Famous Quotes & Sayings

Keira Knightley

All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to be able to be in them as much as I am, to see them from the first stitch in a costume to the end product.

Karen Thompson Walker

Sometimes the saddest stories take the fewest words.

Karen Thompson Walker

My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that imagined reader, which is a crucial part of learning to tell stories.

Julian Barnes

In life, every ending is just the start of another story.

Keith Richards

Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.

Ice T

Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

Jack O'Connell

It's an old story, really: seduced and corrupted, in the end, by an obsessive love for the text.

Ishmael Beah

My teeth became sour as I listened to his story. It was then that I understood why he was quiet all the time.

Isak Dinesen

It is not a bad thing in a tale that you understand only half of it.

Isak Dinesen

To be a person is to have a story to tell.

Imtiaz Ali

Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with Highway, there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended Highway to be the first film that I ever made. Didnt happen.

Hunter Parrish

I like telling stories.

Hunter Hayes

Anyone who tells you they're not nervous playing on the CMAs stage, I'm afraid they're not telling you the whole story.

Hunter Hayes

Albums are chapters. They're part of a story.

Gloria Swanson

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.

Gloria Steinem

Go out and find your own stories.That is what I want to tell you.

Geraldo Rivera

The biggest stories in 2005 were the national disasters

Harry S Truman

Any story worth telling is worth exaggerating.

J. Michael Straczynski

Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.

J. K. Rowling

No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you.

Guillermo del Toro

I only produce things that have so much in common with what I like. I wanna understand what I'm doing. I wanna understand the instincts that are going to inform the story.

Guillermo del Toro

Never fly commercial. That's the moral of this story.

If Carter had been there when the AIDS crisis came up, it would have been a whole different story. It could have been treated like a legitimate disease.

Gloria Feldt

The most effective medium is yourself and the power you communicate by your intention and your story.

Giacomo Casanova

The story she had told me was possible, but it was not believable.

Ian MacKaye

The American underground punk scene, though, is a story worth remembering.

Ian Mcewan

I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'

Anthony Shadid

I don't think there's any story worth dying for, but I do think there are stories worth taking risks for.

Hunter S. Thompson

The first paragraph. The last paragraph. That's where the story is going and how it's going to end. Or else you'll go off in a hundred different directions.

Howard Dean

What I usually do is tell funny stories from the road, many of which are, of course, unprintable. But I don't actually have a joke. I don't tell jokes much. I tell little stories.

Harvey Weinstein

Like Rodgers and Hammerstein, I'm not afraid to deal with themes about the ups and downs of life, yet which are still entertaining, and you still feel these stories.

J. R. R. Tolkien

But you speak of Master Gandalf, as if he was in a story that had come to an end.' 'Yes, we do,' said Pippin sadly. 'The story seems to be going on, but I am afraid Gandalf has fallen out of it.

J. R. R. Tolkien

If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards.