Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Joel

There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.

Edith Wharton

The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form.

Ben Whishaw

Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.

Ben Whishaw

I love films. I love music. I love poetry and stories. All of that I feel I sort of get very excited and fed by.

Beatrix Potter

I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.

Barry Bonds

I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.

Audre Lorde

What do we want from each other after we have told our stories

Dee Wallace

A really good horror film has a story.

Dick Cavett

I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples' stories.

Edward Snowden

The question for us is not what new story will come out next. The question is, what are we going to do about it?

Eliza Dushku

No matter how many times you forget it, you can turn around and help someone. Or you can deliver a positive message or share with someone or just listen to someone share their story with you, it's just the best gift there is. And it's free.

Bill Nighy

I'm not famous for my back story investigations; I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.

Carolyn Porco

The quest for the truth, in and of itself, Is a story that's filled with insights.

Carl Barks

I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.

C. S. Lewis

But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman.

Beth Orton

I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to justify his painting.

Bernard Malamud

First drafts are for learning what your story is about.

Bob Kane

How can an article about me or the Batman be the true story when I am not consulted or interviewed?

Edgar Rice Burroughs

I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.

Bela Lugosi

I'll take any story if it's good.

Arundhati Roy

Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.

Demi Lovato

Every life has a purpose. Share your story and you may help someone find their own.

Diane Setterfield

Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories.

Diane Setterfield

A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.

Diane Setterfield

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

Dhani Jones

When it all boils down, its about embracing each others stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good.

David A. Siegel

Her [ Onata April] great talent as an actress is that she has the ability to understand and listen to the scenario and what the story is, and then she can pretend and live that.

Kurt Busiek

Mainly, what I like to do is keep things varied and not get in a rut, not tell the same stories over and over.

Sandra Cisneros

One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times.

Brent Spiner

Hollywood has more than its share of harsh and crewel stories. In fact, it's probably more the norm than the exception.

Bret Easton Ellis

Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.

Bruce Feiler

There's a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It's a narrative of hope.

Brendon Burchard

Your ultimate life experience and legacy is being built moment by moment, day by day. Your story is being crafted by your every action, all leading somewhere, all leading to what one hopes will be a magnificent crescendo.