Stories To Quotes

#1. I remember myself at 10 years old telling stories to my sisters and brother. This is something I did through my adolescence and even through my twenties.

Pedro Almodovar

#2. If we were all as wise as we should be, we would have no stories to tell

Freeman Wills Croft

#3. I like human stories. I like stories about situations we can relate to. I like movies like 'Ordinary People' or 'Terms of Endearment.' Mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, boyfriends, girlfriends. The stories to me that are worth telling are almost simple ones, but very relatable.

Chris Evans

#4. What we need now are new stories to share with each other, new tales to live into the world, which is to say, stories to make real by living our own versions of them.

Bill Plotkin

#5. Data are just summaries of thousands of stories - tell a few of those stories to help make the data meaningful.

Dan Heath

#6. While technology efficiently delivers news stories to our desktops, laptops and mobile devices, magazines are all about context - how ideas and images are presented in relation to one another and within a larger point of view.

Stefano Tonchi

#7. I learned that books are never finished, that it is possible for stories to go on writing themselves without an author.

Paul Auster

#8. We didn't create the culture of film. We certainly market it better than anyone in the world, but film could have happened anywhere. It's not distinctly American, as witnessed by the fact that there are film communities throughout the world that tell stories to their own cultural liking.

David Simon

#9. Now, as Global Ambassador for Starlight Children's Foundation, which brightens the lives of poorly children, I visit hospitals and tell stories to the young patients. Sometimes I read. Sometimes I draw.

Tony DiTerlizzi

#10. You can't know who you really are until you've tasted all the things life has to offer...otherwise you'll just be standing there with an empty plate and no stories to tell

Amber Mosby

#11. Read all kinds of stories to your child. Don't be afraid if they don't all have happy endings. Being exposed to peaks and valleys of life encourages empathy, resilience, and feelings of meaningfulness and gratitude for our own lives.

Iben Dissing Sandahl

#12. Television's not going read stories to you.

Kurt Loder

#13. For as long as there have been heroes, those half-brave, half-mad souls willing to dash headlong against things that would send most of us screaming in the other direction, there have been stories to immortalize their journeys.

Nathan Robert Brown

#14. For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting.

Jimmy Smits

#15. There is nobody so weak of invention that cannot make some little stories to villify his enemy.

Joseph Addison

#16. [A conductor's] happiness does not come from only his own story and his joy of the music. The joy is about enabling other people's stories to be heard at the same time.

Itay Talgam

#17. All of my peers died of AIDS, and I have no one to celebrate my past or my journey, or to help me pass down stories to the next generation. We lost an entire generation of storytellers with HIV.

David Mixner

#18. I definitely prefer directing, hands down. I'm a lazy writer and it wasn't until I got into directing that I now have a real impetus when I'm sitting at my computer. Now that I know what it's like to get to bring characters and their stories to fruition, I'm addicted. I'm a junkie. I want more.

Coley Sohn

#19. Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.

Ben Whishaw

#20. There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones.

Jodi Picoult

#21. I have never seen a film being as influenced by the incidents during its making as Highway. The adventures of our north Indian road journey has many stories to tell

Imtiaz Ali

#22. We were rough around the edges, but that didn't make us worthless. Being a little damaged does not make someone broken. It just means they have better stories to tell and cooler scars. It

A.J. Mendez Brooks

#23. When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that my father read stories to us kids out of. I liked the idea of the short story format.

Mark Mothersbaugh

#24. Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum.

Paulo Coelho

#25. Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home.

Tony Snow

#26. I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.

Aleksandar Hemon

#27. The comics were not only stories to enjoy; for me they were drawings that possessed me.

Jean Giraud

#28. When Jesus was roaming the earth, he used powerful stories to inspire disciples to follow him and, in turn, impacted millions of lives for centuries. How

Matt Morris

#29. We must keep in mind that only a part of memory can be translated into the language-based packets of information people use to tell their life stories to others. Learning to be open to many layers of communication is a fundamental part of getting to know another person's life.

Daniel J. Siegel

#30. There are many different stories to tell. It's never the same. Every day weather blows in and out, alters the surface. Sometimes it is stripped down to a single essential truth, the thing that is always believed, no matter what. The seeds from which the garden has grown.

Helen Humphreys

#31. People need stories ... we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books.

Jennifer Chiaverini

#32. My only requirement for that first story was that there had to be a fight or an explosion on every page. Naturally, no one wanted to publish it, but I liked the character, did a few stories to keep my hand in.

Phil Foglio

#33. As hard as we have worked and as far as we have come, there are still so many forces conspiring to tell women that our concerns are petty, our opinions aren't needed, that we lack the gravitas necessary for our stories to matter.

Lena Dunham

#34. Now there were no more stories to tell, to soothe, to comfort, to draw strangers close together; to link like hearts and minds.

Melanie Benjamin

#35. It's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.

