Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thucydides

Stories happen to those who tell them.

Tim O'Brien

By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others. You start sometimes with an incident that truly happened, and you carry it forward by inventing incidents that did not in fact occur but that nonetheless help to clarify and explain.

Tim O'Brien

Let the story tell itself.

Tim O'Brien

But this too is true: stories can save us.

Tim O'Brien

I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.

Steven Shainberg

The problem with most love stories in my opinion is that they're too simplistic.

Steven Spielberg

When I don't have a story to tell, I'm a terror to live with.

Robert Bringhurst

Stories are the reproductive organs of language.

Tom T. Hall

I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it.

Tibor Kalman

I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.

Tad Williams

So we face our final hours...and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the end of all our stories.

Tad Williams

She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best.

Samantha Shannon

Nothing’s worse than a story without an end.

Tom Robbins

There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven.

Tom Folsom

I always wanted to do a Hollywood story. The thing about actors, though, is that they go through a streak of roles. The question is, what's in between?

Todd Haynes

In male-driven [films], the protagonist is not the person who's necessarily in harms way. There's a sense that they're going to figure out how to persevere and take on the obstacles and foes and you don't necessarily know if that's going to happen with the subjects of love stories.

Steve Wozniak

Atari is a very sad story.

Steve Erickson

The material dictates the approach. I tell the stories in the way that feels natural to tell them. Certainly the last thing I want is to be "difficult."

Thomas Carlyle

Caution is the lower story of prudence.

Tony Hsieh

A great brand is a story that never stops unfolding.

Tom Savini

My favorite movies are love stories.

Steven Spielberg

[The way Stanley Kubrick] tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories.

Steven Spielberg

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.

Steven Heighton

It's no sin to tell a good story.

Stanley Crouch

All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.

Simon Cowell

There's no need for me to get married. I live with someone; we're happy; end of story.

Shirley Jackson

I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story's readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives.

Shepard Smith

I like stories that affect families.

Shami Chakrabarti

We need to celebrate stories by women, for women, as just one more way to redress gender injustice.

Sergio Aragones

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

Scott Westerfeld

Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them.

Steven Moffat

We're all stories, in the end.

Steven Moffat

I'll be a story in your head. But that's OK. We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Because it was, you know; it was the best.