Stories Quotes - Page 60

You can insist on a different end to the story.

I am still attracted to stories about people who are considered to be on the outside of society. I still seek inspiration from those stories.

When we try to describe the truth with words, we distort it and it's no longer truth--it's our story. The story may be true for us, but that doesn't mean it's true for anyone else.

I just want to make sure I could tell my story the way I want to tell it. I just want to own my truth.

I think continuity is the devil. I think it's constricting and restrictive, I think it's alienating and off-putting, and it inflicts an artifact of linear time as we experience it on something that exists outside of linear time as well as keeps new readership away by keeping comics a matter of trivia and history rather than actual stories.

A story comes to you; it isn't like you choose it. You have no real control.

Good and bad - this is the story of my life.

The poem is in my hands, and can run stories through her hands.

Not only is a good prank harmless, but, like a good story, it reveals an essential truth that would otherwise be hidden.

With everything you do as an actor, you obviously know the full story. But the person watching it doesn't, necessarily. So, you just have to discipline yourself to wipe the slate clean as you go along.

When I'm anchoring, I miss chasing stories in the field.

Everyone has their story. Everyone has issues. You have to face your fears.

Libraries hold the wisdom of the world and the stories of the ages - available to everyone, free of charge!

The biggest thing I worry about is the unsubstantiated story. You have to tell the people what you know -- and acknowledge what you don't know.

You have to go where the story is to report on it. As a journalist, you're essentially running to things that other people are running away from.

Telling stories on behalf of brands is what I've done all my life.

I'm not interested in telling a story in my photographic work. I'm more interested in freezing certain moments in time.

When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write a parable or make a point.

I do watch 'Revenge,' 'American Horror Story' and 'Game of Thrones.' I am behind on all of them. But I do watch them. Those are my go-to shows.

I think the thing I really got from Ginsberg was that you can tell a story through kind of painting pictures with words. And when I found out that you could have a profession doing that, it was thrilling to me. It just became my passion immediately, playing with words and poetry.

Everyone goes down the aisle with half the story hidden.

We only hear success stories. You don't hear about the hundreds and hundreds - the overwhelming majority that don't go anywhere. This is a more realistic portrayal of what happens in startups.

One of the main reasons is that most Sunday school curricula only teaches disconnected Bible stories. They don't teach how we know the Bible is true, how to defend the faith, and how to answer the skeptical questions of today.

I love not being in a comfortable state, anyway. That makes for much more interesting storylines and an interesting story.

There is no feeling to be compared with the feeling of having written and finished a story.