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Quotes About Story

Parents don't take a baby's temperature to decide whether the room is too warm; likewise, for global warming, we need a story that spurs us to do what is necessary.
~ George Akerlof
Rather than a taste for the macabre, I like the full range of human emotion in a story, which means darkness and light. It means warmth, but it also potentially means scares.
~ Travis Knight
All I know is that I'm a warrior in 'Game of Thrones,' where all men must die, so it might happen at one point. But I feel like they're going to take the story where they think they need to go, so I'll wait, and I'll gladly do whatever they write.
~ Michiel Huisman
The most emotionally connected I've ever been to a character is Natsuki in 'Summer Wars.'
~ Brina Palencia
I see lots of cycles, for sure. There's the whole post-Star Wars era, but I don't think it's the whole story.
~ Rob Morrow
Creating authentic emotional experiences, whether it's 'Star Wars' or 'Spotlight,' are driven by characters and stories that are engaging.
~ Kathleen Kennedy
While I prefer generally more personal dramas in which I can stretch myself... and while I'm not a science fiction buff, I consider '2001' a great film, absolutely enthralling; at 'Star Wars' I had a fabulous time, and, at 'Alien,' while it was a silly story, I was knocked out.
~ Yvette Mimieux
I wanted to use my story of starting Netflix - the whole thing, warts and all - to show how a dream could make it from the inside of one's head out into the real world.
~ Marc Randolph
You are the traveler, taking this journey. You are the hero, writing this story. When the trickster Pau-Henoa wandered under the earth, what did he find?" "The sun," "Right," said Chessey firmly. "Even the pagans knew: you will wander the dark places under the earth, but you will come back with the sun.
~ Rachel Hartman
The Author of life who pens your story observes each time you discuss Him and honor His name before others!
~ Rachel Olsen
Joe Saviour once told me that every life has a legend. Before the soul comes down to earth, God seals a story inside it. To know your purpose, you need to unravel the mystery of that legend.
~ Rachel Zadok
Tómese un viejo castillo medio en ruinas. Un largo pasillo con muchas puertas, varias de ellas han de ser secretas. Tres cadáveres aún sangrantes. Tres esqueletos bien embalados. Una vieja ahorcada con varias puñaladas en el pecho. Ladrones y bandidos a discreción. Una dosis suficiente de susurros, gemidos ahogados y estruendos horrísonos. Mézclese, agítese y escríbase. El cuento está listo
~ Rafael Llopis
God went forth to create the world, and he took his dog with him. - Kato Indian creation story
~ Raimond Gaita
Honestly, the point is I no more expect you to acknowledge or respect my feelings, there ends your story! HAPPY ME!
~ RAMANA PEMMARAJU
I knew for sure that I didn't want the lecture to focus on my cancer. My medical saga was what it was, and I'd already been over it and over it.
~ Randy Pausch
Life's like a novel with the end ripped out.
~ Rascal Flatts
Where some people see a divine hand, others see a multiverse spawning an evolution of universes with the boring (non-information-bearing) ones dying out. But regardless of how our universe got to be the way it is, we can start our story with a world based on information.
~ Ray Kurzweil
It is not as though marriage is just one theme among others in the Bible. Instead, marriage is the wraparound concept for the entire Bible, within which the other themes find their places. And if the Bible is telling a story of married
~ Raymond C. Ortlund Jr.
Plots are for dead people.
~ Raymond Federman
Stories are really important to people and can really change the way they understand, and even live, their lives. As such, I don't agree much with people who say, 'Calm down, it's just a story.'
~ Tim Pratt
I also know what looks good before the camera, how to move the camera, and how to get a story on the screen.
~ Taylor Hackford
Unless the story line carries the scenes, the scenes don't really mean anything.
~ George Cukor
It's actually easier to do autobiographical stories. The story is already there. It's a matter of carving away what doesn't fit rather than building up from nothing.
~ Craig Thompson
My job is to kind of nudge them. Who said it, where, like, '90% of the job is casting,' so all I do is try to come to set and focus on getting all the best shots to cover the story; that's really it.
~ Wes Ball