Stories Quotes

I never, ever have seen media this way. It's almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It's making themselves look like utter fools. There's no journalism, there is no media. There's pure, full-fledged advocacy here.

So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.

Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.

I enjoy doing romantic stories. I've done a lot of them.

Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at speeds that turn Reuter photos and traditional reporting into, well... yesterday's news.

The main thing I do now is I coach kids, and all of these stories along the way are based in reality.

In families there is always the mythology. My father died when my kids were quite young still, and yet they still tell his stories. That is how a person lives on.

But on the other hand, I don't actively seek out stories or hunt them down.

Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news.

Ideally, I'd like every issue to include a diverse group of stories that meet the qualifications sketched above, but covering a wide range of specific matter and flavour.

I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.

I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself.

Simple stories... emerge as lovely films or television pieces.

I think ever since I was preteen I wanted to direct movies and tell stories.

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail.

He just kind of talks them through, and then I get the fun part cause I get to make up the stories.

A book reaches a different crowd of people. There are 50 different stories of very different individuals participating in their communities either locally or nationally in meaningful ways.

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired.

I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn't much like it.

You know, I love plays. I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director.

When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing.

I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.

When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books.

Don may yawn at the idea, which he often does, but the great thing about Don, he has confidence in me and Mike and Ed and Leslie and Steve, that we're not going go out and do stories that will put people to sleep.

I want to be scared. I want to keep taking insane risks. I want to be scared because you're going to grow through that whether you want to or not. I don't want to play the same guy. I want to keep throwing curveballs to you guys and keep telling stories.

There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.

Like life itself my stories have no point and get absolutely nowhere.

They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.

I want to tell stories about Europe - I feel profoundly European, I don't feel like an American.