Story Quotes

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.