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.

C. S. Lewis

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.

Burt Reynolds

All you really have in the end are your stories.

Alan Dean Foster

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

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.

Elizabeth Strout

All these lives," she said. "All the stories we never know." (125)

Denis Johnson

I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

Elie Wiesel

I wanted to come back to Sighet to tell you the story of my death. So that you could prepare yourselves while there was still time. To live? I don't attach any importance to my life any more. I'm alone. No, I wanted to come back, and to warn you. And see how it is, no one will listen to me.

Edgar Allan Poe

You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.

Albert Einstein

Even if you have to go through hell - go without hesitation.

John Wayne

I have tried to live my life so that my family would love me and my friends respect me. The others can do whatever the hell they please.

Henny Youngman

If a joke is too hard to visualize, I tell the young comics, then what the hell good is it?

Gerard Way

I'd rather goto Hell than be in Purgatory

Roald Dahl

The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.

Robert Johnson

Blues fallin' down like hail And the day keeps on worryin' me There's a hell hound on my trail.

Rob Longo

I hope people come to watch, but I'd be racing if there were nobody here. I just get out there and run the hell out of it.

Sam Fields

These people have no idea what to do without lawyers telling them what to do. They don't know what the hell they're doing. They're not lawyers.

Pete Townshend

Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.

Jewel

Cynicism is for lightweights.

Jeremy Paxman

The cure for cynicism is simply to engage honestly.

J. R. R. Tolkien

The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism.

Sandra Bernhard

Anything that has cynicism to it and that's jaded is smutty.

Bob Newhart

I don't want to sound like the old guy, but cynicism is a potential danger. It colors our way of looking at the world.

Newt Gingrich

There is a very big difference in where the two parties will take America, ... I sometimes get distressed by our friends in the media because they try to reduce everything to gossip, scandal-mongering and cynicism that I think is profoundly false for this country's future. There is an enormous difference in the two parties. We would go two very different places.