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.

Donald Miller

the times we worked harder to make the day stand out. our story demanded that we change and so we did.

David Wroblewski

It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost—not an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions. All of which is to say: stories, too, are wild things.

David Spade

When I'm interviewed on Leno, just be funny, period. That's all they want from me. I don't want to tell my life story.

Simon Mainwaring

How well you tell your story determines how well your customers tell your story.

Steve Earle

Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.

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.

Horace

Joking apart, now let us be serious.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Preserving the serious health condition is usually painful.

J. M. Coetzee

Was it serious? I don't know. It certainly had serious consequences.

Melissa Sue Anderson

I don't want what Shaun Cassidy gets. I am a serious actress.

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.

Melanie Lynskey

If I could be working every day, I would be.

Gaston Bachelard

All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.

Gary Vaynerchuk

Bordeaux would be naive not to recognize that Robert Parker was driving the brand equity. If the next generation doesn't care about Chateau Pichon-Lalande, then you have a problem.

Jason Mraz

Musicians are so well covered in the press, it would be great to see more outspoken practitioners of green life.

Hillary Clinton

Reconciling with an adversary that can be as brutal as the Taliban sounds distasteful, even unimaginable. And diplomacy would be easy if we only had to talk to our friends. But that is not how one makes peace.