Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richelle Mead

But I didn't know about the other story." "What other story?” "About how you and Adrian Ivashkov are—" "No, whatever you heard it’s not true." "But it was really romantic" "Then it’s definitely not true.

Rex Stout

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

Vincente Minnelli

It's the story that counts.

Salman Rushdie

Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

Salman Rushdie

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

Roddy Doyle

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.

Robert Penn Warren

You don’t choose a story, it chooses you.

Wally Lamb

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

Walt Disney

You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems.

Vinessa Shaw

The compassionate actions of a Buddha are essential to reforming and revitalizing society.

Vincent Van Gogh

Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.

Winston Churchill

Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.

Neale Donald Walsch

We crave, we deeply yearn for, release from the limitations of a dogma that declares separation, disunity, and judgment to be the essential condition of life.

Eli Roth

Everybody has to know where they're coming from, what they're doing, why they're doing it, who they are. These are essentials.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am not so foolish as to declaim against forms. Forms are as essential as bodies; but to exalt particular forms, to adhere to oneform a moment after it is outgrown, is unreasonable, and it is alien to the spirit of Christ.

Juliet Stevenson

I'd rather be useful than rich. It's more essential to feel you're doing something that's worth doing, rather than making a lot of money.

Paul Klee

Make chance essential.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Nothing is so essential as dignity…Time will reveal who has it and who has it not.

Russell Baker

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

Will Rogers

I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.

Henry David Thoreau

The press is, almost without exception, corrupt.

Benito Mussolini

Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.

Maureen Dowd

I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen.

Nora Ephron

Working as a journalist is exactly like being a wallflower at an orgy.

Mason Cooley

Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.

Alexis Ohanian

Nothing will replace good journalism.

Jim Hightower

When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.