There’s a story behind everything…but behind all your stories is always your mother’s story…because hers is where yours begins.

Don’t lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid; you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize.

The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.

Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough to get there but slow enough to see. Moderation seems to be the key.

We are our choices. Build yourself a great story.

I’ve seen the nations rise and fall. I’ve heard their stories, heard them all, but love’s the only engine of survival.

The stories we hear in our childhood are the ones we remember all our lives.

Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.

You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness.

Everyone in their life has his own particular way of expressing life’s purpose – the lawyer his eloquence, the painter his palette, and the man of letters his pen from which the quick words of his story flow. I have my bicycle.

Stories are not about ideas, gimmicks, or places. Stories are about people. People are about feelings!

Be honest about what you see, get out of the way and let the story reveal itself

If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can’t survive.

It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

If people are eating mostly pickles after many generations, where did that come from? It’s reflective of history, often a painful history. It’s central to a culture, to a history, to a personal story. It’s communication at its most fundamental.

Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that’s a very sad thing. It’s film only as a function of consumerism rather than as an important component of our culture, and that’s everywhere around the world.

Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.

It’s probably not an accident that the films that I care about happen to be about issues that matter to me, stories that I want to tell. If you’re going to spend two years of your life on something it has to matter to you, you have to be passionate about it.

The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.

Time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of glory days.

Sometimes, I get ideas from dreams. Often, my stories are based on adventures that I, or my friends, have actually lived.

You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.

This is life. Our bodies change. Our minds change. Our hearts change. Things are always evolving. I hope we can be supportive of each other and try to really have each other’s backs, especially when we don’t know the whole story.

As a writer I’m essentially just trying to impersonate a first-time reader, who picks up the story and has to decide, at every point, whether to keep going.

Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you’re younger. But I haven’t abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It’s just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can’t convincingly portray at this age.

Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.

All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.

History is full of really good stories. That’s the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.

Until Sammy Baugh – pro football in Texas was a one-paragraph story on the third page of the Monday sports section.

Stories aren’t the icing on the cake; they are the cake!

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

I never set out to make any statements about a specific character, I just set out to tell what feels like is a truthful story, a person that you and I might truly encounter.

Exercise your purchasing power as a consumer, volunteer and bring joy to those in need, and share your experiences, tell your stories, and inspire others along the way.

A lost coin is found by means of a candle; the deepest truth is found by means of a simple story.