Stories Quotes (2062 quotes)

Picture of quotation author Chris Zylka
„My mentor Jon Simmons introduced me to the Stanislavski system, which is so heavy on back-story. So you write and write and write these back stories about a character and then you throw it away. So then on set, if it doesn't come, then you didn't do your work.“
― Chris Zylka ―
Picture of quotation author Alan Zweibel
„I am not an actor. Yes, every so often I appear on talk shows to promote something I've written, and I enjoy doing so because I have a lot of stories to tell, and I like making audiences laugh. But that's not acting. That's just me being me.“
― Alan Zweibel ―
Picture of quotation author Ethan Zuckerman
„When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.“
― Ethan Zuckerman ―
Picture of quotation author Mark Zuckerberg
„Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories... We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that's out there.“
― Mark Zuckerberg ―
Picture of quotation author Zig Ziglar
„Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.“
― Zig Ziglar ―
Picture of quotation author Zig Ziglar
„I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.“
― Zig Ziglar ―
Picture of quotation author Dasha Zhukova
„I guess artists are living inspiration. There's something very pure about a person that fantasizes. I like hearing their stories, watching them work. Their take on the world interests me. It's not unified.“
― Dasha Zhukova ―
Picture of quotation author Sarah Zettel
„I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.“
― Sarah Zettel ―
Picture of quotation author Sarah Zettel
„Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work.“
― Sarah Zettel ―
Picture of quotation author Fareed Zakaria
„I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.“
― Fareed Zakaria ―
Picture of quotation author Fareed Zakaria
„CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.“
― Fareed Zakaria ―
Picture of quotation author Koren Zailckas
„I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.“
― Koren Zailckas ―
Picture of quotation author Pia Zadora
„I like to see love stories: romantic comedy or romantic drama.“
― Pia Zadora ―
Picture of quotation author Eliezer Yudkowsky
„An anthropologist will not excitedly report of a newly discovered tribe: 'They eat food! They breathe air! They use tools! They tell each other stories!' We humans forget how alike we are, living in a world that only reminds us of our differences.“
Picture of quotation author Zhang Yimou
„I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories.“
― Zhang Yimou ―
Picture of quotation author Charlyne Yi
„I like fiction. I love all sorts of love stories, I think. I even watched '17 Again.'“
― Charlyne Yi ―
Picture of quotation author Donnie Yen
„I love working with older actors because number one, I can learn so much from them because they have so much experience. And it's fun to hear their stories from their era, some of the jokes.“
― Donnie Yen ―
Picture of quotation author Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
„Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.“
Picture of quotation author Mo Yan
„I heard so many stories from Gaomi's peasants that I had an irrepressible urge to write them down. Today, Gaomi's peasants know that they have become famous around the world through my writings, but I think they are a little puzzled by this.“
― Mo Yan ―
Picture of quotation author J. H. Wyman
„I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.“
― J. H. Wyman ―

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