Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Springsteen

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

Alan Rickman

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

Lynn Cohen

Not all stories translate well when read out loud.

Adam Katz

This story is one of the more overblown stories I have ever seen,

Marc Morial

There are, as is the case, conflicting stories about what may have happened,

Patricia Polacco

My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.

Ursula K. Le Guin

To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.

David Jeremiah

It's time to begin righting the story of your life.

David Eddings

It's only a story, isn't it?"... "Who's to say what's only a story and what's truth disguised as a story?

Arthur Conan Doyle

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

If you get invited to your first orgy, don't just show up nude. That's a common mistake. You have to let nudity "happen.

Arlo Guthrie

People were talking about songs of the common man in order to make the common man. With Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly, they were so common it was just uncommon.

Ron Eglash

While fractal geometry is often used in high-tech science, its patterns are surprisingly common in traditional African designs.

Patrick Carman

Getting to the point where I was ready to write a book has been about a 20-year journey of being, really honestly, too afraid to try - which I think is pretty common for people who are trying to write a large piece of fiction.

Paul Langhu

We have temporarily withdrawn the blockade due to the hardships faced by the common people in the area.

Douglas Southall Freeman

Character is the starting point from which we go on. When I say a man has character, I mean that when you go to that man and say, 'What are the facts in this case?' he will tell you the truth, justly, truly, and wisely as he knows, with the minimum of exhibitionism and the maximum of devotion to the common cause.

Peter Baynham

It's a fairly common phenomenon of London life - people having fully developed critiques of books they haven't read and films they haven't seen. I'd probably include myself in that.