Story Quotes

People love a true story and especially a true story where two people from opposite worlds come together.

If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step towards it.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

I didn't do drugs, I never did do drugs. Never. I don't have any story of drugs, you know, to speak of. Never did drugs, never was interested in drugs and then I wasn't interested in the people around the drugs.

My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman.

You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.

Of course, everyone knows my story of being born in Russia and moving to the United States at 7. For a few years people would say, 'Well, she's living in the United States, but she's Russian.'

I didn't mind if they yelled at me, but when they came on the field, it was a different story.

History is the story of events, with praise or blame.

Do the story in the way it really demands to be done, which may mean using several different styles or only one style; but it's still about respecting the story.

The longer the president goes without telling his side of the story, the more unease there will be in the public.

A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.

And, of course, supernatural elements just make a story more interesting.

I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together.

I want to pick good projects, I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity. Sanity would be good. I'd like to have a little sanity!

Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music.

Everyone knows me and my wife's story. We didn't have sex until we got married.

I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports.

When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story.

And so many of the kinds of labels you get stuck with don't really tell the story; Progressive, Art Rock, Noise Music, Downtown - it ends up being a struggle to stay out of debates that other people are having around you.

My mother is a special story. She went through so much to bring us up, four men at home, especially when our country was going through really difficult times.

I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.

I met a bunch of comic-book writers at the Metropolis convention and there was such an interesting discussion about the story of 'Supergirl' and trying to get it right. It can be a challenge, because you don't want it to be the same as the Superman story.

For over a year I continued to submit mss, and have them rejected - the last few with rejection letters indicated the story was pretty good, but I was American.

I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.

Throughout my career, when I was finished with the drawing for one film I would go up to the story department and help develop sequences. Sometimes these were for scenes that I would animate later on.

There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and "live" with the characters.