Story Quotes

TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.

~ Fred W. Friendly

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

~ Wilkie Collins

I wanted to acknowledge that life goes on but that death goes on, too. A person who is dead is a long, long story.

~ Elizabeth Mccracken

I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You'd have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music - I couldn't sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.

~ Amy Winehouse

I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it.

~ Eddie Murphy

Everyone can relate to the story of fighting for happiness.

~ Lilly Singh

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.

~ André Gide

Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder.

~ Tom Waits

Someday we'll learn the whole story of why George W. Bush brushed off that intelligence briefing of Aug. 6, 2001, 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.' But surely a big distraction was the major speech he was readying for delivery on Aug. 9, his first prime-time address to the nation.

~ Frank Rich

My greatest success story has been my family.

~ Alex Spanos

'Love Story' is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn't like him. All of them!

~ Taylor Swift

That's not the part of the story that I'm interested in, anyway. The part that I'm interested in is all the personal stuff. I tried to base the powers on family archetypes.

~ Brad Bird

The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.

~ Joel Coen

I'm completely ecstatic when a woman has own back story and brings something to the table and has a real strong kind of independence.

~ Dane Cook

At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.

~ Michael Pollan

Anyone, any type of story, it doesn't have to be a crime victim, you don't have to let yourself be food for the media.

~ Bernhard Goetz

Like all food, whether you're talking about Persian food, or Chinese food, or Swedish food, it's always a reflection of wars, trading, a bunch of good and a bunch of bad. But what's left is always the food story.

~ Marcus Samuelsson

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

~ John Updike

In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.

~ Chinua Achebe

Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.

~ Andrew Greeley

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

~ Harvey Cox

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

~ Abraham Maslow

Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

~ Neil Gaiman

The Iraqi Free Press, which did not exist 18 months ago because there was no such thing as the Iraqi Free Press, broke a story about the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal, which could potentially turn out to be the largest scandal in history.

~ Chris Chocola

If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.

~ Christine Keeler

Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life.

~ Anthony Horowitz

Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

~ Chinua Achebe

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.

~ Donald Kagan

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

~ Cotton Mather

It's amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.

~ Justin Chadwick

For every dancer, no matter how amazing your career, there's more to life than ballet. Being adored by your audience, it's only part of the story.

~ Darcey Bussell

I've always wanted to do a world creation story and visually create this amazing, incredible, magical kingdom.

~ James Wan

'Macbeth' is an amazing story.

~ Andy Serkis

I think we're going to enter a phase where there's less interest in the CGI and there's a demand for story again. I think we've dropped the ball a little bit on stories for the sake of the amazing toys that we've played with.

~ Peter Jackson

Over the years, I would go to my agents, my manager, and I would say, 'Hey, there's this amazing true story about this gay English mathematician who committed suicide in the 1950s.' And they would be like, 'Please don't ever write that script. That is an unmakeable film.'

~ Graham Moore

The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you're in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they're actually not.

~ George Lucas

My whole story is just about me having a second chance.

~ Two Chainz

Creative non-fiction is such a liberating genre because it allows the non-fiction writer, whether he or she be journalist or essayist, to use all of the techniques of the fiction writer and all of the ideas, creative approaches, that fiction writers get a chance to use, but they have to use it in a true story.

~ Lee Gutkind

I'll work to ensure that every single refugee who seeks asylum in the United States has a fair chance to tell his or her story. This is the least we can offer people fleeing persecution and devastation.

~ Hillary Clinton

I was overjoyed when I was offered the title role in 'Well Done Abba.' I was ready for the role even before I heard the story because you don't ask questions when it is Shyam Benegal's film. It is the chance of a lifetime.

~ Boman Irani