Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Jack O'Connell

It's an old story, really: seduced and corrupted, in the end, by an obsessive love for the text.

Ishmael Beah

My teeth became sour as I listened to his story. It was then that I understood why he was quiet all the time.

Isak Dinesen

It is not a bad thing in a tale that you understand only half of it.

Isak Dinesen

To be a person is to have a story to tell.

Imtiaz Ali

Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with Highway, there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended Highway to be the first film that I ever made. Didnt happen.

Hunter Parrish

I like telling stories.

Hunter Hayes

Anyone who tells you they're not nervous playing on the CMAs stage, I'm afraid they're not telling you the whole story.

Hunter Hayes

Albums are chapters. They're part of a story.

Gloria Swanson

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.

Gloria Steinem

Go out and find your own stories.That is what I want to tell you.

Geraldo Rivera

The biggest stories in 2005 were the national disasters

Harry S Truman

Any story worth telling is worth exaggerating.

J. Michael Straczynski

Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.

Keira Knightley

All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to be able to be in them as much as I am, to see them from the first stitch in a costume to the end product.

Karen Thompson Walker

Sometimes the saddest stories take the fewest words.

Karen Thompson Walker

My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that imagined reader, which is a crucial part of learning to tell stories.

Julian Barnes

In life, every ending is just the start of another story.

Keith Richards

Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.

Ken Follett

I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next.

Ken Follett

Most of my stories have some basis in fact.

Keanu Reeves

Hallelujah! Amen! Christianity is so inherent in western story-telling, you can't really get around it. But it wasn't something that drew me to it more or less.

But that is another story and shall be told another time.

Michael Azerrad

I just wanted to tell the story of a bunch of musicians who had never had their story told before. There's no preaching or theorizing.

Ray Bradbury

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

Ray Bradbury

You let the story cool off and then, instead of rewriting it, you relive it.

Ray Bradbury

Comic strips introduced me to metaphors. They are pure metaphor, so you learn how to tell a story with symbols, which is a very valuable thing to learn. And I learned that from motion pictures, too, and from poetry. Poetry is mainly metaphor. If it doesn't have a metaphor, it doesn't work.

Ray Bradbury

There are a lot of wonderful women writers who would be good influences on writers. You've got to spread yourself out and educate yourself with all kinds of stories.

Shane Carruth

My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story.

Sean Bean

Everyone was very deeply involved in the world of 'The Lord of the Rings'. From the wardrobe department to lighting, all were fascinated with the story. This is something that does not happen usually.