Top 100 Great Stories Quotes
#1. Chance could share shit like that with his brother. Chance shared everything with his brother. To him, Quinn was some sort of superhero who occasionally got knee-walking drunk, told great stories, could crack a joke, and pissed him off from time to time.
Alex Morgan
#2. Great stories give us the grace of a mystical experience, on the level of the imagination.
Peter Kreeft
#3. God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions.
Richard Flanagan
#4. Don't discount your angst. Don't discount the tough times, being broke, being unhappy or even disappointed. This are the things great stories are made of.
Lakeshia Poole
#5. Everybody loves a good story, but good storytelling doesn't come easy to everybody. It's a skill that takes a lifetime to master. So study the great stories and then go find some of your own. Your stories will get better the more you tell them.
Austin Kleon
#6. I think I was able to endure risks not because I was ambitious about great stories but I was curious as a journalist.
Hark-Joon Lee
#7. I'd like to think that we strive in film and theatre to tell great stories, and I believe in the power of storytelling in our culture.
Andy Serkis
#8. The great stories go to those who aren't afraid to live them
Tucker Max
#9. A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.
Louis C.K.
#10. It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians.
Dan Fogelberg
#11. At Yahoo, we were one of the early proponents of the power of content showcased through new media. SnagFilms, with its large library and breadth of digital distribution, can help shape this next phase, bringing great stories to broad new audiences.
Terry Semel
#12. You hear all these great stories about kids starting their own businesses and getting involved in their communities and politics and foundations - all kinds of things. And it's so much easier for kids to get motivated and do that. [on her belief that teens are motivated to effect change.]
Alexis Bledel
#13. Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
Karen Thompson Walker
#14. You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems.
Walt Disney Company
#15. Sane, reasonable, play-it-safe people are not sufficiently engaged in life to generate great stories. Instead, they sit back and wait for a leader-storyteller to come along and get them caught up in a life worth living.
Dan B. Allender
#16. People who live great stories know failure isn't a judgment, it's an education.
Donald Miller
#17. Many great stories are father issues, mother issues or death.
Kathleen Kennedy
#18. But now I'm thinking that wanting to end up with a great storyteller might have been a bad idea. Because girls who can tell great stories are also great liars.
Lauren Barnholdt
#19. I come to writing from hearing great stories as a child in Louisiana, where the mark of a person was his or her ability to be a raconteur. I also come to writing as a professional actress whose body has been trained to listen and smell and inhabit characters without judgment.
Rebecca Wells
#21. When we approached the Man of Action guys, we said, "We're not really interested in what's come before, except in the way that we want to make sure that it feels like it's Marvel's Avengers Assemble. From that point on, this is your cast. Go to it and tell great stories."
Jeph Loeb
#22. Great stories agree with our worldview. The best stories don't teach people anything new. Instead the best stories agree with what the audience already believes and makes the members of the audience feel smart and secure when reminded how right they were in the thirst place.
Seth Godin
#23. Great stories teach you something. That's one reason I haven't slipped into some sort of retirement: I always feel like I'm learning something new.
Clint Eastwood
#24. I hope I will get to novelize my present circumstances at some point. I have some great stories to tell.
Jon Weisman
#25. But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by way of heartbreak, sometimes it's by way of injustice, sometimes it's by way of fate. There's an infinite number of ways to examine it.
Tom Hanks
#26. A story that has nothing but action and plot is a pretty poor affair; and some great stories have neither.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#27. I think 'Game of Thrones' was extraordinary. I want to do some period pieces. It would be lovely to tell great stories, that is my main ambition. And to be working with amazing creators.
Stana Katic
#28. The movies I make and my interests are always about pushing the technology as far as we can in support of telling great stories and showing an audience things they haven't seen before.
Joseph Kosinski
#29. No matter what you watch, it has an impact. So, why not use this medium to bring great stories to millions of people around the world with the goal of not only entertaining them but inspiring them. That's what motivates me. That's why I get up every day.
DeVon Franklin
#30. It was easy to believe, between lessons on Shakespeare and Dickens and Austen, that all of the great stories had already been written by dead Europeans. But every time I saw 'The Outsiders', I knew better. It was the first time I'd realized that real people write books.
Ally Carter
#32. Listen carefully, be transparent, be responsive, be authentic, tell great stories-the qualities that would make you the hotshot at a party-and they'll make your organization a likeable one on social networks.
