To survive, you must tell stories.

Every song has its own story to tell.

Comedy and drama are different sides of the same coin. And the thing about comedy and drama is about likability. It’s about character first. It’s about story. And for me, it’s about empathy, and I think the realer someone is, the further you can go either way with them.

There’s a story behind every person, a reason why they are the way they are. So, think about that before you judge someone.

As a writer, I had learned a lot on ‘Margin Call’ about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project. A story always has an inherent narrative weakness.

Sixty horses wedged in chimney
The story to fit this sensational headline has not turned up yet.

Oddly enough, I’ve always really loved Nightcrawler. You know who else they didn’t use enough was Phoenix. I just thought her story line was so tragic. I was just really drawn to that character as well.

Oddly enough, I’ve always really loved Nightcrawler. You know who else they didn’t use enough was Phoenix. I just thought her story line was so tragic. I was just really drawn to that character as well.

We don’t know the Devil’s side of the story, because God wrote all the books.

When you have an important story to tell, the words you need seem to come of their own accord.

I started dancing first, but felt I could also tell my story through my music.

As an actor, you’re not just interpreting words; you’re breathing life into the soul of a story

Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.

You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.

It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: ‘There is change. Look, today’s fantastic story is tomorrow’s fact.

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality – the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape

I really feel that from my heart that, no matter the number of best stories may exist in this world or on this very planet earth, I find only one story to be the real one, and that is the very story of escape.

We can’t be free until we can tell our story, and only by telling it convincingly can we each do our bit to help the world grow up.

I write fiction for lots of reasons. One is power. I’m in charge when I write. So are you. You create the world of the story. You make the rules.

And the moral of the story is I’m Thom Yorke

The center of our story is the tension between the yearning to create a home and the urge to get out of it.

Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.

Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect’s job to service everyday life

No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you.

There’s always room for a story that can transport people to another place.

My whole story is straight mythical. It’s tangible, but it’s also what life could be.

You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages.

When I write a story or think of a scene, I always play some song in the background. Sometimes when I don’t add a song at the writing stage, I do it while editing the film.

The ‘Mahabharata’ is the best story ever. It makes you believe that impossible things can be made possible. There is magical realism

It is up to the directors to take risks in telling a story and if they want to experiment, they should work with the right kind of people

I did not fix any genre for ‘AK.’ We just write a story and audience will put it in a genre as they perceive it

I’ve never met a person who doesn’t have a story. Everyone’s got something they’re dealing with

Spielberg read the ‘Understudy’ and decided that was the voice he wanted to write ‘Smash.’ He wanted a story that had humanity and humor and high-stakes dreams.

I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through… The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.

Usually, When I’m Rapping, I’m Creating A Big Story Or A Concept Song That Sounds Like A Movie To Me

And This Is Where The Story And Confusion Begin, ‘Cause I Was In Nirvana But I Had To Pretend That I Wasn’t

Even if you’re doing something that the studio sends you, or something that’s based on a book or story, at the end of it all, you try to make whatever it is your own. This is based on my love of horror movies. Everything is based on something, in some way.

One of the things I loved about the musical was that you listened to the soundtrack and it told you the story.

One of the things I loved about the musical was that you listened to the soundtrack and it told you the story

The moral of the story: When considering an engineering problem, beware of letting related unknowns distract attention from well-understood solutions.

I think I was 9, and my mom ordered them for me from a catalogue. They bred like crazy, and I was selling gerbils all around Michigan. They wrote a story about me in the local newspaper.

Our story of bus drivers reveals the existence of the proverbial elephant in the room. It shows that the living standards of the huge majority of people in rich countries critically depend on the existence of the most draconian control over their labour markets – immigration control. Despite this, immigration control is invisible to many and deliberately ignored by others, when they talk about the virtues of the free market.

The story of the whale swallowing Jonah, though a whale is large enough to do it, borders greatly on the marvelous; but it would have approached nearer to the idea of a miracle if Jonah had swallowed the whale

The story of the redemption will not stand examination. That man should redeem himself from the sin of eating an apple by committing a murder on Jesus Christ, is the strangest system of religion ever set up

The story of Jesus Christ appearing after he was dead is the story of an apparition, such as timid imaginations can always create in vision, and credulity believe. Stories of this kind had been told of the assassination of Julius Caesar.

