting in ways we don’t understand.

I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside.

My favorite movie is Closer and Love Story.

The easiest story to sell is the story we want to buy.

I think people should read fairy tales, because were hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.

Happy endings must come at the end of something,' the Walrus pointed out. 'If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for awhile.