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.

Bertrand Russell

Logic must no more admit a unicorn than zoology can.

Anderson Cooper

We'd be happy to have more fair treatment in the media, but I'm not going to find unicorns on my doorstep tomorrow.

Rachel Maddow

That was like seeing a dodo and a unicorn all wrapped up in one

Joe Rogan

A unicorn is a donkey from the future

Peter S. Beagle

There are no happy endings, because nothing ends.

Peter S. Beagle

...no place is more enchanted than where a unicorn has been born.

Alexander the Great

True love never has a happy ending, because there is no ending to true love.

Andy Stanley

I've concluded that while nobody plans to mess up their life, the problem is that a few of us plan not to. That is, we don't put the necessary safeguards in place to ensure a happy ending.

Jodi Picoult

Everyone deserves a happy ending.

Neil Gaiman

Not only are there no happy endings,' she told him, 'there aren't even any endings.

George R. R. Martin

There are no happy endings.

George R. R. Martin

I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.

Isaac Asimov

There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.

Gregory Maguire

Happy endings are still endings.

Federico Fellini

Marriage, if it is to survive, must be treated as the beginning, not as the happy ending.