Stories Quotes - Page 9

Stories are equipment for living.

I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.

Every hero is the villain of his own story.

My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I think he was really my tutor.

One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.

An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.

To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art: they

Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.

In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back.

You can’t really change the heart without telling a story.

Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesn’t work. Bashers go one sentence at a time, getting it exactly right before they go on to the next one. When they’re done they’re done.

It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.

Gender has always been considered a fact immutable. But we now know it's actually more fluid, complex, and mysterious. Because of my success, I never have the courage to share my story. Not because I thought what I am is wrong but because of how the world treats those of us who wish to break free.

I need to say to you. There are things in your life that only you will see, stories that only you will hear. If you don’t tell them or write them down, if you don’t make the picture, these things will not be seen, these things will not be heard.

First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien life out there? It's also about politics.

With a purposeful story, you can change a "wanna be" to a "gonna be" to a "be".

I think décor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story.

Ayame: This concludes my wonderful story. Kyo Sohma: You mean stupid!

I keep everything very simple. I like telling stories.

We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.

I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican.

I wish I had a funny story.

When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.

You write your life story by the choices you make.

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .