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.

Art Buchwald

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

Busy Philipps

Nobody wants to see a bejeweled pregnant lady from top to bottom.

Alain de Botton

What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.

Miley Cyrus

I'm just about equality, period. It's not like, I'm a woman, women should be in charge! I just want there to be equality for everybody.

Desmond Dekker

You can get it if you really want

Richard G. Scott

If you want to talk to God, pray. If you want him to talk to you, read your scriptures.

Bret Easton Ellis

but I don't want to wear a condom because I don't feel anything," and she says calmly... glaring at me,"If you don't use one you're not going to feel anything anyway.

Chris Evans

I weep at everything. I love things so much - I just never want to dilute that.

Diane Kruger

You can learn any accent you want. It's a fascinating thing.

Dan Hendricks

The state veterinarian made a note of it and put him on the injured list. It was just a mild little thing and not a problem at all. It won't cost him any time.

Rick Ford

When it was tied, we didn't do what you have to do to win a game like this. We were impatient and we forced the issue and it cost us the game.

Mike Chung

You may be saving $30 to $40 a month (the cost of one tank of gas for a typical driver. But is it worth a $4,000 or $5,000 premium?

James Leal

The results are fine. The issue is they are not telling us anything we don't already know ... we had a share buyback from Royal Bank, we had a cost efficiency program from Lloyds, but nothing new from HBOS.

Wayne Morris

There's no direct cost for that transaction but it's mainly for paper and the cost of keeping the system as a whole running.

John Woods

There's no consequence to them because Nova Scotia Power has been coddling these electric-heat customers and not forcing them to pay the cost they have been incurring,

Rock Cartwright

There's no excuse, ... I shouldn't have fumbled the ball, and it cost us seven points. It was a huge play. It was crucial.

Todd Purvis

There's nothing serious that will cost a long period of time. He's just resting comfortably at home.

Phil Jamieson

Whatever we do in food and whatever we do from a pricing perspective, the cost has to be competitive, without question.