Famous Quotes & Sayings

Denise Monteiro

We don't know why they were fleeing New York.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

David Eagleman

All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.

Jeff Goodell

Without electrons, there is no Google. And without clean electrons, there will be no Google customers, since we'll all be too busy fleeing from rising seas, droughts, and disease.

Sean Penn

My greatest interest in it was certainly not to avoid those things that were going to be controversial about the family but the interest I had in the story was predominantly what he was pursuing and not as much what he was fleeing.

Umberto Eco

You cannot escape one infinite, I told myself, by fleeing to another. You cannot escape the revelation of the identical by taking refuge in the illusion of the multiple.

Karl Kraus

Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it.

David S. Goyer

What I really like to do is write 'genre' stories without a cartoonish element. I did the same with 'Da Vinci's Demons,' and I'll do the same with 'Man of Steel.'

C. S. Lewis

History is a story written by the finger of God.

Cecelia Ahern

They say a story loses something with each telling.

Cecelia Ahern

Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.

Bill Bryson

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

Patricia Polacco

My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.

William Shakespeare

A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story

Baz Luhrmann

All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

Kim Edwards

William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written.

Charles Barkley

Just because you say something doesn't make it controversial, and it doesn't make you a bad person.

Donna Brazile

I know Reverend Jesse Jackson is controversial, and not a popular figure with many, but he hired me in 1984. He gave me my first job in politics.

Chris Evert

I still have this image: I can't be controversial, I can't say things.

Michael Moore

I get called 'controversial' all the time.

Shimon Peres

It's better to be controversial for the right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons.

Mike Jackson

A lot of networks don't want to touch controversial subjects, and especially stuff that deals with race and history.