Quotes About Story

All that man has to say or do that can possibly concern mankind is in some shape or other to tell the story of his love-to sing, and, if he is fortunate and keeps alive, he will be forever in love.

I saw a story in the Los Angeles Times that 40 percent of the viewers are men. It didn't really surprise me.

The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.

There's a classic story I tell about when I did the Man Show about the retarded conversations that you have with the executive producers and the network.

My story is the story of countless millions of children whose families and nations were torn apart for money in the name of Jesus Christ.

It was a short one-paragraph item in the morning edition.

I like having a plot, I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.

'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.

Like a child, the earth's going to sleep, or so the story goes. But I'm not tired, it says. And the mother says, You may not be tired but I'm tired

My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and I thought it was applause, and I have been looking for it ever since.

Nicole will come up in conversations where it's in a part of the conversation. Or we may be somewhere and I would tell some story about their mother and I. You know, we always honor her birthday.

Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is.

A mother is a story with no beginning. That is what defines her.

I wanted to share my life story and honor my roots. I am very proud of my family and mother.

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.

When I started writing, there was nothing about zombies. It was all teen movies, which to me are scarier than zombies, but that's another story.

There is a sense that animated movies are suddenly a genre. I just don't believe they are; it's a technique to tell a story.

I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction filmmaking, you really feel like you're creating something.

A girl is just like a movie, you want to know what happends next, and how it will end...

Words become sentences, twisted, difficult/The story weaves itself, always noisiest at night/As herds of words won't stop. . . "Wildebeest of Words/Breathe In

For me it was really important to get the essence out of the music for the story and not, sort of, press the music into the service of the whimsical telling of it.

A fragrance is a veritable story, told and explained in scent, in notes, in impressions. It's a score based on the emotions of each instant, a captivating music of the senses.

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

A good country song takes a page out of someone's life, and puts it into music.