Every writer is a storyteller, but not every storyteller is a writer

The best stories are the ones that leave room for interpretation.

Every story is a journey into the unknown

The power of storytelling lies in its ability to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar

Every story is a journey, and every character is a traveler on that journey

A gun in a film is so culturally specific to America. It looks odd in world cinema unless it’s ironic. I wonder if there are more balls in English films than guns, more nipples in French films. Guns in America’s story are a constant, a plot device, like coffee cups in European films. Guns are Hollywood

Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable, it is true.

Fear is just a story we tell ourselves. Choose a new story.

I think being a singer-songwriter… your job is to tell a story that other people can’t really tell themselves.

The craft of putting together a performance on film or television is incredibly intricate; you’re putting together a story that is completely out of order, that you have to make some sense of, that you have to keep some coherence to the story, to the character.

I just like The Little Mermaid cartoon. Say what you want. I have a fish tank, it’s a long story. I have a fascination with the ocean, and you put a hot chick in there, it just adds more to it! I liked The Little Mermaid. It’s a cool movie. It’s one of those I watch over and over again.

When I was a kid I did impressions and funny voices a lot. When I was telling a story I would use the voices to make it more entertaining.

There’s nothing more exciting than a comeback—seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.

Fiction is Truth’s elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don’t harrass them, don’t deprive them of their happiness, don’t work against God’s intent. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you – alas, it is true of almost every one of us!

Many years later, in front of the firing squad, colonel Aureliano Buendía would remember that distant afternoon his father took him to see ice.

Our scars tell a story of resilience and strength. Embrace your scars and wear them proudly.

This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it

After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this was a very good story although I would not know truly how good until I read it over the next day.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background because it was not easy.

A story is a story, and one may glean from it what one likes. Good sense need not enter into it.

Albums are chapters. They’re part of a story.

Some stories are true that never happened.

Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.

Tell me why, why can’t we try and start again? This can’t be how our story ends

You can’t tell me I ain’t fly I know I’m super fly

I think when you’re telling a story from inside of you that’s genuine, people connect with it.

In 1919 I woke up famous. I’d never guessed it. If I’d known I was famous, I’d have stolen away and wept.

When I see a story, I ask: is this something I’d like to be in? Is this something I’d like to see? And if I’d like to see it, would I like to tell it?

They teach us all a lesson – just as the Christmas story does – that in the birth of a child, there is a new dawn with endless potential.

All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.

Tell your story: yes, tell your story! Give your example. Tell everyone that it’s possible, and other people will then have the courage to face their own mountains.

Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior.

If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.

There is no story that is not true.

If you don’t like someones story, write your own.

My friends have made the story of my life.

Now you know the rest of the story.

I kind of like that romantic image of being in a rocker with my family gathered around, all these generations in one room, listening intently to my stories.

There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was like to go those dark places. I played a guy who died as a result of his abuse.

Cristiano Ronaldo has created his own story, and now I’m creating mine.

In Mozambique, the story goes, monkeys do not talk, because they know if they utter even a single word some man will come and put them to work.

But never did I change, never been ashamed. Never did I switch, story stayed the same. I did this on my own, I made this a lane. Y’all gotta bare with me, I been through some things.

A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don’t know my story.

I never listen that you can’t.

Marriage is like a book. The whole story takes place between the covers.

I wrote the story myself. It’s about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.

I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world

I intend to inspire people with my story—motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience

Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

If you don’t know your full-throttle history—the whole story of how you came to where you are—it’s kind of hard to put things together

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dream

When it’s all over, all that counts is how the story’s told

The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony

If you don’t turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else’s story.” – “The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

The Oxen and the Axle-Trees A HEAVY WAGON was being dragged along a country lane by a team of Oxen. The Axle-trees groaned and creaked terribly; whereupon the Oxen, turning round, thus addressed the wheels: “Hullo there! why do you make so much noise? We bear all the labor, and we, not you, ought to cry out.” Those who suffer most cry out the least.

What’s bred in the bone will stick to the flesh

And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they’re going to go and see the story you’re in.

A man’s legacy is determined by how the story ends.

One story sounds good until another is told

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.

Everything that’s happened to me in my career has been special, even the tough times: they leave marks on you that shape your life.

My story is going to be completely different than someone else’s story in terms of hard work. What I might feel like is hard work, another person is dying to do.