Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jocelyn Moorhouse

I am interested in stories that concern women.

Richard Paul Evans

I've yet to read a love story that compares with mine.

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.

Umberto Eco

But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.

Reza Aslan

No- one is ever told any story but their own.

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

What's the use of stories that aren't even true?

Will Durant

History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.

Henry George

God showers upon us his gifts-more than enough for all; But like swine scrambling for food, we tread them in the mire, and rend each other.

Henry Cantwell Wallace

To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature.

John Adams

Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous.

Ellen Glasgow

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

Mark Twain

Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.

Denis Diderot

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

Edward Abbey

Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.

Edward Abbey

You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings.

Julie Gonzalo

I admire a lot of Spanish filmmakers and actors. I grew up watching a lot of Spanish films and novellas, and there's just so much talent out there.

Todd Phillips

I think any filmmaker looks back and thinks, 'Boy, if we only had four hours more on that day when the sun was going down,' or, 'If we only spent more time and went back.'

Evan Osnos

If you go back all the way to the 1920s, filmmakers in Hollywood changed the identity of villains from German to Russian.

Terrell Falk

When filmmakers make a movie, they make a movie for the large screen.

Andy Wachowski

Part of being a filmmaker is also being a craftsman.

Ridley Scott

Audiences are smarter than ever; they know if filmmakers cheat an environment.

Anil Kapoor

I have lot of respect of filmmakers who work in Telugu and Tamil.

Curtis Hanson

I was a journalist and wrote about filmmakers, but I didn't review movies per se.

Rupert Sanders

I'm influenced by a lot of filmmakers; I like English filmmakers because I feel a kin to them.