Stories Quotes - Page 76

No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child.

I like to make money, I like to have nice things. But I love to act, I love to tell stories.

For each of us, the only hope resides in his own efforts, in completing his own story, not in the other's interpretation. (63)

Lord of the Rings is a good thing for us because it opened the door for the genre in general. Ursula Le Guin's stories are very different from Lord of the Rings.

My life is a story about who God is and what He does in a human heart.

We like things to manifest right away, and they may not. Many times, we're just planting a seed and we don't know exactly how it is going to come to fruition. It's hard for us to realize that what we see in front of us might not be the end of the story.

That's what a powerful story does. It creates a more intense experience of life for you to watch. That's what a good film does for me, anyway. That process, I enjoy. It just makes for entertaining characters and entertaining films.

For someone who doesn't even like love stories, I've played an awful lot of lovers.

Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out.

Stories, like whiskey, must be allowed to mature in the cask.

Who are we but the stories we tell about ourselves, particularly if we accept them?

If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more research, or making more background notes, so the place and person can be more fully realized inside my own mind.

I enjoyed showing a bit more leg in the last few stories. It was good fun, but it can be quite sexist. But it doesnt worry me personally all that much.

Whenever I meet people for the first time, I assume that they have a great story to tell and that it's my job to find it.

funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story

I see a broken shell and I remind myself that something might have needed setting free. See, broken things always have a story, don't they?

I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my own creation.

Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old--it is the new combinations that make them new.

When...did it become irrational to dislike religion, any religion, even to dislike it vehemently? When did reason get redescribed as unreason? When were the fairy stories of the superstitious placed above criticism, beyond satire? A religion was not a race. It was an idea, and ideas stood (or fell) because they were strong enough (or too weak) to withstand criticism, not because they were shielded from it. Strong ideas welcomed dissent.

To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal.

I do not think that you can be changing the end of a song or a story like that, as though it were quite separate from the rest. I think the end of a story is part of it from the beginning.

Let's finish with Guccifer. My communication with him is now entirely public. It is benign.Secondarily, the timing of my communication is after, not before, I write a story for Breitbart regarding the hacking. And I never defend him from not being a Russian agent in that piece.

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.

If we measured success by longevity, then dinosaurs must rank as the number one success story in the history of land life.

I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself.