Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patton Oswalt

Based on my own experience, when you're going through adolescence you don't know how the world works. You can't set a story in the world you live in because you don't know what a utility bill is, or how to budget your paycheck.

Mary Oliver

We do not love anything more deeply than we love a story...

Pope Francis

The whole of salvation history is the story of God looking for us: he offers us love and welcomes us with tenderness.

Pete Townshend

I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.

Paulo Coelho

Imagine a new story for your life and start living it.

Paulo Coelho

All love stories are the same.

Primo Levi

Perhaps Kafka laughed when he told stories [. . . ] because one isn't always equal to oneself.

Victor Hugo

Another story must begin!

Richard Bach

True enjoy stories never ever have endings.

Richard Bach

That’s why love stories don’t have endings! They don’t have endings because love doesn’t end.

Richard Dreyfuss

By telling my own story, I hope to help remove the stigma. It never should be something to hide.

Robert McKee

Stories are the currency of human relationships.

Robert McKee

Story is about originality, not duplication

Robert McKee

Story is about eternal, universal forms, not formulas.

Robert McKee

Life is chaotic and meaningless, and you have to find your meaning. You must find the answer, you can't just live. That's the point of story: helping you find your meaning in life.

Robert McKee

The material of literary talent is words; the material of story talent is life itself.

Robert McKee

Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.

Robert McKee

The Business story is designed to trigger the listener to take an effective action. If it doesn't, the story fails.

Robert Greene

Jay-Z is more naturally gifted. He didn't depend as much as 50 did on his personal story. Jay-Z has a great story, he came from a pretty rough background. But 50's early success was so much fueled on the story and where he came from. With Jay-Z, I feel he has a more natural gift for language and for music itself. 50 really had to study and work at it much harder.

Vita Sackville-West

When, and how, and at what stage of our development did spirituality and our strange notions of religion arise? the need for worship which is nothing more than our frightened refuge into propitiation of a Creator we do not understand? A detective story, the supreme Who-done-it, written in indecipherable hieroglyphics, no Rosetta stone supplied by the consummate Mystifier to tease us poor fumbling unravellers of his plot.

Sarah Dessen

An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.

Sarah Dessen

But those words were only the middle of the story. There was a beginning here, too.

Sarah Dessen

I wondered which was harder, in the end. The act of telling, or who you told it to. Or maybe if, when you finally got it out, the story was really all that mattered.

Sandra Bullock

Every movie is a love story.

Rohinton Mistry

So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different

Roland Barthes

Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.

Roland Barthes

He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.

Rod Stewart

Every picture tells a story, don't it?

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

I am drawn to Americana, and I am drawn to gothic stories, and I love American gothic stories.

Roberta Williams

A good story never dies.

Robert Plant

I have no story. My story goes from day to day.

Sarah Zettel

First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien life out there? It's also about politics.

Sarah Monette

What makes a story a story is that something changes. Internal, external, small or large, trivial or of earth-shattering importance. Doesn't matter.