Story Quotes

I describe my plots as follows; A character is walking down the street when all of a sudden a piano falls on them. They spend the rest of the story digging out from under that piano. How they dig, how long and how well, this all depends entirely on the character.

I struggled to learn basic skills, get a grip on markets, find my own unique voice, create story lines and come up to speed with the industry. I struggled for ten years before having any success.

Yes, there is a story about Agent Orange, and we knew that it harmed our troops and we knew how long it was to get the medical community to accept that, the military to accept it, the VA to accept it.

If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.

Whenever people are excited about 'My Girl,' I always think if I met the kids from 'The Neverending Story.' I would probably be the same way.

The biggest thing is to let your voice be heard, let your story be heard.

What I've realized is that a film operates both on the intellectual and emotional levels, and if you can find a way to tell a riveting story and draw ideas out of that, it's very powerful.

We are not the originators of the story. I think it's actually the opposite when you're an actor. You're telling somebody else's story.

The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes.

What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering, black and white myth on a screen, it is a resonant story. I want the audience to recognize themselves in these men. They're not just mythic heroes.

The love scenes that worked, regardless of the director, were the ones where the actors weren't fearful. When somebody was fearful, you could see it right away. It takes you out of the story, and that's to be avoided at all costs.

A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark.

Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.

While tributes to Americans who had lost their lives in battle had been held in a number of towns across the nation, one of the more well-known stories about the beginnings of Memorial Day is the story about General John Logan.

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

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

You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" to talk about love.

I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.

The story follows the whole family. But pretty much all the characters who are in jail have written a book about it, so you've got their perspective of it, however skewed they want you to see it.

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.

If somebody has a chance to put my food in their mouth, that tells the story.

I've seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn't occurred to me to take any of those stories and build on them. They seem very finished for me, so I don't feel like going back and dredging them up.

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.

I'm working on a second cookbook and am working on my love story, 'Black Heels to Tractor Wheels.'

Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story.

Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information.

Well, the whole story is in the book, but the short answer is that I was the first information architect in an organization that was traditionally design-oriented, and I felt I needed a tool to help me gain the trust and support of my colleagues.

A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.