Story Quotes - page 100

No. The moral of the story in so far as it has one is that cannibals can study logic, and that if you are going to leave the path, you better have your wits about you and know better than to trust the first scary old lady who talks to you in public. (Nick Harkaway)
There is a story behind every person, a reason why they are the way they are. Don't be quick to judge. Be kind and assume the best. View quote
Nicky Gumbel
As a storyteller, you have the story that you tell, and you have the way you can tell it, and both are equally important. View quote
Noah Hawley
I'm a big believer that the structure of stories should reflect the content of the story. View quote
Noah Hawley
I think that we're pattern-seeking animals, and what we like best is a story where everything fits together, where there's no puzzle pieces left over. View quote
Noah Hawley
If there's one thing that television doesn't really do, and has never really done, is to tell a surreal story. View quote
Noah Hawley
We're used to a story in modern terms as an information delivery device. Certainly on television and even with the studio films, there's really only one note that you get, and that's clarity. And people will sacrifice everything for clarity. They'll sacrifice the joke. They'll sacrifice the moment, or the romance. View quote
Noah Hawley
It's always very important to me to try to create a story that feels unpredictable. You can't jump ahead and see what's coming, but at the end, when you've watched the whole thing, it all feels inevitable. View quote
Noah Hawley
A two-hour movie tends to be a plot-delivery device; you tend to have to introduce all the characters, say what the goal is, and then get there with a setback, but that's not really how life is or what a story necessarily wants to be. View quote
Noah Hawley
It's amazing how flexible the human mind is in terms of jumping into a backstory or an aside. Vonnegut is a great example - it's not a linear story by any means, but somehow your brain is keeping it moving in one direction even though the story is taking you in all these different directions. View quote
Noah Hawley
The story you choose to tell isn't always the story you believe. (Nova Ren Suma)
I wanted to tell a dream-come-true story about going from a closeted gay kid who loved pop culture to an out adult man making pop culture. I went from being told when I was 21 that I should never go on TV because of my crossed eyes to winding up being a 'Housewives' whisperer and talk-show host. View quote
Andy Cohen
My story is the story of forgotten people and the voice of the voiceless. View quote
Andrea Hirata
The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God the Holy Spirit can turn the situation around in five minutes. View quote
Os Guinness
We are not wise enough, pure enough, or strong enough to aim and sustain such a single motive over a lifetime. That way lies fanaticism or failure. But if the single motive is the master motivation of God's calling, the answer is yes. In any and all situations, both today and tomorrow's tomorrow, God's call to us is the unchanging and ultimate whence, what, why, and whither of our lives. Calling is a 'yes' to God that carries a 'no' to the chaos of modern demands. Calling is the key to tracing the story line of our lives and unriddling the meaning of our existence in a chaotic world. View quote
Os Guinness
The best advice is not to write what you know, it's to write what you like. Write the kind of story you like best - write the story you want to read. The same principle applies to your life and your career. View quote
Austin Kleon
For me, the easiest thing to figure out is the story I want to tell, and the hardest thing is to figure out the voice that's gonna tell it. And that's why I finish very little. View quote
Owen King
No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws. View quote
Pat Conroy
A story untold could be the one that kills you. View quote
Pat Conroy
The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself. View quote
Pat Conroy
What's important is that a story changes every time you say it out loud. When you put it on paper, it can never change. But the more times you tell it, the more changes will occur. A story is a living thing; it moves and shifts. (Pat Conroy)
For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen. View quote
Patrick Carman
Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there's a big disappointment, we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know. View quote
Pema Chodron
When there's a disappointment, I don't know if it's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. View quote
Pema Chodron
Making sentences is what I do. I mean, the story will come as I write. View quote
Per Petterson