Stories Quotes

I am a curious person and, believe it or not, I really do like to sit back and listen to people's stories.

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.

At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that.

You can use your means in a good and bad way. In German-speaking art, we had such a bad experience with the Third Reich, when stories and images were used to tell lies. After the war, literature was careful not to do the same, which is why writers began to reflect on the stories they told and to make readers part of their texts. I do the same.

When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell in love with broadcasting, with telling stories about other people's exploits.

Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I've still got lots of stories I want to tell, mainly about social injustice and people chewed up by the system.

I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.

Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories.

I think Scotland has some great stories.

Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy.

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.

Most politicians - those people who live, eat and breathe politics - like to sit around and talk about politics and tell political war stories. Reagan didn't do that. His war stories were movie war stories and Hollywood war stories. He loved that.

And meanwhile, the storytellers like me and Anderson, Silverberg... we tell stories. People like them. They want to know how it comes out, they want to know what the ending is.

We always see the innocent victims in the stories, and I am a little bored with that. I am much more interested in the price paid by the people who can fly.

Do goofy stories make people nice? What if, in their goofiness, these stories somehow inspire that in the right way. Is that a social good?

Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten.

There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other. As a filmmaker, I want to entertain people first and foremost. If out of that comes a greater awareness and understanding of a time or a circumstance, then the hope is that change can happen.

All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to be able to be in them as much as I am, to see them from the first stitch in a costume to the end product.

I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.

And I think it's very rare to have good stories, well written comedies.

There have been many times when we have not run stories because we cannot get it verified.

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.

And 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.

A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.

In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

Stories about Diana's fashions, about possible rows between Charles and Diana, these were meat and drink.

With movies, you are always in search is a good story, one that everyone will relate to and love. I love finding those stories and creating a visual world to tell the story.