Alan Rickman

#36. Being a writer, I take thing seriously (not too seriously). I may be a young writer/self publisher, I do love to write and I want to share my stories to the world. but more importantly, I do take writing seriously.

Simi Sunny

#37. I started creative writing classes at Aberdeen Central Library, and the writer-in-residence there, Todd McEwen, encouraged me a great deal. He showed my stories to his editor, and I thought that was just what happened to everyone who took his classes!

Leila Aboulela

#38. There are so many screenwriters with incredible stories to tell, so I hope there will be some kind of shift in the business where very few types of movies are now made by the studios. There needs to be different budgets for different audiences; not everything having to be a huge opening weekend.

Callie Khouri

#39. But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore.

Orson Scott Card

#40. I decided I don't want to go for the top job now. I could be working for another 25 years and I'd like to be reading bedtime stories to my children for another two or three years.

Yvette Cooper

#41. I knew books could see people around them, they ground their tiny teeth, tried to rattle like windows, stories to tell.

Steve Aylett

#42. When the Devil gets bored he tells stories to his bats and these bats fly to us and give us these stories as nightmares.

Philip Ridley

#43. Perhaps writing a story or a novel was not something that should be done for money, or to win praise, but for the sheer sensual pleasure of it. I liked that idea. It made me want to write lots of stories, to give myself that pleasure.

Vanessa Wu

#44. Ninety percent of the population spends time imagining their future and forgetting that now is where we live and breathe. The ten percent who live in the present are the ones who have the stories to tell, the ones who live life the way it's meant to be lived.

Everly Drummond

#45. That's what we do: tell made-up stories to fend off the night, to put off telling the truth.

Bernie Mcgill

#46. Somehow, knowing that Alzheimer's is coming mocks all one's aspirations - to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can do, to be recognised for one's accomplishments and hard work - in a way that old familiar death does not.

Jane Smiley

#47. Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

Jason Katims

#48. Listen: Love your fiction, even if you hate the act of creating that fiction, love the stories to a fault. Cry at your tragedies, laugh at your jokes, rejoice at your character's victories - or give it all up and go knit a damned sweater, instead.

Caitlin R. Kiernan

#49. About 10,000 people a day go on first dates from Match ... We're trying to celebrate that, bring those success stories to the forefront and make it even easier in our product to meet up at Starbucks.

Sam Yagan

#50. The stories in 'Jim the Boy' are either made up or appropriated from some source other than my family. But the idea of a family telling stories to the kid, often to impart some kind of lesson, that's very familiar, and that's the way that I grew up.

Tony Earley

#51. Don't tell your stories to anyone. You'll be more motivated knowing it's a prerequisite to having an audience.

Andy Weir

#52. Sometimes I feel like relationships consist of telling your same life stories to different people until someone finally appreciates them.

Kate Rockland

#53. People at a point of conflict are always the most interesting stories to tell.

Anne-Marie Duff

#54. I have no stories to sell. A lot of my relationships are with civilians, and no one wants to hear about those.

David Spade

#55. He beauty of this world [of comics] is there are so many stories to tell, and there's so many wonderful characters. Wonderful characters we haven't even begun to introduce - it's a world that is infinitely expandable.

Bruno Heller

#56. It's just that you go so crazy being alone like that. Sometimes he'd forget my water or food and I'd cry and cry and cry." She stops talking and looks out the window. "I would try to tell myself stories to pass the time. Fairy tales. Parts of books. But they got used up.

Holly Black

#57. Both oral and written stories are an important aspect of culture. Stories are a ubiquitous component of human communication. People use stories to explain historical events and to illustrate ideology. Stories teach ethical principles through parables.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#58. Dance means different things to different people". It is a blend of Nritta, Nritya and Natya. It is a poetic expression which tells stories to people, a subtle interfusion of drama in an otherwise classical pattern.

Shallu Jindal

#59. All writers pen sad stories to garner sympathy, writing is after all for the abandoned of the society: the ink-leech, spewing black blood and sucking innocent souls.

Aporva Kala

#60. If everything went well, there would be no stories to tell. So, let's add another one to the list!

Helen Jonsen

#61. It is the nature of stories to leave out far more than they include.

Marion Dane Bauer

#62. We are always telling stories to ourselves, about ourselves...But we can control those stories...I believe that! Events in our life have meaning because we choose to give it to them

Dan Chaon

#63. What Christopher Nolan and I have done with 'Superman' is try to bring the same naturalistic approach that we adopted for the 'Batman' trilogy. We always had a naturalistic approach; we want our stories to be rooted in reality, like they could happen in the same world we live in.

David S.Goyer

#64. Oh, this absolute loneliness and the game - loving to play the game, loving to go and tell stories to men that certainly weren't true, just for the sport of it, just to see how they would react.

Jennifer Beals

#65. Don't judge me by my books. They're not my voices, and they were never my stories to tell.

