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.

Dale Carnegie

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Dale Carnegie

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

Dani Shapiro

I found myself doing so much public speaking, more and more and bigger and bigger.

Claudius

Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.

Franklin P. Adams

Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

George Bancroft

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

Terry Bradshaw

I enjoy my public speaking. That's what I love doing. It's what I'm good at.

Billy Campbell

To me, the AMC brand is great storytelling - they call it slow-burn storytelling.

Aristotle

When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.

Donald Davis

Storytelling is not what I do for a living - it is how I do all that I do while I am living.

John Carpenter

Directing is all about storytelling. It's not about equipment, or anything else.

Kevin Spacey

Gaming is going into storytelling. It was a new audience.

Kevin Costner

The western will always be here. And it just depends on how good you make one. And one movie doesn't kill it. And one movie doesn't preserve it. It's storytelling. It's a very American thing. I'll continue to do it.

Julianna Baggott

The basic rule of storytelling is 'show, don't tell.

Margaret Atwood

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

Margaret Atwood

Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back; it was always there in oral storytelling.