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.

C. S. Lewis

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.

Burt Reynolds

All you really have in the end are your stories.

Alan Dean Foster

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

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.

Elizabeth Strout

All these lives," she said. "All the stories we never know." (125)

Denis Johnson

I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

Elie Wiesel

I wanted to come back to Sighet to tell you the story of my death. So that you could prepare yourselves while there was still time. To live? I don't attach any importance to my life any more. I'm alone. No, I wanted to come back, and to warn you. And see how it is, no one will listen to me.

Edgar Allan Poe

You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.

Ruth Rendell

they say you cannot make a noise to annoy yourself ...

Scott Anderson

We couldn't make so much noise of what we were going to do.

James Hetfield

I wanted to make noise, not study theory.

Edwin Way Teale

Noise is evolving not only the endurers of noise but the needers of noise.

Scott Eastwood

You can only do what you can do in this world. If you start thinking of all the white noise out there, I think you'll go crazy.

David Ogilvy

At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock.

Bob Murray

People stop and say 'Why are you painting on a building?'

Robert Henri

There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only appear when you are far away.

Roy Lichtenstein

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

Max Cannon

I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting.

Philip Guston

I'm not interested in painting; I'm not interested in making a picture. Then what the hell am I interested in? I must be interested in this process.

Philip Guston

What is seen and called the picture is what remains - an evidence. Even as one travels in painting toward a state of 'unfreedom' where only certain things can happen, unaccountably the unknown and free must appear.

Ernest Hemingway

There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.

Irving Stone

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]