Stories Quotes - Page 264

I have people constantly come up to me telling me that I have written their life. When I wrote the story I thought it was a pretty good story but I had no idea that many people felt like that.

Me and Biggie share a storytelling ability--he was an actor on wax, too. His stories were so vivid and torrid, he made you feel them. And we both have the hardness. When I come out on the mic, you know it's me.

This is a particular thing, you know, catholic stories of martyrs who had their head removed and then continued to be miraculous in the last moments of their life.

Twitter provides a great amount of timely information, but we still need those people to fill out the rest of the story and the context.

Haruhi: This story has everything but the kitchen sink in it.

As a child, I was a brat, and my parents didn't know how to control me. So they told me ghost stories, which stayed with me. I am still petrified of darkness and being alone.

The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever.

Every time I was with Sammy [Davis Jr.] it was like going to the show business museum because the stories were so extraordinary, and I didn't care if they were true or not after a while. ... I don't know if he really got high with Humphrey Bogart or not. It didn't matter because he was painting these fantastic pictures.

A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him, and in that way he becomes immortal.

There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem.

For me, what makes great actors, always is how truthful they are to the character and the story and the emotion that they're trying to tell.

[The lyrics and melody] usually come a little simultaneously, but I would say the lyrics are first; usually I have the idea for a story in my head, or few lines.

I think Americana music is music that is generally more singer/songwriter oriented. It has more to do with the songwriting. The music, it's more like stories set to music.

Sometimes I have songs born out of stories.

Usually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story.

I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.

But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will

Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded.

I'm not famous for my back story investigations; I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.

In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.

Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you.

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws.

Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden.

It's your life story if you're a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it in his crib.

There is no off position on my visual switch, and I don't want one. I love, and always have, telling stories with my camera.