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.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

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.

Mike Horner

Since the first day we had our meeting, the very first question and observation has been that the maps we have now are not right.

Jeff Vandermeer

The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?

Adrienne Rich

The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.

Brit Marling

Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

Niki Lauda

Taking your first title is much more complicated and more difficult; it takes years of work - from go-kart to Formula One. The second comes more easily, because you've already got the experience.

Bebe Neuwirth

I am a very complicated person.

Candice Swanepoel

Women are complicated. We all know that.

Elizabeth Kostova

Recently abandoned women can be complicated.