Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Monette

The fountain of youth is like the monkeys paw in the W. W. Jacobs story. It never ends well.

Sara Sheridan

For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.

Sanjay Dutt

Parineeta is a classic love story.

Sarah Polley

So I decided to make a film about our need to tell stories, to own our stories, to understand them, and to have them heard.

Rob Marshall

Maybe because I come from choreography, I've always felt that there's something about action films that made it very natural for me to go that way. It's story through movement.

Rebecca Miller

Deirdre Maddon has an extraordinary, almost celestial way of telling a story. There are so many great writers now - although I also want to go back and read all of Dickens again.

Tucker Max

TV has a longer narrative, and TV's more like short stories. So there's less rules with TV; you can make it a little bit different. [With] movies, the medium has more constraints, so it was just about what stories are the most cinematic and the best resolution.

Vera Farmiga

I chase after inspiring stories.

Uma Thurman

I wanted to seem completely invisible but whenever you're saying someone else's words and relaying the story of someone else's life, it's not you.

Tori Spelling

My whole life story is kind of a backhanded compliment.

Robert Graves

There is one story and one story only.

Rudyard Kipling

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

Sandra Cisneros

The stories are what no one wants to talk about. So you make up a story because no one is going to tell you the truth.

Ruth Ozeki

Every seed has a story.

Roddy Doyle

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.

Robert Penn Warren

You don’t choose a story, it chooses you.

Will Packer

For me, I look at a project that has a story that's going to resonate in some way. It doesn't have to be about a message. It doesn't have to have some underlying theme of overwhelming importance.

Walter Benjamin

History breaks down into images, not into stories.

Samuel Richardson

In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION.

Salma Hayek

Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories.

Salman Rushdie

No story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old.

Salman Rushdie

Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old--it is the new combinations that make them new.

Salman Rushdie

Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

Salman Rushdie

Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.

Salman Rushdie

What's the use of stories that aren't even true?

Salman Rushdie

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

Vincent Bugliosi

The discrepancy or contradiction is the entire story. And being the entire story, it by itself discredits the entire twenty-six volumes of the Warren Commission. Nothing else has to be shown or even argued.

Ursula K. Le Guin

For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you just reach up and pick it.

Tyra Banks

Every woman has a story.

Twyla Tharp

In the end all collaborations are love stories.

William Graham Sumner

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.

William Golding

I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.

Stephen Chbosky

Not everyone has a sob story, Charlie, and even if they do, it's no excuse.