Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. R. R. Tolkien

True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.

J. R. R. Tolkien

True education is a kind of never-ending story . . .

Iyanla Vanzant

Tell your story because your story will heal you and it will heal someone else.

Iyanla Vanzant

If it's not your story to tell, you don't tell it.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Actually, the true story of a person's life can never be written. It is beyond the power of literature. The full tale of any life would be both utterly boring and utterly unbelievable.

Elton John

Until I can visualise what the lyrics are about and see the story or whatever, I can't hear the melody.

Paul Hawken

Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; Right is where the movement is.

Paul Auster

Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.

Pat Conroy

A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.

Pat Conroy

A story untold could be the one that kills you.

Juno Temple

I'm so excited to see 'Horns' because it's so many different genres in one film. It's a sci-fi, it's a love story, it's a horror movie, it's a fairy tale.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The universe is not made up of atoms; it’s made up of tiny stories.

Lisi Harrison

One of the best things you can relate to is a detailed story.

Patrick Ness

It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat.

Patrick Ness

Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.

Patrick Rothfuss

All stories are true.

Patrick Rothfuss

All the truth in the world is held in stories.

Patrick Rothfuss

This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we can talk.

Patrick Rothfuss

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

Margot Asquith

the announcement that you are going to tell a good story (and the chuckle that precedes it) is always a dangerous opening.

Marguerite Moreau

I like working in any medium. Who's making it? How much do I like the story? Does it contribute something?

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties.

Mark Wahlberg

I would definitely like to direct at some point. I've been very fortunate to work with some amazing talent and study them. But when the right time and the right story arrives, and I feel like I'm compelled to tell it, then I'll do that.

R. Kelly

If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.

Nic Pizzolatto

As human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by — so you’d better be careful what stories you tell yourself.

Jerry picked up the technique of visualizing the story as a movie scenario; and whenever he gave me a script, I would see it as a screenplay. That was the technique that Jerry used, and I just picked it up.

Joe Strummer

everybody has a story to tell

Jodi Picoult

Once you call something a story, it's set in stone. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that can't be transformed, because by definition, if you do that, it's not the same story anymore

Ken Follett

I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next.

Ken Follett

Most of my stories have some basis in fact.

Keanu Reeves

Hallelujah! Amen! Christianity is so inherent in western story-telling, you can't really get around it. But it wasn't something that drew me to it more or less.

Keanu Reeves

I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more.

Oprah Winfrey

The stories that you tell yourself can make or break you - no matter who you are.