Story Quotes

I mean, the shoe - there is a music to it, there is attitude, there is sound, it's a movement. Clothes - it's a different story. There are a million things I'd rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping.

~ Christian Louboutin

Along with its enchanting and exquisite melodies, West Side Story has attitude and a tremendous amount of frenetic energy. It's emotional, theatrical and technical. It's everything.

~ Steve Vai

Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story. Story is everything. Story and a bit of attitude.

~ Martin Mcdonagh

The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa's major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.

~ Noam Chomsky

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

~ Elvis Presley

Whenever I write a story, I hope it appeals to both boys and girls.

~ Suzanne Collins

As soon as I saw tattoos as a way to tell your story, I thought, 'Oh my gosh, I totally get it.' So I got my first tattoo a couple of years ago, and it's the word 'hope' on my left arm. It has a couple of dots at the end for each of my kids.

~ Kristian Bush

Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts to make even before it's popular. So audiences will not be drawn to the technology; they'll be drawn to the story. And I hope it always remains that way.

~ Steven Spielberg

No matter how dark things may get in a story, I feel it's the responsibility of the storyteller to leave the audience with at least a shred of hope.

~ Josh Radnor

Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

~ Octavia E. Butler

Hopefully, when people see 'Senna', they will understand why this inspirational story needed to be told, why it had to be made as a movie for the big screen, and why it is a film for everyone.

~ Asif Kapadia

Everyone loves a comeback story, and everyone loves the underdog as well. I kind of feel like I've been the underdog. Hopefully that inspires people to not give up on themselves and their lives and not give up on their dreams.

~ James Arthur

We're special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here. That's not just my story. That's your story. That's our story.

~ Marco Rubio

Humor is the only way to tell a story. Especially the dark ones.

~ Lisa Lutz

I thought I was going to be known for my humor. But then I had an idea for a story, which was absolutely not humorous. But, of course, that's the one that sells and becomes big.

~ Jay Asher

'Kramer vs. Kramer' is one of my favorite films, where you have a story that really juxtaposes a lot of ideas that we have about family and about parenting.

~ Taylor Sheridan

That's the thing about Aquaman that's cool is he's not an alien, right? He's from our planet, and he's from a society that we're not privy to in the context of the story.

~ James Wan

I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or unique to the medium, and the only thing you can do on TV that you can't do in film is make a continuing story - which is so cool!

~ David Lynch

With 'The Sixth Sense,' my dad and I discussed how this was not so much a horror story as a story about communication. I understudied with my dad, in a sense. It made a huge difference.

~ Haley Joel Osment

The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.

~ William Shatner

The novel space is a pure space. I'm nobody once I go into that room. I'm not gay, I'm not bald, I'm not Irish. I'm not anybody. I'm nobody. I'm the guy telling the story, and the only person that matters is the person reading that story, the target. It's to get that person to feel what I'm trying to dramatize.

~ Colm Tóibín

I'm pretty much a dinosaur in the studio. I like things hand-drawn, even today. The story artists use Cintiqs, but I'm the only person who hasn't completely converted to computers. I like the Cintiq, but there's something about the raw emotional power of using paper and pencil.

~ Walt Dohrn

The real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

~ Mark Zuckerberg

Everybody jokes about that old story about the world only needing five computers, but when you think about it, that's where we're heading.

~ Matt Mullenweg

I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story.

~ Andrew Lloyd Webber

The whole Christmas story was probably a later addition to the gospel narratives, presented only by the authors of Matthew and Luke. Mark and John seem never to have heard of the manger in Bethlehem, the Massacre of the Innocents, the hovering star, the three wise men, and so forth.

~ Jay Parini

Christmas is a story that has both religious and pagan origins, and to ignore its power is to ignore the power of myth - those symbols and legends that help us to ground our lives.

~ Jay Parini

The first story I can remember writing, that I truly set down on paper, was a Christmas story that I wrote when I was ten years old.

~ Greg Rucka

'A Christmas Carol' has been described as the most perfect of Dickens's works and as a quintessential heart-warming story, and it is certainly the most popular.

~ Claire Tomalin

'A Christmas Story' is my favorite Christmas movie.

~ Paul Pierce

A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.

~ Leonard Maltin

My dad likes to recite the story of 'Pablo the Donkey' before dinner to teach us the real meaning of Christmas. Every year, it's the same; every year, we cringe!

~ Mallory Jansen

Throughout my teenage years, I read 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens every December. It was a story that never failed to excite me, for as well as being a Dickens enthusiast, I have always loved ghost stories.

~ John Boyne

'A Christmas Story' has always meant a lot to me personally.

~ Peter Billingsley

The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.

~ Anish Kapoor

I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.

~ Beth Ditto

A famous love story is hard to maintain when you both live in the spotlight.

~ Lauren Bacall

It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?

~ Idris Elba

Our top story tonight: Famous TV dolphin flipper was arrested today on prostitution ring charges. He allegedly was seen transporting two 16 year olds across state line for immoral porpoises.

~ Colin Mochrie

If you can't sit in a cafe quietly and be ignored, how can you observe human nature and write a story?

~ Evangeline Lilly