Famous Quotes & Sayings

Plato

Those who tell the stories rule society.

Paula Fox

To be human is to be in a story.

Lee Child

British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.

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.

Matt Walsh

We are the protagonists of our love story, not the spectators.

Matt Smith

We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?

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.

Mason Cooley

Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.

Mason Cooley

Call on literary convention, and it will gladly tell your story for you.

Michael Connelly

That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst.

Michael Chabon

Rueful, bittersweet, funny, written with tenderness and bite, Merrill Feitell's stories, like so many classic short stories, are made from the plain and painful stuff of this world, and haunted by the possibility, and the impossibility, of a better one.

Michael Arndt

A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.

Michel Hazanavicius

It's about storytelling. The story is told through images. So with the cast, I had to make sure that the emotions were readable without sound... I know some great actors, if you turn off the sound, you don't really know what they're saying

Margaret J. Wheatley

Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.

Michael Bergdahl

Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards.

Michael Bergin

I was going to get the Carolyn Bessette story out of her one way or another.

Nancy Werlin

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

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.