Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eduardo Galeano

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me.

Atul Gawande

In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.

Elizabeth Edwards

A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.

Elizabeth Bowen

Story involves action. Action towards an end not to be foreseen (by the reader) but also towards an end which, having been reached, must be seen to have been from the start inevitable.

Deepak Chopra

Change your story, change your life. Basically, that's what it is.

Andy Weir

Don't tell your stories to anyone. You'll be more motivated knowing it's a prerequisite to having an audience.

Joyce Maynard

Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.

Jason Alexander

Every poker player, like every fisherman, needs to have a story in a box, and most poker stories are completely uninteresting.

Tess Gerritsen

Aside from the Rizzoli & Isles books, there are many other stories I want to write. The question is whether I'll live long enough to write them all!

Mark Sheppard

With sci-fi you get these kind of stories in historical drama, and it's just so fabulous.

Stephen Jay Gould

The history of life is more adequately represented by a picture of 'punctuated equilibria' than by the notion of phyletic gradualism. The history of evolution is not one of stately unfolding, but a story of homeostatic equilibria, disturbed only 'rarely' (i.e. rather often in the fullness of time) by rapid and episodic events of speciation.

Stephen Jay Gould

... each with its own beauty, and each with a story to tell.

Stephen Jay Gould

Something deep within us drives accurate messiness into the neat channels of canonical stories.

We've got a lot of different stories about what precipitated this, but we don't know for sure.

Michelle Paver

All stories come from the subconscious - which is why it doesn't make sense to over-plan.

There's no end to these stories being out there, because they sell,

Doris Kearns Goodwin

As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.

Doris Lessing

A story is how we construct our experiences.

Donald Kagan

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.

Craig Thompson

You're more than a story.

Daniel Quinn

No story is devoid of meaning ... If you know how to look for it.

Daniel Quinn

We are all captives of a story.

Dan Glickman

The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting something down on paper.

Dan Jenkins

In a story, you have to have a theme and an angle, you have to have a beginning, middle and an end. You have to have a defining moment and kick it to death. You gotta be able to recognize that, by the way. It probably takes experience.

Clint Eastwood

When I see a story, I ask: is this something I'd like to be in? Is this something I'd like to see? And if I'd like to see it, would I like to tell it?

Clint Eastwood

Every story has its demands.

Adam Braun

Your life should be a story you are excited to tell.

Adam Braun

Make your life a story worth telling,

Anish Kapoor

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis

Aleksandar Hemon

There's a social and human necessity for some kind of continuity, but it's not axiomatic and not something you're born into; it's something you have to work at. And one of the ways to work at it - perhaps the best - is storytelling: telling stories about yourself to others, telling stories about yourself to yourself, telling stories about others to others.

E. L. James

I came up with a story and I wrote it.

E. M. Forster

If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious.

Douglas Rushkoff

New content online no longer requires new stories or information, just new ways of linking things to other things. Or as the social networks might put it to you, 'Jane is now friends with Tom.' The connection has been made; the picture is getting more complete.