All Quotes

Storage is important. Whether it's cushions you only use outside in the summer, or blankets that only come out in the winter, you've always got to think of where to store them.
‐‐ Anthea Turner

Storage problems make neon signs the most ephemeral of commercial arts.
‐‐ Virginia Postrel

Store windows are like landing pages on the website.
‐‐ Angela Ahrendts

Stores can be indifferent to something new.
‐‐ Greg Ginn

Stores don't order merchandise unless they think they can sell it right away. Manufacturers and builders don't produce unless they have buyers lined up. My business contacts describe this as a paradigm shift and they believe it's permanent.
‐‐ Janet Yellen

Stories about Diana's fashions, about possible rows between Charles and Diana, these were meat and drink.
‐‐ Andrew Morton

Stories about mental aberration and oddity only make sense in context. Just how do people live with someone who is peculiar, gifted, strange or alien? It's odd because there's a little part of me that wants to write about exotic, strange bizarre subjects. Instead, I've rather reluctantly realised that what I write about is families.
‐‐ Mark Haddon

Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.
‐‐ Olympia Dukakis

Stories about vicars are always being told because they're at the heart of our society. Vicars touch all parts of the community and see life in all its extremity.
‐‐ Tom Hollander

Stories always seem to get better with age.
‐‐ Kevin Connolly

Stories are amazing and powerful because they can resonate with people depending on their needs and experiences and speak truths we need to hear in that moment in time.
‐‐ Sue Monk Kidd

Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.
‐‐ David Antin

Stories are great, but at the end of the day, you remember that moment and that moment and that moment. 'The Avengers' had all of this great, giant action, but for all of the clever dialogue, it's the moments.
‐‐ Jeffrey Bell

Stories are hard. I have friends who knock out stories on a weekly or monthly basis, like they're running on medicinal-strength Updike. But for me a story is as daunting a prospect as a novel.
‐‐ Junot Diaz

Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
‐‐ Kate Forsyth

Stories are not explanations of the world we live in. Science does that, and math does that. Our obligation as fiction writers is to enhance the mysteries.
‐‐ Tim O'Brien

Stories are really important to people and can really change the way they understand, and even live, their lives. As such, I don't agree much with people who say, 'Calm down, it's just a story.'
‐‐ Tim Pratt

Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.
‐‐ Kate Forsyth

Stories are the only thing that I can be bothered with. It's the only way that I can do anything, even if I'm quite useless. It's the only area in being human where I could be a little useful.
‐‐ Alice Englert

Stories are the rich, unseen underlayer of the most ordinary moments.
‐‐ Mary Gaitskill

Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.
‐‐ Howard Gardner

Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.
‐‐ Brad Meltzer

Stories aren't the icing on the cake; they are the cake!
‐‐ Peter Guber

Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects when they're being written. Or at least they do for me. They're the result of thousands of decisions made at speed during revision.
‐‐ George Saunders

Stories, as we're taught in journalism school early on, are told through people. Those stories make our documentaries powerful. You can explore someone's culture, you can explore their experience, you can explore an issue through human beings who are going through it.
‐‐ Soledad O'Brien

Stories can bring alive the moral universe in a very vivid, useful, engaging way.
‐‐ Morris Gleitzman

Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
‐‐ Ben Okri

Stories can encourage us and embolden us to face ourselves and to feel. Stories can make us feel less alone. If we're reading a story that moves us, we can feel that emotion that I feel towards my father or mother or girlfriend. So they can give us late-night company.
‐‐ Tim O'Brien

Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.
‐‐ Bernie Siegel

Stories come and go. The challenge is to frame the questions that voters will be asking on polling day, such as who has avoided a global depression and worked here to deliver jobs.
‐‐ Douglas Alexander

Stories come from other shows at other studios where only 2,000 rounds were actually used and the money for the other 3,000 went right into the studio pockets. Corners were cut and that production suffered. Knock wood, that hasn't happened to us.
‐‐ Vic Morrow

Stories come to me and I don't know where they come from, but afterwards I can look back and say, 'Oh yes, that's got a little bit of me, or a little bit of my own son in it'. That's where ideas come from.
‐‐ Anthony Browne

Stories come to me in mysterious ways, more like dreams than reasoned creations.
‐‐ Anthony Browne

Stories don't interest me.
‐‐ Geoff Dyer

Stories had always been told about male genies coming out of bottles, but they were usually fat, old men. Never had the genie been a gorgeous woman, so that idea really appealed to me, and I created the series based on that premise.
‐‐ Sidney Sheldon

Stories have a special way of putting us inside the people, inside the boots of the soldiers. You're absorbed in a way a documentary or nonfiction can't do for you.
‐‐ Tim O'Brien

Stories have always been the things that entertain me and make me feel happy and sad and move me and give me the experience of being able to live many lives in one lifetime. It's the best thing about being alive.
‐‐ Michael Sheen

Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.
‐‐ David Lynch

Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.
‐‐ J. J. Abrams

Stories in which the player doesn't inhabit the main character are difficult for games to handle.
‐‐ Hideo Kojima

Stories lie deep in our souls. Stories lie so deep at the bottom of our hearts that they can bring people together on the deepest level. When I write a novel, I go into such depths.
‐‐ Haruki Murakami

Stories mimic life like certain insects mimic leaves and twigs.
‐‐ Mary Gaitskill

Stories need stupid decisions that, at the time, seem absolutely rational and necessary. Without stupid decisions, the world isn't thrown out of balance, and so there's no need for a 'rest of the story' to balance it back.
‐‐ Stephen Graham Jones

Stories of all lengths and depths come from different parts of the cave. For a novel, you must lay in mental, physical and spiritual provision as for a siege or for a time of hectic explosions, while a short story is, or can be, a steady, timed flame like the lighting of a blow lamp on a building site full of dry tinder.
‐‐ Jane Gardam

Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.
‐‐ Chinua Achebe

Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.
‐‐ Paul Auster

Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and looked up specific things about rocketry and so on, really suck.
‐‐ Frederik Pohl

Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.
‐‐ Bai Ling

Storms are sex. They exist alongside and are indifferent to words and description and dissection.
‐‐ Kevin Patterson