22 Stories Quotes

#1. The romance is the primary plot in a story that has two plots. The second plot is not a subplot, but one that is interwoven with the romance plot (if that makes sense.) A story needs compelling characters in a compelling plot. #Quote by Madeline Hunter

#2. Unscrupulous agitators have been at work spreading atrocity stories which can only be compared with those lies that were fabricated by the same instigators at the beginning of the Great War. #Quote by Adolf Hitler

#3. Is she going to, or has she done it? Has it happened? What is the story here? #Quote by Vera Wang

#4. Besides my love for horses and cars, I am passionate about making the cheapest vaccines in the world. I started making life-saving drugs when I was 22. #Quote by Cyrus S. Poonawalla

#5. I think that, in Hebrew, it's like the language creates a more unique and specific universe even before the story. #Quote by Etgar Keret

#6. Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days. #Quote by Eric Brown

#7. I never finished any of my early stories. They were all beginnings, an endless number of beginnings. #Quote by George R R Martin

#8. Stories arrest us. Parents use stories to capture the attention of active children. Preachers use stories to capture the attention of sleepy adults. #Quote by Tony Reinke

#9. I wouldn't say I'm personally trying to transition from comedy into drama. I don't look at things like, 'Oh, I need to do a drama now.' I get a lot of material sent to me, and if I feel like something has the creative integrity and the right director and the right whoever involved, the right actors and is a great story, then I do it. #Quote by Ashton Kutcher

#10. Generations of pieces that had passed down from mother to daughter, daughter to son stayed locked away. Jac felt encumbered by those jewels. As if the stories and dreams attached to them weighed on her when she worn any of them. #Quote by MJ Rose Seduction

#11. Buy products of genuine lasting value from brands that take their manufacturing seriously. I have things that are 75 years old, like the dinner suit of my grandfather's that was made in 1933 by a tailor in Edinburgh. Clothes develop stories. You can remember where you've been through clothing that you've worn. I want products that are going to endure. I hate that we buy things that are disposable. We need to buy products with integrity. #Quote by Patrick Grant

#12. Original, pacy, and hugely entertaining-Seanan McGuire knows how to tell a good story! #Quote by Alma Alexander

#13. I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I have fallen seriously in love with writing stories and seeing them go out into the world. It's magical, you know? #Quote by Dorothea Benton Frank

#14. There are three points about stories: if told, they like to be heard; if heard, they like to be taken in; and if taken in, they like to be told. #Quote by Ciaran Carson

#15. Life is too short, dare to enjoy every minute.
Life is too short, dare to love everybody.
Life is too short, dare to make best of it.
Life is too short, dare to have a grateful heart.
Life is too short, dare to keep smiling.
Life is too short, dare to have no regrets.
Life is too short, dare to have no heartbreaks.
Life is too short, dare to extend hand to needy people.
Life is too short, dare to fight injustice.
Life is too short, dare to be all you can be.
Life is too short, dare to tell the truth at all times.
Life is too short, dare to see the world.
Life is too short, dare to forgive and forget.
Life is too short, dare to waste no time.
Life is too short, dare to burn no bridges.
Life is too short, dare to be more brave than weak.
Life is too short, dare to prioritize things of importance.
Life is too short, dare to spend your time with those who you care.
Life is too short, dare to be around people who believe in you.
Life is too short, dare to share your stories with others.
Life is too short, dare to do things you enjoy most.
Life is too short, dare to start your day with a positive attitude.
Life is too short, dare to live your life with a purpose.
Life is too short, dare to be surrounded by people who share your dreams.
Life is too short, dare to go to places you feel most excited about.
Life is too short, dare to love like there is no tomorro #Quote by John Taskinsoy

#16. You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories. #Quote by Karen Russell

#17. Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects. #Quote by Laura Miller

#18. Wars aren't like that." "Aren't like what?" Roberts said. "Aren't like stories about wars," Vandercaust #Quote by James S.A. Corey

