Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anton Chekhov

If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache.... If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed only you and not the nation.

Thomas Hobbes

The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .

Marya Hornbacher

The fact that you were essentially dead does not register until you begin to come alive.

Mikhail Bulgakov

and a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world.

Mitt Romney

We're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers.

Paul Watson

If you don't know an answer, a fact, a statistic - make it up on the spot.

Lloyd Alexander

If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?

Madeleine L'Engle

And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.

John B. S. Haldane

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

Lloyd Waner

When I played, a pitcher could throw at you any time he wanted to. In fact, he could tell you he was going to throw at you, and there was nothing said. You had to take it. If he hit ya, he hit ya.

Bruce Springsteen

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

Emmanuel Jal

To tell my story, to touch lives.

Emma Thompson

I`ve realized that in all the great stories, even if there`s a happily-ever-after ending, there`s something sad.

Lord Byron

But stories somehow lengthen when begun.

Ted Naifeh

I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings. Otherwise, they aren't really stories. Just pages.

Alan Rickman

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

David S. Goyer

What I really like to do is write 'genre' stories without a cartoonish element. I did the same with 'Da Vinci's Demons,' and I'll do the same with 'Man of Steel.'

Charles Soule

There are fantastic stories yet to be told featuring Marvel's characters, old and new, and I'm thrilled to be part of them.

Laurie Holden

I'm not interested in playing the victim. I like stories about survivors.