Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jason Katims

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

Burt Reynolds

All you really have in the end are your stories.

Charles Colson

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

Eduardo Galeano

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me.

Stephen Sondheim

The Tonys ignored West Side Story. The Tonys ignored Gypsy. It's a kind of public humiliation.

Stephen Sondheim

The last collaborator is your audience ... when the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written. Things that seem to work well -- work in a sense of carry the story forward and be integral to the piece -- suddenly become a little less relevant or a little less functional or a little overlong or a little overweight or a little whatever. And so you start reshaping from an audience.

Tim O'Brien

By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others. You start sometimes with an incident that truly happened, and you carry it forward by inventing incidents that did not in fact occur but that nonetheless help to clarify and explain.

Tim O'Brien

Let the story tell itself.

Tim O'Brien

But this too is true: stories can save us.

William Stafford

So, the world happens twice --once what we see it as;second it legends itselfdeep, the way it is.

Tracy McCormick

We had called for a widespread 1 to 2 inches of rain this weekend. This week, we're watching what happens to the remnants of Hurricane Wilma." ()

Joan Didion

This one is really fantastic, ... It's not about grieving. It's about what happens when people die.

Joel C. Rosenberg

What if these events the Bible says will happen, happens in our lifetime?

Donna Karan

Just take a breath and see what happens.

Dodie Smith

...I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.

Desmond Tutu

I can't control what happens to me, but I can control how I respond to it.

Amy Hempel

He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good.

Amanda Seyfried

I happen to be really a romantic.