Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Henry Ford

Every object tells a story if you know how to read it.

Harvey Mackay

The annals of business are filled with stories of companies that thought they had it made and could milk their enterprises without having to bother about improving their products or services. It's amazing how fast they found their markets disappearing.

Louise Erdrich

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

Joan D. Vinge

Myth is, after all, the neverending story.

Joan Didion

We are the stories we tell ourselves

Eric Stoltz

I did a film called 'Fort McCoy,' based on a true story of one of the few internment camps during WWII that was actually in the United States.

Emmanuel Jal

To tell my story, to touch lives.

Emma Thompson

I`ve realized that in all the great stories, even if there`s a happily-ever-after ending, there`s something sad.

John Irving

Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.

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.

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

John Berger

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

John Baird

The prodigy who fades is an old story. But the prodigy who sets a high mark when young and then hits that mark, or exceeds it, over and over again, for a full lifespan, is truly remarkable, and worth celebrating.

Joey Skaggs

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

Joe Lando

I enjoy doing romantic stories. I've done a lot of them.

Joe Jonas

I've gone through a lot of stuff in my life so far. There are stories I haven't really been able to tell.

Jincy Willett

Arithmetic is the death of story.

Frank Darabont

A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.

Jimmy Fallon

I'm so excited. Jay Leno is on the show tonight. He brought some really funny jokes and some great stories. Although I'm a little concerned he also brought his old desk and Kevin Eubanks. I just want Jay to be comfortable, but not too comfortable.

Jimmy Fallon

I didn't act like I was there. I just got into the story.

Madeleine L'Engle

As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.

Madeleine L'Engle

We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are.

Madeleine L'Engle

Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically.

Lynne Truss

Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling.

John Garfield

Must I tell the story of my life again?