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Quotes About Story

History is filled with fictional people.
~ Robyn
Plot makes the character just as history makes the man.
~ Thomas Steinbeck
And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.
~ Jean Cocteau
History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place.
~ Jules de Goncourt
I just think the David O. Selznick story is one of the great, epic stories of Hollywood history that nobody knows. Maybe one of the reasons why nobody knows it is because he wasn't a movie star.
~ Karina Longworth
History is not what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago; it's a story about what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago.
~ Lewis H. Lapham
It was important to me to put together a future history that would scan, and serve as the backdrop to the domestic story. Economics is really what drives the plot.
~ Lionel Shriver
Radical historians now the tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey.
~ Mason Cooley
Ingeniously plotted and executed, Print the Legend is an epic masterpiece from Craig McDonald. Beginning to end, I was riveted by this story of character, history and intrigue.
~ Michael Connelly
Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships.
~ Winona LaDuke
Recently I heard a 'wise guy' story that I had a party at my home for twenty-five men. It's an interesting story, but I don't know twenty-five men I'd want to invite ta a party.
~ Joan Crawford
Whenever I started writing music, it just naturally led itself there. As I started to tell my story, it's where my home was. It's just a very natural choice.
~ Jamie Lynn Spears
At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.
~ Michael Pollan
I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives.
~ Douglas Sirk
A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.
~ Nate Berkus
I had always been wary of doing any autobiographical movies, truly feeling at home with fiction.
~ Peter Weir
and suddenly I am washed over by a wave of happiness for it, for my little story, because it is a place, a home even, and I can go back to it from wherever I am
~ David Grossman, Her Body Knows
Raw and honest is what I go for [in my style of shooting]. I am looking for your inner beauty. The outside tells a story... But together is raw honesty.
~ Nikki Sixx
I believe in letting the story speak for itself.
~ L.M. Fields
By telling my own story, I hope to help remove the stigma. It never should be something to hide.
~ Richard Dreyfuss
No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.
~ Bob Goff
And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself.
~ Joshua Slocum
Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
~ John Berger
I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.
~ Viggo Mortensen