Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richelle Mead

But I didn't know about the other story." "What other story?” "About how you and Adrian Ivashkov are—" "No, whatever you heard it’s not true." "But it was really romantic" "Then it’s definitely not true.

Rex Stout

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

Vincente Minnelli

It's the story that counts.

Salman Rushdie

Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

Salman Rushdie

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

Roddy Doyle

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.

Robert Penn Warren

You don’t choose a story, it chooses you.

Wally Lamb

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

Walt Disney

You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems.

Robert Orben

These detective series on TV always end at precisely the right moment-after the criminal is arrested and before the court turns him loose.

Giles Foden

Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.

A. S. Byatt

Literary critics make natural detectives.

Agatha Christie

Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.

Cornelia Funke

They wouldn't tell Scipio how much of the counterfeit cash was left since, as Riccio put it, 'You're a detective now, after all.

Rocco Buttiglione

We desecrated the traditional values, but new values didn't come along.

Edith Wharton

traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

Steven Strogatz

When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.

Tom Chapin

Mine is not a traditional music, but it comes from a tradition.

Robbie Williams

I come from the tradition of a big Irish family that loves to sing. I love to perform.

Ted Rall

There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.

John Searle

You do not understand your own tradition if you do not see it in relation to others.

Philip Johnson

I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life.

George Saunders

All traditions are also full of meanness for the sake of meanness.