Stories Quotes - Page 91

The healing that can grow out of the simple act of telling our stories is often quite remarkable.

It is true that I visualize music and, as I visualize music, I have some sort of story running in my head, all the time.

Ghost stories ... tell us about things that lie hidden within all of us, and which lurk outside all around us.

Love begets glory,Work begets story.LOVED WORK Begets A Story of Glory!

I enjoyed [Celebrity Ghost Stories]. I never thought in a million years that I would tell people that I saw a ghost. And I've seen a lot of ghosts.

The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.

I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, 'Henry, have you made your peace with God?' Thoreau said, 'I didn't know we'd quarreled.

The bones of the story of 'War Horse' is a love story. That's what makes it universal.

My movies more often are told through pictures, not words. But in this case, the pictures took second position to the incredible words of Abraham Lincoln and his presence [...] I was less interested in an outpouring of imagery than in letting the most human moment of this story evolve before us.

I'll be a story in your head. That's okay. We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? 'Cause it was, you know. It was the best. The daft old man who stole a magic box and ran away. Did I ever tell you that I stole it? Well I borrowed it. I was always going to take it back.

I don't want to think that the stories are finite; I want to feel that they can go on forever.

Because here’s the thing: No matter how much one tells stories of magical beasts or impossible worlds, in the end, it is always the world of here and now one is writing about. The better one understands that world, the more powerful the stories will be.

Because we humans find stories such fascinating things, it’s all too easy to get interested in the story for its own sake, and lose sight of the purpose for which we set out to use the story.

When I was a little kid, I told stories.

The best scary movies have great humor in them and a great story.

The fact that the Antarctica is beginning to look more like it's part of the story, as well.

I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.

we need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts.

Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.

There's nothing like stories on a windy night when folks have found a warm place in a cold world.

I believe there's a landscape that exists underneath everything that we can see in present-day stuff. And I think that makes life kind of a detective story.

Not everyone has a sob story, Charlie, and even if they do, it's no excuse.

Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course.

I think the way you become a good storyteller is to read a lot of stories and evaluate them in your own mind.