Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

Alan Rickman

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

Alan Rickman

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

Alan Rickman

I like it when stories are left open.

Alan Moore

This is an IMAGINARY STORY...aren't they all?

Alan Moore

Everybody has their story to tell.

Alan Ball

I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.

Chris Cleave

Our stories are the tellers of us.

Chris Cleave

We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

Chris Colfer

A villain is just a victim whose story hasn’t been told.

Chinua Achebe

Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

Chinua Achebe

In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.

Chinua Achebe

There is no story that is not true.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Stories matter. Many stories matter.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told — are really dependent on power.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.

Darren Shan

He says every story has at least some truth in it, even if most are made up.

David Strathairn

Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.

Byron Katie

The last story: God is everything, God is good.

Byron Katie

We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.

Byron Katie

There is no story that is you or that leads to you. Every story leads away from you.

Byron Katie

You are what exists before all stories.

Byron Katie

Who would you be without your story?

Byron Katie

The Work always leaves you with less of a story. Who would you be without your story? You never know until you inquire. There is no story that is you or that leads to you. Every story leads away from you. Turn it around; undo it. You are what exists before all stories. You are what remains when the story is understood.

Byron Katie

No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.

Byron Katie

You are the effect of your story, that's all.

Caroline B. Cooney

What more can life hold, than to know that because of your story, somebody out there has decided to read again!

Catherynne M. Valente

…everything has a narrative, really, and if you can’t understand a story and relate to it, figure out how you fit inside it, you’re not really alive at all.

Casey Stoner

Everyone seems quite good at stories and making them up.

Mark Cuban

Linking without permission is stealing. Period, end of story.

Ai Weiwei

Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.

Bob Woodward

Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.