Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lance Armstrong

If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have refused.

John Updike

It is not enough for a story to flow. It has to kind of trickle and glint as it crosses over the stones of the bare facts.

John Shelby Spong

[Charles] Darwin, for example, is the one who made us face the fact that the primary way we tell the Christ story doesn't work anymore.

John Rhys-Davies

The script of 'Shogun' was so tight that you could not take a word out of a sentence, you could not take a sentence out of a scene, and you certainly couldn't take out a scene without putting ripples right through the back or the front of the overall story.

Libba Bray

There is no greater power on this earth than story.

Leslie Marmon Silko

You don't have anything if you don't have the stories.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn.

Jon Ronson

Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound.

Jon Heder

I want to get up there and tell entertaining stories but that are also to a certain extent clean.

Lynn Shelton

Although humor is present in every one of my films, it has always been used as a way to make the darker, heavier stuff in my stories more palatable. I never set out to make 'Humpday' a comedy.

Louis Malle

When you are working on a script, the story itself is not difficult. You say this would happen and then this, resulting perhaps in this. And the dialogue you make as true as you can.

Nicolas Roeg

I've always admired the tradition of storytellers who sat in the public market and told their stories to gathered crowds. They'd start with a single premise and talk for hours - the notion of one story, ever-changing but never-ending.

Nicholson Baker

Some after-the-fact storytelling is inevitable, and, in fact, very good and useful. But then we want always to be able to enrich the stories, or maybe change the stories with a fresh infusion of specificity.

Nigel Evans

There were so many stories around, it was almost inevitable some of them would turn out to be true.

Nigel Kneale

I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.

Morris Chestnut

I want to tell stories for everyone, primarily.

Morris Chestnut

Producing is easier, I can just be at the set overseeing the story.

Monica Lewinsky

You can insist on a different end to the story.

Miranda July

It occurred to me that everyone’s story matters to themselves, so the more I listened, the more she wanted to talk.

Jack Lynch

These are important stories to tell and should be told elsewhere, but not at America's memorial.

Eric Kripke

I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends.

Eric Kripke

Every so often, you want to map out your plot mythology but never so specifically that you can't let a story surprise you. You want to allow the type of action of the writer's room so that you have the ability to take a left turn.

Marlon Brando

I suppose the story of my life is a search for love, but more than that, I have been looking for a way to repair myself from the damages I suffered early on and to define my obligation, if I had any, to myself and my species.

Mariska Hargitay

By coming forward and sharing your story, you don't know the countless lives you change.

Marjane Satrapi

I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your life, it becomes fictional. Of course, the truth is never far. But the story is created out of it.

Mavis Gallant

A short story is what you see when you look out of the window.

Max Irons

Once you become the story off-screen, you are less likely to be the onscreen one.

Maurice Blanchot

A story? No. No stories, never again.

Maya Angelou

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person you've ever heard of.

Maya Angelou

I wouldn't trade anything for my story now.

Maurice Sendak

You can start making up any kind of story if you want to.

John P. Kotter

We learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us.

John Berger

Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.