Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

Jane Austen

I can always live by my pen.

Delia Ephron

I have one rule I live by: Only do what you can do. That neans you're never looking outside for what's popular; you're always looking inside for what's true.

Andrea Corr

I don't really live by plans.

Mike Brady

Exact words are hard to live by.

Pliny the Elder

We live by reposing trust in each other.

John Cage

...we make our lives by what we love.

John Fowles

The dead live." "How do they live?" "By love.

Sylvia Plath

I have stitched life into me like a rare organ

Robert Kiyosaki

You choose the #life you live. If you don't like it, it's on you to change it because no one else is going to do it for you.

Barbara Deming

We cannot live without our lives

John Powell

Our lives are shaped by those who love us

Dogen

Consider that nirvana is itself no other than our life.

Berkeley Breathed

Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.

Albert Einstein

Our lives will be measured by what we do for others

Margaret Haddix

We'll have a 'rest of our lives' now,

Manny Pacquiao

If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.

Richard Rohr

If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.

Richard Rohr

God comes to us disguised as our life.