Famous Quotes & Sayings

Delta Goodrem

I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them.

Denis Johnson

Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it.

Bobby Farrelly

Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging.

Adam Faith

I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where Id give tips on shares. I worked there for two and a half years. Nothing compares to the burst of energy felt on a newsroom floor when a big story breaks.

Adam Duritz

I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.

Adam Duritz

You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.

Adam Duritz

You aren't really writing about what you did; you're writing about how you feel.

Abraham Pais

Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?

Abraham Verghese

In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.

Kris Wartelle

I think his goal is to see if there's any way to help people who lost everything.

Henry David Thoreau

That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline.

Jillian Michaels

Whenever you're making an important decision, first ask if it gets you closer to your goals or farther away.

Jessica Lange

I want to live my life with no goals anymore, but just completely free, like I did when I was younger.

Jerry Ferrara

As an actor, you get to live out many professions. I just want to continue to evolve. My one goal in this business is just longevity and respect, and that's something I'll always have to work toward.

Jeff Vandermeer

Imbuing fiction with a life that extends beyond the last word is in some ways the goal: the ending that goes beyond the ending in the reader's mind, so invested are they in the story.

Jhene Aiko

I just want to meet as many people as I can and talk with as many people as I can, but whatever allows me to do that then that's my main goal. It's just to understand as much as I can about life and how it happens.

Jennie Finch

My goal is to never lose. That may not be realistic, but I'm going to try.

Guillermo del Toro

You need to adjust your compass to an obtainable goal.

Marion Cotillard

Every Story is different, Every Movie is different, Every Director is different.

Bruce Springsteen

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

Leonard Maltin

Documentarian Laura Poitras has crafted a first-rate Hitchcockian-type thriller telling the story of Edward Snowden.

Neil LaBute

I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching.

Neil LaBute

Everyone has a story.

Shekhar Kapur

I tell a story, and therefore I exist.

Taylor Swift

'Love Story' I wrote on my bedroom floor in about 20 minutes.

Kate Seredy

[My stories were] an excuse for making pictures.

Linda Ronstadt

If you don't have story to tell the public at large - you have to be able to sort of go listen.