Nadege Richards

#66. Personally, as a print journalist, I always found the most interesting stories to be the ones hacks talked about in the bar after work.

Nick Denton

#67. She had been searching for a way to justify her own choices. It was the first time I realized that we all bend and shape our stories to fit our own ends. It was certainly no the last.

Greer Macallister

#68. We all create stories to protect ourselves.

Mark Z. Danielewski

#69. Medicine, I said, begins with storytelling. Patients tell stories to describe illness; doctors tell stories to understand it. Science tells its own story to explain diseases.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#70. 'Agent Mom' is a perfect opportunity for me to do what I love ... develop characters, act and take incredible stories to my fans. So yes, I can absolutely see myself cast as 'Agent Mom.'

Alaina Huffman

#71. In truth, age is a writer's ally. The greater the experience, the more we have to say. More time to learn important truths, to establish a more expansive point of view, to refine skills and find your voice, and infinitely more stories to be told.

Randy Kraft

#72. You think I tell you stories to teach you lessons? the monster said. You think I have coming walking out of time and earth itself to teach you a lesson in niceness?

Patrick Ness

#73. Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So I had to take the situation and invent stories to go with it.

W.P. Kinsella

#74. People only know what you tell them.And it was true.People gave out their whole life stories to anyone and everyone without a second's thought.Stand at a bus stop,sit in a strange pub,get banged up,and someone would always give you their life story.It was as if they were trying to prove they existed

Martina Cole

#75. I think the name of the show, 'This American Life' - we named it that just because it seemed like it made the thing feel big. But we don't think about whether it's an American story or not. We happen to be Americans. I think for the stories to work, they have to be universal.

Ira Glass

#76. All Hollywood endings - the bad endings have to be the bad guys to be falling about 50 stories to his death and you have to see his eyeballs as he goes to his doom.

Chris Matthews

#77. Every novel is brand-new. It's never been written before in the history of the world. At the same time, it's merely the latest in a long line of narratives - not just novels, but narratives generally - since humans began telling stories to themselves and each other.

Thomas C. Foster

#78. Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.

Jennifer McMahon

#79. My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.

John Green

#80. In December 2011, I will be opening up my production house, Sharmeen Obaid Films, and aspire to change the way Pakistanis approach nonfiction storytelling. There are thousands of stories to be found here.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#81. Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can't stop, and you've got so many stories to look forward to.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#82. Fiction is an urgent business. It is the Dying Us telling stories to the Dying Us, trying to crack the nonsense in our heads open with a big hammer pronto, before Death arrives.

George Saunders

#83. I'd been writing for as long as I could remember, but once I read Otherworld, I'd stopped writing original stories to focus on fan fiction. It was such a rich, exciting world that I couldn't think of writing anything else.

Allison Van Diepen

#84. We're definitely going to hell. But we'll have all the best stories to tell

Frank Turner

#85. There's talent on the streets, kids with ideas who have stories to tell and never get a chance.

James Jannard

#86. I can't tell stories to save my life. I like to have fun, and I go out and have a lot of fun. But I'm not really an entertainer that way. I'm much more shy.

Marisa Tomei

#87. Such is the amazing power of stories to link us to our past and lead us all the way back to the present.

Margi Preus

#88. Boy, do I got some stories to tell.

Robbie Robertson

#89. Adventuresome stories to life for kids big and small who dare to dream.

Jack Makhlouf

#90. More than simply capturing brief moments in time, MixBit helps people bring stories to life.

Chad Hurley

#91. Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that passion for stories to our children. It's not about testing and reading schemes, but about loving stories and passing on that passion to our children.

Michael Morpurgo

#92. The heart is a repository of emotions
real, imagined, and invented, owned and borrowed, past, present, future
and there in your chest, operating at an average of 80 beats per minute at rest, is a heart that has stories to tell.

A.A. Patawaran

#93. Every historical moment needs the stories to be told about it.

Paul Auster

#94. He was always being told that writers never become famous or rich, but of course that was not why he wrote, he wrote simply because he felt he had interesting stories to tell that people might like to hear.

Andrew James Pritchard

#95. We continually use stories to hold up as mirrors to ourselves.

William Kittredge

#96. Embarrassed journalists ask me embarrassing questions, and they get embarrassing answers, and then hand out embarrassing stories to the embarrassing editors, who put them to the front pages of newspapers. When is this going to end?

Yao Ming

#97. I have so many different voices and stories to tell.

Katori Hall

#98. We are the creature that tells itself stories to understand what sort of creature it is.

Salman Rushdie

#99. Although my work is to grapple with words, I have no words with which to describe and explain this feeling. Perhaps I write stories to show that in life there are moments, emotions, and events that cannot be explained with words.

Shahriar Mandanipour

#100. Without a best friend to tell stories to, it almost didn't matter if they even happened.

Leila Howland