Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oprah Winfrey

Everybody has a story. And there's something to be learned from every experience.

Oliver North

Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story

Margaret Atwood

It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you're telling it, to yourself or to someone else.

Margaret Atwood

If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending... But if it's a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone. You don't tell a story only to yourself. There's always someone else. Even when there is no one.

Margaret Atwood

The true story is vicious and multiple and untrue after all. Why do you need it? Don’t ever ask for the true story.

Margaret Atwood

In the end, we'll all become stories.

Margaret Cho

It’s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else’s story.

Margaret Atwood

Kafka thought his stories were hilarious. We don't necessarily have that reaction to them, but he certainly laughed his head off every time he read them out loud.

Lauren Oliver

We all need mantras, I guess - stories we tell ourselves to keep us going.

If you tell the same story five times, it's true.

Paul Michael Glaser

Isn't any friendship a love story?

Paul Merton

I have never sold my story, done Hello! magazine, any of that stuff. I'm not guilty of exploiting my private life for cash and then saying, 'Oh, I don't want to talk about my private life.' I've never crossed that line.

Patricia MacLachlan

I never work from an outline, and often I dont know how the story will end.

Lorrie Moore

If prose can cast a spell, we will listen to it no matter what it's saying. If a narrative uses language in a magical and enlivening way, we will listen to the story. But if the language doesn't cast a spell, we will listen to it only if it is telling us something that actually happened.

Liya Kebede

I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that.

Margaret Mahy

I'm the Beast. You're the Beauty," he said. "It's all a story, isn't it?

Michael Cunningham

we become the stories we tell ourselves

Michael Crichton

Story of our species...everyone knows it's coming, but not so soon.

Mark Twain

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

Martin Freeman

Sherlock and Watson are a love story

Marilyn Monroe

That's the story of my life; I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.

Nikki Giovanni

I'm an old storyteller. [When] I tell the story, it's about the story.

Nicole Krauss

I know there is a moral to this story, but I don't know what it is.

Matt Drudge

There's nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world.

Nicholas Sparks

Who am I? And how, I wonder, will this story end?

Nicholas Sparks

Whenever I work on a film, I have three rules. Only three and I tell them to every screenwriter. I say let's retain the spirit and the intent of the overall story. Let's make it the best film that we possibly can.

John Green

And the moral of the story is that you don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. And the second moral of the story, if a story can have multiple morals, is that Dumpers are not inherently worse than Dumpees - breaking up isn't something that gets done to you; it's something that happens with you.

John Green

I wanted to, you know, get my story out in the world, which, it turns out, is a very misguided notion.

John Green

As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know.

P. T. Barnum

No profession, trade, or calling, is overcrowded in the upper story.

P. G. Wodehouse

I don’t know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I’m telling a story is this dashed difficult problem of where to begin it.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

The truth is not so good a story.

Marion Cotillard

Every Story is different, Every Movie is different, Every Director is different.