Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Richardson

In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION.

Salma Hayek

Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories.

Salman Rushdie

No story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old.

Salman Rushdie

Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old--it is the new combinations that make them new.

Salman Rushdie

Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

Salman Rushdie

Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.

Salman Rushdie

What's the use of stories that aren't even true?

Salman Rushdie

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

Vincent Bugliosi

The discrepancy or contradiction is the entire story. And being the entire story, it by itself discredits the entire twenty-six volumes of the Warren Commission. Nothing else has to be shown or even argued.

Ursula K. Le Guin

For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you just reach up and pick it.

Tyra Banks

Every woman has a story.

Twyla Tharp

In the end all collaborations are love stories.

William Graham Sumner

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.

William Golding

I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.

Stephen Chbosky

Not everyone has a sob story, Charlie, and even if they do, it's no excuse.

Stephen Chbosky

The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. they had become stories

Spalding Gray

One of the ways to reincarnate is to tell your story.

Thomas Hardy

If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?

Thomas King

The truth about stories is, that's all we are.

Thomas King

There are no truths. Only stories.

Thomas King

Stories are wondrous things. And they are dangerous.

Thomas King

If we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change our lives

Raymond Queneau

True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love.

Raymond Queneau

The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written.

Victoria Gotti

I do get most of the harder-to-get stories.

S. Robson Walton

I went to Vortex and Vortex is a whole 'nother story.

Sam Keen

To really love a person completely is to come to a point where your stories are intertwined.

Sam Keen

The telling of your stories is a revolutionary act.

Roy H. Williams

A good story often increases the salability of an item without increasing its actual value.

Stockwell Day

For some decades now, it seems, there has been a ukase in place in American journalism to the effect that Canada is entitled to one story per season.

Stewart Udall

I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, 'Henry, have you made your peace with God?' Thoreau said, 'I didn't know we'd quarreled.

Steve Earle

Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.

Stephen Sondheim

The Tonys ignored West Side Story. The Tonys ignored Gypsy. It's a kind of public humiliation.