Dave Kerpen
#33. I'd like to find great stories from as many parts of the world as possible.
Nalo Hopkinson
#34. Great stories, well written and heartfelt. Prisoner of SouthernRock is an engaging and entertaining celebration of southern music, musicians and characters.
Chuck Leavell
#35. Everything we are is anchored in our childhoods. The drama comes in how we deal with it. Are we slaves to our past, or can we rise above it? This is the stuff of great stories.
Robert Crais
#36. Great stories are sacred, whether they're true or not.
Maria Kvilhaug
#37. Actually, the first thing I do is choose the antique that will be featured in each book. I try to find unusual objects with great stories. I am fascinated by the stories.
Jane Cleland
#38. Television is competitive now, and the great stories live on television right now. I'm finding that I'm enjoying television more than film, these days. That was my motivation to take a TV show.
Jaimie Alexander
#39. Our group has been in Asia since 1981 in mining, oil and gas. Now we want to mine not silver and gold, but great stories and people, and change the world of cinema, and we want to do that by walking in the footsteps of Wu Tianming.
Robert Friedland
#40. I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells ... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.
Tyler Perry
#41. My brand is good storytelling. I really want [my company] Hillman Grad Productions to be associated with great stories, interesting characters; things that are three-dimensional and feel honest.
Lena Waithe
#42. My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for great stories.
Chuck Palahniuk
#43. A brand is a story. And you have to tell it well. The good news in this connected world great stories travel fast. And, these days, they travel for free. So there has never been a better time or a cheaper time to start something.
David Hieatt
#44. Great stories like the Mahabharata don't belong to any one culture, they belong to the world.
Sharad Devarajan
#45. I think Scotland has some great stories.
Billy Boyd
#46. An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.
Sarah Dessen
#47. When you combine the great stories from the comics with the action and visual excitement of the movies, it doesn't get any better!
Stan Lee
#48. All great stories began as shitty first drafts.
There are no exceptions to this.
M. Kirin
#49. By tracing the careers of the four members of the Philosophical Breakfast Club, Laura Snyder has found a wonderful way not just to tell the great stories of 19th-century science, but to bring them vividly to life.
Tom Standage
#50. Somehow we realize that great stories are told in conflict, but we are unwilling to embrace the potential greatness of the story we are actually in. We think God is unjust, rather than a master storyteller.
Donald Miller
#51. Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film.
Annette Funicello
#52. I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book.
Sally Kirkland
#53. Great stories happen to those who can tell them
Ira Glass
#54. Too often, parents whose children express an interest in farming squelch it because they envision dirt, dust, poverty, and hermit living. But great stories come out of great farming.
Joel Salatin
#55. Film is the only language I speak, and I have been lucky to be involved in some great stories. You don't want to preach to people, but you want them to think about why things are the way they are, the history that is there as well as the possibilities.
Clark Johnson
#56. The work I did on 'Killing Kennedy' was very meticulous and, in some ways, actually tedious. It was hard work because there is so much known about John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald. To try to distill that into a clear narrative that's interesting and tells two great stories was a real challenge.
Kelly Masterson
#57. All our heroes, all our great stories are about failure.
Peter Carey
#58. Great stories do not require profanity.
Joan Bannan
#59. I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
Zoe Saldana
#60. Empathy is the key to great stories.
Ami Vitale
#61. But, you know there's a lot of westerns - not that they were bad - it's just that they can be remade because they're great stories that aren't indelible in an audience's mind when it comes to both the cast and the story.
Tom Selleck
#62. I just want to be a part of great stories, whether I'm part of an amazing ensemble cast or I'm leading it or the antagonist or whatever.
Zoe Saldana
#63. One of the pillars of 'Cyrano' is recreating a love story and, like any archetype, these great stories tend to be captivating, among other things, because they are made of those universal things that move us.
Edgar Ramirez
#64. When I was young, I assumed that authors must have traveled the world or done exotic things in order to tell great stories.
Kevin Henkes
#65. Fear isn't only a guide to keep us safe; it's also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life ... the great stories go to those who don't give in to fear.
Donald Miller
#66. Illiada by Homer is one of the great stories in literature. And I thought its themes really resonated today, whether that was my projection or Homer's intentions. It didn't seem like we had come very far.
