Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Strathairn

Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.

Byron Katie

The last story: God is everything, God is good.

Byron Katie

We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.

Byron Katie

There is no story that is you or that leads to you. Every story leads away from you.

Byron Katie

You are what exists before all stories.

Byron Katie

Who would you be without your story?

Byron Katie

The Work always leaves you with less of a story. Who would you be without your story? You never know until you inquire. There is no story that is you or that leads to you. Every story leads away from you. Turn it around; undo it. You are what exists before all stories. You are what remains when the story is understood.

Byron Katie

No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.

Byron Katie

You are the effect of your story, that's all.

Caroline B. Cooney

What more can life hold, than to know that because of your story, somebody out there has decided to read again!

Chris Cleave

Our stories are the tellers of us.

Chris Cleave

We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

Chris Colfer

A villain is just a victim whose story hasn’t been told.

Chinua Achebe

Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

Chinua Achebe

In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.

Chinua Achebe

There is no story that is not true.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Stories matter. Many stories matter.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told — are really dependent on power.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.

Mark Cuban

Linking without permission is stealing. Period, end of story.

Beth Orton

I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to justify his painting.

Bernard Malamud

First drafts are for learning what your story is about.

Bob Kane

How can an article about me or the Batman be the true story when I am not consulted or interviewed?

Charlie Rowe

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

Ai Weiwei

Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.

Bill Nighy

I'm not famous for my back story investigations; I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.

Carolyn Porco

The quest for the truth, in and of itself, Is a story that's filled with insights.

Carl Barks

I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.

C. S. Lewis

But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman.

Catherynne M. Valente

…everything has a narrative, really, and if you can’t understand a story and relate to it, figure out how you fit inside it, you’re not really alive at all.

Catherynne M. Valente

Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.

Casey Stoner

Everyone seems quite good at stories and making them up.