Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lord Byron

But stories somehow lengthen when begun.

Gabrielle Zevin

We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works

Joy Williams

The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how to say it.

Junior Seau

No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste time looking back.

Judy Greer

I'm finding now more and more that nudity is so rarely serves the story in any film.

Paul Krugman

Surely I'm not the only person to ask the obvious question: How different, really, is Mr. Madoff's tale from the story of the investment industry as a whole?

Maggie Shayne

I enjoy heroines who grow and come into their own during the course of a story.

Hans Zimmer

You always hear these stories of how Hollywood is so merciless on composers and how they all get beaten up. Nobody beats me up as much as I beat myself up. This is what I love doing and I have one life to do it in, and I better do it right. I better do it well.

Harlan Howard

I take a whole life story and compress it into three minutes.

Gustave Flaubert

I’m dazzled by your facility. In ten days you’ll have written six stories! I don’t understand it… I’m like one of those old aqueducts: there’s so much rubbish cogging up the banks of my thought that it flows slowly, and only spills from the end of my pen drop by drop.

Grantland Rice

It's not whether you won or lost, but how many bad-beat stories you were able to tell.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.

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?

Matthew Quick

The problem with the stigma around mental health is really about the stories that we tell ourselves as a society. What is normal? That's just a story that we tell ourselves.

Matthew Barney

I have a way of making narrative sculpture, where first you make a text and out of that text you make objects. I start with a story and then I make sculpture from that story, it's just that the stories become more and more elaborate.

Kathie Lee Gifford

We heard stories about fakery and decoys at revivals. I never personally saw any trickery.

We've got a lot of different stories about what precipitated this, but we don't know for sure.

Jim Crace

These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.

Jess Walter

All we have is the story we tell.

Jeremy Renner

Accents can be a great tool to tell a story - but if you do it wrong, it pulls you right out of the movie.

Paul Hawken

Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; Right is where the movement is.

Paul Auster

Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.

Pat Conroy

A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.

Pat Conroy

A story untold could be the one that kills you.

Juno Temple

I'm so excited to see 'Horns' because it's so many different genres in one film. It's a sci-fi, it's a love story, it's a horror movie, it's a fairy tale.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The universe is not made up of atoms; it’s made up of tiny stories.

Lisi Harrison

One of the best things you can relate to is a detailed story.

Patrick Ness

It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat.

Patrick Ness

Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.

Patrick Rothfuss

All stories are true.

Patrick Rothfuss

All the truth in the world is held in stories.

Patrick Rothfuss

This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we can talk.