Famous Quotes & Sayings

Deepak Chopra

Become the director, producer, choreographer of your own story

Deepak Chopra

Separate the story - your story - from facts.

Anthony Minghella

I want to tell stories which require something of an audience, by way of thought, argument, emotion, because I'm more often in an audience than I am a maker of films, and that's the kind of movie I want to see.

Anna Quindlen

I hadn't written a love story before and I hadn't written a novel with a happy ending before.

Angelique Kidjo

I'm a story teller. I really know how to tell stories of Africa.

Angelique Kidjo

I am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.

Amy Schumer

The truth is, whoever I've dated, if I've ever wanted to talk about them on stage, I've asked them first. And I've gotten their permission to tell a story or talk about them before I do it.

Amy Sedaris

My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea market.

Anthony Bourdain

I like telling stories, and I tell stories that interest me. It would be boring to have to go to nothing but the best restaurants. That would be a misery to me.

Andy Stanley

Money comes, money goes. But your story stays with you the rest of your life.

There are stories that you don't have to be first on.

Candace Bushnell

I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories that I would do were precursors to 'Sex and the City.'

Joe Meno

What makes my work my own is where I'm writing from. And I feel like I have a million stories to write about Chicago.

Rob Lowe

I always like stories where the egg ends up on my face.

Stephen Jay Gould

So much of science proceeds by telling stories.

Joyce Maynard

Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.

Ursula K. Le Guin

To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.

Stephen Jay Gould

The history of life is more adequately represented by a picture of 'punctuated equilibria' than by the notion of phyletic gradualism. The history of evolution is not one of stately unfolding, but a story of homeostatic equilibria, disturbed only 'rarely' (i.e. rather often in the fullness of time) by rapid and episodic events of speciation.

Stephen Jay Gould

... each with its own beauty, and each with a story to tell.

Stephen Jay Gould

Something deep within us drives accurate messiness into the neat channels of canonical stories.

Baz Luhrmann

In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.

C. S. Lewis

The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.

C. S. Lewis

History is a story written by the finger of God.

Cecelia Ahern

They say a story loses something with each telling.

Cecelia Ahern

Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.

Bill Bryson

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

Malcolm Gladwell

My mother read me biblical stories at night.

Charlie Rowe

Everyone is introduced to the Peter Pan story when they're very young. This story is part of everyone's life.

Heather Graham

There's not a lot of stories for women told by women in a very real, true voice.

Patricia Polacco

My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.

William Shakespeare

A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story

Baz Luhrmann

All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.