Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam Gopnik

The sin of capitalism, perhaps, is to make wants feel like needs, to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical necessity: I must have it. The grace of capitalism is to make wants feel like hopes, so that material objects and stuff can feel like the possibility of something heroic and civic.

Cleo Moore

I mean, Jane Wyman did a lot of silly parts for years and then all of a sudden went serious and was tremendous.

Dan Quayle

It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

Dan Quayle

Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.

Richard M. Nixon

When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.

Alan King

Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it's hard to turn away. Then, of course, you're hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.

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.

Kate Seredy

[My stories were] an excuse for making pictures.

Lili Taylor

As a woman, a lot of stories haven't been told and we've got a lot of catching up to do.

Leo Tolstoy

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Leo Tolstoy

The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.

Peter Kreeft

Things look different when history is seen as His-story.