Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tad Williams

So we face our final hours...and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the end of all our stories.

Tad Williams

She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best.

Samantha Shannon

Nothing’s worse than a story without an end.

Tom Robbins

There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven.

Tom Folsom

I always wanted to do a Hollywood story. The thing about actors, though, is that they go through a streak of roles. The question is, what's in between?

Todd Haynes

In male-driven [films], the protagonist is not the person who's necessarily in harms way. There's a sense that they're going to figure out how to persevere and take on the obstacles and foes and you don't necessarily know if that's going to happen with the subjects of love stories.

Steve Wozniak

Atari is a very sad story.

Steve Erickson

The material dictates the approach. I tell the stories in the way that feels natural to tell them. Certainly the last thing I want is to be "difficult."

Thomas Carlyle

Caution is the lower story of prudence.

Tony Hsieh

A great brand is a story that never stops unfolding.

Tom Savini

My favorite movies are love stories.

Steven Spielberg

[The way Stanley Kubrick] tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories.

Steven Spielberg

My movies more often are told through pictures, not words. But in this case, the pictures took second position to the incredible words of Abraham Lincoln and his presence [...] I was less interested in an outpouring of imagery than in letting the most human moment of this story evolve before us.

Steven Heighton

It's no sin to tell a good story.

Stanley Crouch

All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.

Simon Cowell

There's no need for me to get married. I live with someone; we're happy; end of story.

Shirley Jackson

I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story's readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives.

Shepard Smith

I like stories that affect families.

Shami Chakrabarti

We need to celebrate stories by women, for women, as just one more way to redress gender injustice.

Sergio Aragones

Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out.

Scott Westerfeld

Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them.

Steven Moffat

We're all stories, in the end.

Steven Moffat

I'll be a story in your head. But that's OK. We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Because it was, you know; it was the best.

Steven Morrissey

And if you have five seconds to spare, I'll tell you the story of my life".

Steven Bochco

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

Steven Cojocaru

On the red carpet, I saw all these great stories, and I also got to see the plastic surgery up close.

Richard Hell

An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.

Raymond Carver

I've done as many as 20 or 30 drafts of a story. Never less than 10 or 12 drafts.

Joss Whedon

I tend to tell stories that have a lot of momentum; it's not like 'and then months later...' I like things where the momentum of one action rolls into the next one so everything is the sum of that.

Kevin J. Anderson

I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback.

Kent Beck

The system metaphor is a story that everyone--customers, programmers, and managers--can tell about how the system works.

Kenneth Burke

Stories are equipment for living.

Ralph Fiennes

In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.