Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

William Landay

Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.

William Landay

There is no absolute beginning to any story, after all. There is only the moment you begin watching.

William Joyce

Everyone's story matters.

William Joyce

If you really want to tell stories, do it and don't be dissuaded.

Walter Dean Myers

Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience. I'll call it what the lady who is the prosecutor called me. MONSTER.

Walter Dean Myers

Everything in life is made up...You make up that you are happy. You make up that you are sad. You make up that you are in love. If you don't make up your own life, who's going to make it up for you? It's bad enough when you die and everybody can make up their own stories about you. —Mr. Hooft

Walter Isaacson

Good telling of human stories is the best way to keep the Internet and World Wide Web from becoming a waste vastland.

Virginia Woolf

Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.

Vincente Minnelli

I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.

Vincente Minnelli

No, I only like whether I like the story or not, essentially see something in it that isn't completely there.

Vincente Minnelli

It's the story that counts.

Vincente Minnelli

I always liked the Van Gogh story because I was terribly involved in that.

Woody Guthrie

If you walk across my camera I will flash the world your story.

Yahoo Serious

Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?

Yahoo Serious

The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.

William Throsby Bridges

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

Zadie Smith

The end is simply the beginning of an even longer story.

Zhang Yimou

The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes.