Famous Quotes & Sayings

Denis Johnson

We can’t always tell the whole story about ourselves.

Denis Johnson

I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

Edgar Allan Poe

You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.

Eleanor Roosevelt

About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.

Eduardo Galeano

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me.

Elizabeth Bishop

I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him every ridiculous sentence of the way. How can they let him do it?

Elizabeth Edwards

A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.

Elizabeth Bowen

every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as an experiment, worth making?

Elizabeth Bowen

Story involves action. Action towards an end not to be foreseen (by the reader) but also towards an end which, having been reached, must be seen to have been from the start inevitable.

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.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Franklin P. Adams

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

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.

Donald Davis

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

Aristotle

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

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.

Kiefer Sutherland

I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.

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.

Kevin Spacey

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

Scott Eastwood

I grew up on movie sets, getting to see storytelling happen up close.