Brad Pitt
#67. I'm so excited. Jay Leno is on the show tonight. He brought some really funny jokes and some great stories. Although I'm a little concerned he also brought his old desk and Kevin Eubanks. I just want Jay to be comfortable, but not too comfortable.
Jimmy Fallon
#68. Great stories build relationships and make people care. Those two things are necessary to change anything.
Shane Snow
#69. When you're a writer, you're always looking for conflict. It's conflict that drives great stories.
William Kent Krueger
#70. There are so many great stories and characters out there that you can just keep saying, "Yes," but you've got to eventually make the decision that if it's something you really want then do it for yourself.
Channing Tatum
#71. I travel for the great stories now ready tell, and those waiting to be told.
Carew Papritz
#72. Adventures make great stories, but the day after really sucks.
Bryan Fields
#73. I feel like my job is to make impact, spread love, tell great stories, inspire people, that's what I am going to do.
John Legend
#74. For me, if its television, if it's theater, if it's film, and it's good, I don't make much of distinction between the 3. I think there's only so many great stories out there. If you get the chance to be a part of one, it doesn't matter what it is.
Tom Cavanagh
#75. Women over 35 have great stories, and the actresses are there, but you can't get the movies made.
Bonnie Bedelia
#76. Love is the driver for all great stories: not just romantic love, but the love of parent for child, for family, for country.
Jojo Moyes
#77. But we also need stories. Great stories.
John Piper
#78. There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work.
Geraldine Brooks
#79. When I originally sold X-Men it was because I knew there was 40 years of stories. That was the point! Not only to do the movie and establish the characters, you know, you love the one you're doing. It was because there are all these great stories, what a wealth of drama.
Lauren Shuler Donner
#80. I love the kind of movies I watched when I was a kid. But, I also love telling great stories.
Colin Trevorrow
#81. We think we've got great stories and characters that will lend themselves to great standalone experiences, and that's the way we're focusing on it.
Diane Nelson
#82. There are some great stories in The Second Ring of Power about how Don Juan and Don Genaro found their apprentices and what they went through to fool their students into seeking light.
Frederick Lenz
#83. I love low-budget projects with great acting and great stories you can really get your teeth into.
Erin Richards
#84. Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.
Carrie Fisher
#85. I've realized that in all the great stories, even if there's a happily-ever-after ending, there's something sad.
Emma Thompson
#86. I was not a comic book reader, but my son is. My son wasn't really interested in reading books, which was hard for me because I love to read. It just didn't come naturally to my boy. So we kind of found comic books because they were fascinating to him. They were great stories.
Virginia Madsen
#88. I love being an illustrator because I get to read really great stories, work with amazing people, travel and see places I never would've seen. And I get to draw all the time.
Brian Selznick
#89. I think indie films are really important, because they show the studios and the audiences when they see them, great stories. Really interesting, small stories.
Sigourney Weaver
#90. It was terrible and awful when someone left you. You could move on, do the best you could, but like Eli had said, an ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have to have the last word.
Sarah Dessen
#91. Please excuse my little sister. She's got quite an imagination.
Annie, you're just jealous because I come up with great stories and you're so boring.
Janice Hanna
#92. It's not all about content. It's all about stories. It's not all about stories. It's all about great stories.
Mitch Joel
#93. The Great stories give us the hope and the courage to survive life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#94. I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.
Ira Glass
#95. Great stories don't often make great movies. Its' a crafted art form.
Kevin Costner
#96. If someone writes a great story, people praise the author, not the pen. People don't say, 'Oh what an incredible pen ... where can I get a pen like this so I can write great stories?' Well, I am just a pen in the hands of the Lord. He is the author. All praise should go to him.
Keith Green
#97. Travel is a joy, full of surprises. Perhaps some of the most enjoyable times are those where one comes close to disaster: the risks add spice, and make for great stories when you are safely back home again.
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#98. A lot of times, we also have to live and work. You have to make money to pay rent. In that respect, I don't think you can be so demanding. Those great stories are not the normal stories that come on a daily basis. It's a struggle to land those roles. Everybody is looking for the good parts.
Djimon Hounsou
#99. In all my work, I try to tell great stories that people want to go to the movie theater to watch, or want to turn on, and are compelled to watch it, over and over and over again, and will make a mark when they grow up.
Jon M. Chu
#100. They [comic books] are not a genre, they are not something to get hot and cold from one year to the next, they're the exact same thing as books and plays: they are a source of great stories and colorful characters.
Michael Uslan
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