#19. The man had no portraits or photographs, but he had slowly surrounded himself with mementos of a fantastic past. Each little item, by the sheer nature of its being, told a story. Looking around was a little like being back on the dig, or like deciphering an ancient text, and I wondered what stories they would tell me if I only knew how to read them. #Quote by William Ritter

#20. In Harlan, Kentucky, we told stories the way some people play music ... In the mountains, storytelling is truly an art form, and as much recreation as communication. #Quote by Maxine Cheshire

#21. College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school. #Quote by Judd Apatow

#22. His whole life he tried to make things better for poor children, but his real calling was being a father. It was a talent with him. As soon as our girls could sit up, he was wheeling them to the library and taking out books to read them bedtime stories. #Quote by Anita Diamant

#23. Little by little, over more than two centuries, the local stories told by rocks in all parts of the world have been stitched together into a great global tapestry - the geologic timescale. This "map" of Deep Time represents one of the great intellectual achievements of humanity, arduously constructed by stratigraphers, paleontologists, geochemists, and geochronologists from many cultures and faiths. It is still a work in progress to which details are constantly being added and finer and finer calibrations being made. #Quote by Marcia Bjornerud

#24. Truth is not a stereotype. #Quote by A.D. Posey

#25. There's stories and then there's stories. The ones with any worth change your life forever, perhaps only in a small way, but once you've heard them, they are forever a part of you. You nurture them and pass them on, and the giving only makes you feel better. The others are just words on a page. #Quote by Charles De Lint

#26. My aunt Geraldine was the unofficial historian and storyteller. She had all the information about family members and the gossip that came out of the church because we were very much part of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. At family gatherings, the older folk had the floor, had pride of place, and it was their stories I remember. #Quote by John Edgar Wideman

#27. The system metaphor is a story that everyone
customers, programmers, and managers
can tell about how the system works. #Quote by Kent Beck

#28. Trickster stories are pleasurable, contradictory, annoying, abrasive. They're powerful, transformational acts of liberation because they are not nailed down to the real, to the representation of something in the world. #Quote by Gerald Vizenor

#29. There are planets so far away from ours that no scientist will ever guess that they exits, let alone know the stories of their civilizations, their beginnings and ends. They're not being kept secret from us, but they're secret all the same. #Quote by John Darnielle

#30. Despite all that good news, there's plenty of horror stories being told. All of them are untrue, but they're being told all over America, #Quote by Harry Reid

#31. I mention her name and the old pain returns. Forget her, you say? How can you forget a living human being? #Quote by Sholem Aleichem

#32. The story he [Todd Willingham] told me was this: He woke up to a fire. He ran out of the house and couldn't run back in to save his children, and that was enough to get me interested ... There's a writer in me that's like, ... this is a great story ... I have a good friend, who was my neighbor at the time, and I told her about it ... She had been a reporter, and she was like, "Let's go investigate it." #Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert

#33. And nothing can we call our own but death
And that small model of the barren earth
Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings. #Quote by William Shakespeare

#34. The Christian faith grew through story - not text. Only later did the stories become Scripture. While the Scripture must be held in the highest regard, we must not neglect the power of story. #Quote by Erwin McManus

#35. The Book of Latina Women celebrates stories of the spirit and the resiliency of Latinas whose contributions have shaped history. Though the term Latina is relatively new, the spirit that goes with it carries an important legacy. For centuries, Latina women have inspired us beyond words. Their actions have sparked great change, and their spirit has made its mark on our contemporary world. #Quote by Sylvia Mendoza

#36. People like to make up stories about things they don't understand, so there are over a thousand myths about the moon. One legend claims that on the surface is everything that was wasted here on Earth: misspent time, squandered wealth, broken vows, unanswered prayers, useless tears, all the leftover bits and pieces of countless shattered lives.
If you believe in that sort of thing. #Quote by Bob Thurber