Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Greene

Jay-Z is more naturally gifted. He didn't depend as much as 50 did on his personal story. Jay-Z has a great story, he came from a pretty rough background. But 50's early success was so much fueled on the story and where he came from. With Jay-Z, I feel he has a more natural gift for language and for music itself. 50 really had to study and work at it much harder.

Vita Sackville-West

When, and how, and at what stage of our development did spirituality and our strange notions of religion arise? the need for worship which is nothing more than our frightened refuge into propitiation of a Creator we do not understand? A detective story, the supreme Who-done-it, written in indecipherable hieroglyphics, no Rosetta stone supplied by the consummate Mystifier to tease us poor fumbling unravellers of his plot.

Sarah Dessen

An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.

Sarah Dessen

But those words were only the middle of the story. There was a beginning here, too.

Sarah Dessen

I wondered which was harder, in the end. The act of telling, or who you told it to. Or maybe if, when you finally got it out, the story was really all that mattered.

Sandra Bullock

Every movie is a love story.

Rohinton Mistry

So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different

Roland Barthes

Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.

Roland Barthes

He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.

Rod Stewart

Every picture tells a story, don't it?

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

I am drawn to Americana, and I am drawn to gothic stories, and I love American gothic stories.

Roberta Williams

A good story never dies.

Robert Plant

I have no story. My story goes from day to day.

Sarah Zettel

First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien life out there? It's also about politics.

Sarah Monette

What makes a story a story is that something changes. Internal, external, small or large, trivial or of earth-shattering importance. Doesn't matter.

Sarah Monette

The fountain of youth is like the monkeys paw in the W. W. Jacobs story. It never ends well.

Sara Sheridan

For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.

Sanjay Dutt

Parineeta is a classic love story.

Sarah Polley

So I decided to make a film about our need to tell stories, to own our stories, to understand them, and to have them heard.

Rob Marshall

Maybe because I come from choreography, I've always felt that there's something about action films that made it very natural for me to go that way. It's story through movement.

Rebecca Miller

Deirdre Maddon has an extraordinary, almost celestial way of telling a story. There are so many great writers now - although I also want to go back and read all of Dickens again.

Tucker Max

TV has a longer narrative, and TV's more like short stories. So there's less rules with TV; you can make it a little bit different. [With] movies, the medium has more constraints, so it was just about what stories are the most cinematic and the best resolution.

Vera Farmiga

I chase after inspiring stories.

Uma Thurman

I wanted to seem completely invisible but whenever you're saying someone else's words and relaying the story of someone else's life, it's not you.

Tori Spelling

My whole life story is kind of a backhanded compliment.

Robert Graves

There is one story and one story only.

Rudyard Kipling

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

Sandra Cisneros

The stories are what no one wants to talk about. So you make up a story because no one is going to tell you the truth.

Ruth Ozeki

Every seed has a story.

Roddy Doyle

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.

Robert Penn Warren

You don’t choose a story, it chooses you.

Will Packer

For me, I look at a project that has a story that's going to resonate in some way. It doesn't have to be about a message. It doesn't have to have some underlying theme of overwhelming importance.

Walter Benjamin

History breaks down into images, not into stories.