Quotes tagged ‘Stories’

“All this will be for nothing. We will have been for nothing. Defined by their histories, distorted to fit into their narrative, until all that is left of us are the monsters in the stories they tell their children.”

— Robert Levine, Jonathan E. Steinberg, Captain Flint, Toby Stephens, imdb.com

“Mike Milligan: There's a man. Ben Schmidt: What—what man? Mike Milligan: Just a man. He works in a factory. One day, the boss gets it in his mind that this man is stealing from him. So, every night at the gate, the guards search his wheelbarrow. But they never find anything. Ben Schmidt: Pat him dow…”

— Matt Wolpert, Ben Nedivi, Noah Hawley, Mike Milligan, Bokeem Woodbine, imdb.com

“We deserve to have our stories told in the mainstream — the good, the bad, and the ugly — but it is worth thinking about whose comfort is being prioritized when it comes to the way those stories are packaged and sold.”

— Shannon Keating, buzzfeed.com

“And the princess and the idiot decided that their kiss didn't mean anything. [JD as The Village Idiot and Elliot as The Princess shake hands] Because in the end... they were both idiots.”

— Mark Stegemann, Perry Cox, John C. McGinley, imdb.com

“Slowly, like a movie fade out, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favorite feeling in the world.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“Books and writers give such immense and unexpected comfort, it really is something else. Grateful, as ever.”

— Lisa Lucas, twitter.com

“You think you're the painter, but you're the canvas.”

— John Green, amazon.com

“And by hearing all the stories we will find points of contact and communication, and the world story, the Great Story, will have a chance to develop. That’s the only precaution I would suggest—that we not rush into announcing the arrival of this international, this great world story, based simply on…”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

“There is no story that is not true.”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

“I’m preparing to binge every episode of The Handmaid’s Tale. The show’s lack of transgender characters, whether intentional or unintentional, brings up a lot of questions about what the future may hold for the trans community in a dystopian world.”

— Jessie Earl, advocate.com

“For me, seriously, my goal is to topple the structures of toxic hierarchy. On as many levels as I can. All at once. I want damn equality and that is why I write these books. Stories make the world.”

— Maria Dahvana Headley, twitter.com

“We have been hemorrhaging great work for decades, partly because we are so bad at seeing it.”

— Lili Loofbourow, theguardian.com

“The truth won't make people listen unless it is sufficiently awful.”

— Jessica Knoll, amazon.com

“I'm not a religious man, but I've read bits and pieces over the years. Curiosity more than faith. But this one story… There was a man, he was traveling from Jerusalem to Jericho when he was set upon by men of ill intent. They stripped the traveler of his clothes, they beat him, and they left him ble…”

— Steven S. DeKnight, Wilson Fisk, Vincent D'Onofrio, imdb.com

“Read more books, I guess, is what I’m trying to say. Read stories about other people, other emotions. Get emotions that you can’t get from daily life just now.”

— Sam Sykes, twitter.com

“The real story in all these stories is that sharing personal narratives functions as a sort of group therapy session, helping everyone involved: The teller lightens her psychological burden, while listeners can have an emotionally rich and, it turns out, physically healing experience.”

— Leslie Goldman, oprah.com

“Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.”

— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com

“Good story, but in what chapter do you shut the fuck up?”

— Unknown, thoughtcatalog.com

“Even if they like it, people will remember the plot twist, the worldbuilding, the gimmick only until they find the next one. But they’ll never, ever forget a character they like.”

— Sam Sykes, twitter.com

“For me, movies are not about escaping reality — they’re about reminding us that reality is bigger and more magical than what we walk around thinking. They take us outside of ourselves, which is as real as our interior lives, and, sometimes, remind us of the importance of love.”

— James Gunn, twitter.com