Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Kingsolver

This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market.

Barbara Kingsolver

There's always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.

Barbara Kingsolver

No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.

Augusten Burroughs

I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors.

Arthur Machen

Old stories often turn out to be true.

Denis Johnson

We can’t always tell the whole story about ourselves.

Denis Johnson

I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

Edgar Allan Poe

You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.

Eleanor Roosevelt

About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.

Eduardo Galeano

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me.

Atul Gawande

And in stories, endings matter.

Atul Gawande

In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.

David S. Goyer

What I really like to do is write 'genre' stories without a cartoonish element. I did the same with 'Da Vinci's Demons,' and I'll do the same with 'Man of Steel.'

Big stories have lots of angles, and you have to decide what part of that story you want to address.

Shepard Smith

I look for those moments that are 'gee whiz' moments. There's some 'gee whiz' stories in our show, and they can't be written like A-1 in the Times. They have to be written more like Page 6 in the Post.

Lynn Cohen

Not all stories translate well when read out loud.

Barbara Corcoran

The story of my billion-dollar business starts like this. I borrowed $1,000 from a friend.

Charles Soule

There are fantastic stories yet to be told featuring Marvel's characters, old and new, and I'm thrilled to be part of them.

Laurie Holden

I'm not interested in playing the victim. I like stories about survivors.

Adam Braun

Your life should be a story you are excited to tell.

Adam Braun

Make your life a story worth telling,

Aaron Paul

I love stories that put you on the edge of your seat and make you feel something.

A. S. Byatt

Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.

Adrienne Rich

If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?

Agatha Christie

I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.

Adriana Trigiani

Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story.

Adam Johnson

A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.

Adam Ant

I always like to tell a story.

Abe Fortas

Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.

Aleksandar Hemon

There's a social and human necessity for some kind of continuity, but it's not axiomatic and not something you're born into; it's something you have to work at. And one of the ways to work at it - perhaps the best - is storytelling: telling stories about yourself to others, telling stories about yourself to yourself, telling stories about others to others.

Alan Rickman

Unless we tell stories about ourselves, which is all that theater is, we're in deep trouble.

Marc Morial

There are, as is the case, conflicting stories about what may have happened,

This story is one of the more overblown stories I have ever seen,