Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Welch

I am a story teller and I take each story very seriously.

Michael Pollan

We are what we eat, it is often said, but of course that's only part of the story. We are what what we eat eats too.

Sidney Poitier

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

Sherilyn Fenn

Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project.

Sherilyn Fenn

I've always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell

Scott Eastwood

I'm a fan of horror movies that have really good stories.

Seth Godin

Your positions on EVERYTHING are based on the story you tell yourself and not some universal fact from the universal fact database.

Todd Solondz

So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.

Tobias Lindholm

It seems like as soon as you have written something, it dictates a story. So I need to be careful.

Siri Hustvedt

Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.

Sofia Coppola

I wanted to make a love story without being nerdy.

Sofia Coppola

I'm always a sucker for a love story.

Michael Scott

Research is always the best part. As we dug deeper into the history and mythology behind each of the hallows, we discovered more and more stories - some of them deserving of novels in themselves.

Michael Scott

All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability.

John P. Kotter

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

Neil Gaiman

There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.

Neil Gaiman

The great thing about Batman and Superman, in truth, is that they are literally transcendent. They are better than most of the stories they are in.

Neil Gaiman

Start telling the stories that only you can tell.

Neil Gaiman

Bod was thrilled. He imagined a future in which he could read everything, in which all stories could be opened and discovered.

Neil Gaiman

Stories are webs, interconnected strand to strand, and you follow each story to the center, because the center is the end. Each person is a strand of the story.

Neil Gaiman

Stories are the things that allow us to persuade each other that we're human.

Neil Gaiman

We owe it to each other to tell stories.

Neil Gaiman

Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.

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.

Matthew Quick

The problem with the stigma around mental health is really about the stories that we tell ourselves as a society. What is normal? That's just a story that we tell ourselves.

Matthew Barney

I have a way of making narrative sculpture, where first you make a text and out of that text you make objects. I start with a story and then I make sculpture from that story, it's just that the stories become more and more elaborate.