Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Jim Crace

These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.

Jess Walter

All we have is the story we tell.

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.

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.

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.

Elsa Lanchester

There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each persons story is as different as his fingertips.

Jay Asher

Because I've heard so many stories that I don't know which one is the most popular. But I do know which is the least popular. The truth.

Jason Mewes

I definitely would like to do something serious. Not like a love story, but serious like maybe a gangster or a mobster. A gang or a mob movie would be great.

Jason Momoa

For right now, I'd like to tell stories that I want to tell. I haven't wanted to use someone else's material yet, but I would with the show. It's become an integral enough part of me now, that I could definitely tell a story in this.

Jason Mraz

Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded by commonplace, but the end, instead of being decisive and well knit with that element of revelatory surprise as a well-written story should be, it usually dissipated in a succession of messy and humiliating anticlimaxes.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.

Irwin Shaw

My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever

Ira Glass

For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It's a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person and things happen to them and then something big happens and they realize something new.

Ira Glass

Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.

Isabel Allende

I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a time.

Isabel Allende

I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.

Isabel Allende

I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.

Isabel Allende

What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.

Isabel Allende

I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and grow, like a tumor, and I have to deal with it sooner or later.

The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.

Harrison Ford

I'm still interested in perfecting whatever talents I have and continuing to grow as an actor and continuing to be useful to the telling of the story.

Guy Pearce

I don't enjoy movies in 3D. I find I can't engage with the story as well.

Greg Giraldo

In catholisism we have an entire religion based on a woman who really stuck to her story

I'm the first to acknowledge those stories turned out to be wrong. But journalists get things wrong every day.

Pedro Almodovar

I remember myself at 10 years old telling stories to my sisters and brother. This is something I did through my adolescence and even through my twenties.

J. J. Abrams

Don't sell your story, just tell your story.

J. J. Abrams

Withholding things in a story is no good if you aren't building to something substantial. It becomes foreplay without the main event, and no one wants that.