Famous Quotes & Sayings

There will be a lot of stories about this thing for a lot of years,

There were some real high-profile stories of corruption. That really got people's attention.

S. Robson Walton

I went to Vortex and Vortex is a whole 'nother story.

Sam Keen

To really love a person completely is to come to a point where your stories are intertwined.

Sam Keen

The telling of your stories is a revolutionary act.

Roy H. Williams

A good story often increases the salability of an item without increasing its actual value.

Stockwell Day

For some decades now, it seems, there has been a ukase in place in American journalism to the effect that Canada is entitled to one story per season.

Stewart Udall

I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, 'Henry, have you made your peace with God?' Thoreau said, 'I didn't know we'd quarreled.

Steve Earle

Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.

Stephen Sondheim

The Tonys ignored West Side Story. The Tonys ignored Gypsy. It's a kind of public humiliation.

Stephen Sondheim

The last collaborator is your audience ... when the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written. Things that seem to work well -- work in a sense of carry the story forward and be integral to the piece -- suddenly become a little less relevant or a little less functional or a little overlong or a little overweight or a little whatever. And so you start reshaping from an audience.

Mona Simpson

We all — in the end — die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories.

Mira Nair

If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will.

Miranda Cosgrove

Some of my favorite movies are just movies that are just good stories, and aren't necessarily big budget movies or anything.

Peter Kreeft

Things look different when history is seen as His-story.

Peter Gabriel

Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story.

Paz Vega

I like small stories.

Phil Crosby

Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.

Peter Carey

You could not tell a story like this. A story like this you could only feel.

Piers Anthony

For our stories are not yet finished, and perhaps will never be.

Philip Pullman

Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories.

Philip Pullman

I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many, many times.

Philip Pullman

Disney is a huge presence when it comes to fairy tales because he's made of them such brilliant artifacts in terms of movie-making. But it's very hard to ignore what he's done to them.I'm not interested in denigrating Disney or even commenting on him very much. I'm more interested in seeing what I can do with the stories myself.

Philip Pullman

I'm with the Grimms on this: stories for young and old. You can't characterize them any better than that.

Philip Pullman

All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They teach it much more effectively than moral precepts and instructions.

Rachel Cohn

It still might be a shock. To realize you are just one story walking among millions.

Q-Tip

You can tell how good a filmmaker is if you can turn the sound down but you can still feel the story.

Ted Naifeh

A story really isnt truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion.

Randall Munroe

But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.

Sebastiao Salgado

I work on stories rather than individual pictures.

Si Robertson

All of my stories are 95 percent truthful.

Shelley Hennig

My favorite movie is Closer and Love Story.

Seymour Hersh

We're going to be really ashamed of ourselves when this whole story about Guantanamo comes out. Guantanamo is a really depraved place...