Stories Quotes - Page 70

Every object tells a story if you know how to read it.

I'm still interested in perfecting whatever talents I have and continuing to grow as an actor and continuing to be useful to the telling of the story.

At the core of investigative journalism is exactly the same thing that drives a page-turning thriller: telling a great story.

Every time you finish something ... you figure you've finally learned to write, right? Then you start something else and it turns out you haven't. You have learned how to write that story, or that book, but you haven't learned how to write the next one.

There are no really new stories anymore.

If anything, it was a very egotistical thing because I wanted to move people. I wanted to tell a story and move people.

When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world.

Hills tell old stories. Cliffs are poets with harps.

Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.

Use every customer point of contact to weave stories about who you are and what your brand stands for.

If you put your personal stories out there people always connect.

A story has been thought to its conclusion when it has taken its worst possible turn.

A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle.

The best way to make a long story short is to stop listening.

Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.

And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things keep going on, they overlap and blur, your story is part of your sister's story is part of many other stories, and there is no telling where any of them may lead.

Not an easy story but an important one. Compelling, powerful and engaging.

I did a film called 'Fort McCoy,' based on a true story of one of the few internment camps during WWII that was actually in the United States.

The facts didn't matter. Their stories mattered, and each of their stories belonged to each of them alone.

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me.

People who live great stories know failure isn’t a judgment, it’s an education.

If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation.

Great stories move through fear.

'9 to 5,' that little song, that little story, just won't ever end. Just like 'I Will Always Love You,' it just keeps comin' back, popping up its head in one way or another.

The real story is that I am very free, that I've managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.