Famous Quotes & Sayings

Guy deBord

The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive… compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic.

Guy deBord

With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable reasoning.

Gillian Flynn

There are no really new stories anymore.

Gillian Jacobs

I have a lot of good stories for talk shows about the conditions in which I worked.

Frederik Pohl

In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.

Fred Barnes

Ronald Reagan has a story for every occasion. Bill Clinton has an excuse for every occasion.

Erich Auerbach

The Scripture stories do not, like Homer’s, court our favor, they do not flatter us that they may please us and enchant us—they seek to subject us, and if we refuse to be subjected we are rebels.

Frank Iero

If you lose count of how many cookies you ate, the calorie intake ceases to exist. True story.

Frank Rich

Someday we'll learn the whole story of why George W. Bush brushed off that intelligence briefing of Aug. 6, 2001, 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.' But surely a big distraction was the major speech he was readying for delivery on Aug. 9, his first prime-time address to the nation.

Christiane Amanpour

And one thing that I always believed and that I knew for certain was that I could never have sustained a personal relationship while I worked this hard, or while I was that driven this intensely by the story.

Chris Hayes

Politico reports, multiple advisers to the Right To Rise super Pac concede privately that the $40 million spent on positive ads aimed at telling Bush`s story yielded no tangible dividends.

George W. Bush

The advance of freedom is the great story of our time

Gene Robinson

I'll be at Lambeth telling my story

Frederick Buechner

the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all

Frank Turner

We're definitely going to hell. But we'll have all the best stories to tell

Federico Garcia Lorca

If I told you the whole story it would never end...What's happened to me has happened to a thousand woman.

Faith Prince

I'm from the South, so I tend to tell stories. That's how we express ourselves.

Faith Hill

I don't know why 'happy' can't be a story.

Eve Ensler

When you listen to other women’s stories, you begin to understand your own better, and you begin to find ways back through and with each other.

Francis Ford Coppola

I have always credited the writer of the original material above the title: Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Bram Stoker's Dracula, or John Grisham's The Rainmaker. I felt that I didn't have the right to Francis Coppola's anything unless I had written the story and the screenplay.

Erwin McManus

Whoever tells the best story shapes the culture.

Erle Stanley Gardner

If you like the story then don't hold back in telling me about it, and if you don't then please keep your opinions to yourself!

Flannery O'Connor

The meaning of the story is the story.

Flannery O'Connor

A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle.

Flannery O'Connor

When you can state the theme of a story, when you can separate it from the story itself, then you can be sure the story is not a very good one.

Helen Keller

There's only one story, the story of your life.

Cassandra Clare

All the stories are true

Cassandra Clare

Please tell me you did not bring me out here so you could tell me a very boring story about your sister.

Cassandra Clare

Appearances are significant, and never more than in politics. You can always sway the crowd, provided you have a good story.

Cassandra Clare

Without conflict there is no plot, without hope there is no story

Jason Katims

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

Takafumi Horie

As for the stories in the press, I have no idea who researched them, or how.

David Moore

They don't know how interesting their stories are to us.