Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edgar Rice Burroughs

I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.

Bela Lugosi

I'll take any story if it's good.

Arundhati Roy

Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.

Demi Lovato

Every life has a purpose. Share your story and you may help someone find their own.

Daniel Handler

A mystery is solved with a story.

Elizabeth Strout

All these lives," she said. "All the stories we never know." (125)

Eli Wallach

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

Eli Roth

When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.

Bruce Springsteen

I told a story with the E Street Band that was bigger and better than I could have done on my own.

Bruce Springsteen

The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.

Bruce Springsteen

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.

Brian K. Vaughan

I don't start a story until I know where it's going to end.

Brian K. Vaughan

I've never had any interest in retelling stories from my youth.

Brad Meltzer

Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

Jane Campion

When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.

Jane Campion

A message I've been telling myself: the cinema is very conservative, and unless you have a story that satisfies you, that is within the unchallenging zone, but you love it, you can't do it as cinema. Otherwise, you better go do it for television, which is more daring now.

Dee Wallace

A really good horror film has a story.

Dick Cavett

I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples' stories.

Edward Snowden

The question for us is not what new story will come out next. The question is, what are we going to do about it?

Eliza Dushku

No matter how many times you forget it, you can turn around and help someone. Or you can deliver a positive message or share with someone or just listen to someone share their story with you, it's just the best gift there is. And it's free.

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

Alan Rickman

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

Alan Rickman

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

Alan Rickman

I like it when stories are left open.

Alan Moore

This is an IMAGINARY STORY...aren't they all?

Alan Moore

Everybody has their story to tell.

Alan Ball

I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.

Diane Setterfield

Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories.

Diane Setterfield

A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.

Diane Setterfield

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

Dhani Jones

When it all boils down, its about embracing each others stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good.

David A. Siegel

Her [ Onata April] great talent as an actress is that she has the ability to understand and listen to the scenario and what the story is, and then she can pretend and live that.

Darren Shan

He says every story has at least some truth in it, even if most are made up.