Explore Quotes on Stories

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it.

It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.

I'm kind of a good girl - and I'm not. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That's what the stories in my music do.

As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas.

I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing comics weren't just kid stuff.

I don't enjoy movies in 3D. I find I can't engage with the story as well.

I always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That's why I struggle with the whole notion of calling someone the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' because I think we all have potential to do good things and all have the potential to do bad things.

The Hubble Law is one of the great discoveries in science; it is one of the main supports of the scientific story of Genesis.

I think that stories, and the telling of stories, are the foundations of human communication and understanding. If children all over the country are watching films, asking questions and telling their stories, then the world will eventually be a better place.

We are increasingly offered a diet [by Hollywood] in which sensation, not story, is king.

It is utterly impossible to divorce the story of student awakenings from the course of missions in countries overseas. From the beginning, one of the most immediate and dramatic effects of college revivals has been the recruitment of personnel for the work of Christ abroad.

I am the father of a 9 year-old son whose descent into the world of autism began at the age of 7 months old after receiving numerous vaccinations in a single day; the same story that is told by thousands of other parents of children throughout the country whose healthy, normally developing children have become autistic after vaccinations.

If your life were a book, and you were the author, how would you want your story to go?

You can make it your excuse, or you can make it your story.

A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth.

The most important thing is the story. Not the script, but the story.

Do goofy stories make people nice? What if, in their goofiness, these stories somehow inspire that in the right way. Is that a social good?

Personally I like the slow burn; I don't think there is anything wrong with it. When I think about the movies that were most effective on me as a viewer I think of the original Haunting and the Exorcist, Rosemary's Baby, the Sixth Sense, the Others. These movies are not over the top at all, they are movies that rely on good story telling, good acting, good premise, good exposition and I want to stay true to that in future projects.