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.

Tim O'Brien

Let the story tell itself.

Tim O'Brien

I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.

Steven Shainberg

The problem with most love stories in my opinion is that they're too simplistic.

Steven Spielberg

When I don't have a story to tell, I'm a terror to live with.

Robert Bringhurst

Stories are the reproductive organs of language.

Jane Austen

An annuity is a very serious business.

Eminem

It's not a contest, and I ain't on no conquest for no mate.

Buddy Bell

I don't know how serious it is. Hopefully, it is not the kind that will keep him out two or three weeks. We have to be careful.

Bill Cosby

I didn't know how serious it is to a female that you lift the lid.

Berkeley Breathed

If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.

Lindy Ruff

He's not well. I'd put him in the serious category. He wasn't doing well, even at the end of the game.

John Hodgman

There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want.

Livy

The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.

Anthony Michael Hall

First of all, it was in my contract. I knew I would be directing an episode.

Thomas Jefferson

Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate would be, Does he use ardent spirits?

Sheryl Crow

No one said it would be easy But no one said it'd be this hard

Mason Cooley

Without a little negligence, life would be intolerable.

Fareed Zakaria

If we didn't have the rest of the world growing, the United States economy would be in much worse shape than it is today.

Francesca Annis

I couldn't imagine playing someone young now; it would be so boring

Frances Wright

... it would be impossible for women to stand in higher estimation than they do here. The deference that is paid to them at all times and in all places has often occasioned me as much surprise as pleasure.

George Washington

To anticipate & prevent disasterous contingencies would be the part of wisdom & patriotism.

George Washington

I never have to grope for methods. The method is revealed at the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw aside the curtain I would be helpless.