Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Schudson

The story of journalism, on a day-to-day basis, is the story of the interaction of reporters and officials

Markus Zusak

Yes, I'm often reminded of her, and in one of my array of pockets, I have kept her story to retell. It is one of the small legion I carry, each one extraordinary in its own right. Each one an attempt - an immense leap of an attempt - to prove to me that you, and your human existence, are worth it.

Michael Hastings

The way the Pentagon and its defenders have pushed back against this story is to say: "They weren't doing psychological operations, they were doing information operations and public affairs. They were just helping us spin senators like we normally do."

Michael Hastings

By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained.

Christina Baldwin

History is what scholars and conquerors say happened; story is what it was like to live on the ground.

Christina Baldwin

We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story.

Christina Ricci

I really liked it. It was awesome - my first tabloid story. If you're going to have a tabloid story written about you, it might as well be with Johnny Depp.

Chris Noth

I don't know the politics of Hollywood. Am I hungry for great material? Every actor is. How I can get to it, that's another story.

Gerard Way

All of my favourite albums have this incredible amount of conceptual glue to them, even if they are not telling a story.

Hayao Miyazaki

You always have to appeal to your audience. You always have to consider how well your project will do in terms of admissions. I abandoned many stories because of that. But I don't get too down about it. It's something I accepted from the time I decided to work in films.

Francesca Lia Block

Our stories can set us free. When we set them free.

George Saunders

When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

But how could you live and have no story to tell?

Nancy Werlin

Always remember: In the end, the surviver gets to tell the story.

Jose Canseco

I'm just basically telling a story of my life.

Jorge Luis Borges

Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.

Kevin Spacey

I can imagine there is going to come a time when someone will do 13 hours of a story without breaks.

Kevin Bacon

I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.

James Packer

History is His story.

James P. Hoffa

It's a success story here in Michigan. We have hiring going on. We have new industries going on.

James Patterson

I love to tell stories. It's a delight for me.

James Patterson

What are we but our stories?

James O'Shaughnessy

History depends on who is telling the story.

Henri Matisse

If my story were ever to be written truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone.

Henri Nouwen

...we all want to hear stories, from the moment we are born to the moment we die. Stories connect our little lives with the world around us and help us discover who we are.

Heinrich Heine

Graves they say are warm'd by glory; Foolish words and empty story.

Hilarie Burton

Everybody wants a sensational story.

Henry James

Make the short story tremendously succinct - with a very short pulse or rhythm - and the closest selection of detail - in other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form

Helen Dunmore

We are creatures of story.

Kathy Reichs

Bones tell me the story of a person's life — how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background,

Kurt Busiek

I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.

Khaled Hosseini

So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one.