Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Spade

When I'm interviewed on Leno, just be funny, period. That's all they want from me. I don't want to tell my life story.

David Lynch

To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words.

David Halberstam

If youre a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.

David Caruso

Any story you've heard of my behavior is probably true.

Dan Brown

The greatest story ever told is, in fact, the greatest story ever sold

Daniel Woodrell

It's not always to the benefit of the story to have it so preordained.

Daniel Woodrell

I always loved the verve and vivacity of pulp and I kind of merged it with my own interest in family stories.

Alice McDermott

We are surrounded by story.

Alice Munro

The story fails but your faith in the importance of doing the story doesn't fail.

Alice Hoffman

Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them.

Alice Hoffman

They weren't true stories; they were better than that.

Anne McCaffrey

But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end

Anne Lamott

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.

Alber Elbaz

A fragrance is a veritable story, told and explained in scent, in notes, in impressions. It's a score based on the emotions of each instant, a captivating music of the senses.

Albert Camus

Don't let them tell us stories

Anna Quindlen

I hadn't written a love story before and I hadn't written a novel with a happy ending before.

Angelique Kidjo

I'm a story teller. I really know how to tell stories of Africa.

Angelique Kidjo

I am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.

Amy Schumer

The truth is, whoever I've dated, if I've ever wanted to talk about them on stage, I've asked them first. And I've gotten their permission to tell a story or talk about them before I do it.

Amy Sedaris

My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea market.

Anthony Bourdain

I like telling stories, and I tell stories that interest me. It would be boring to have to go to nothing but the best restaurants. That would be a misery to me.

Andy Stanley

Money comes, money goes. But your story stays with you the rest of your life.

Andrew Scott

If one story becomes too hot, then you can't forget it. As an actor, you want to remain fluid.

Ann Patchett

You are always someones favorite unfolding story

Angela Bettis

Im not really devoted or specified towards any specific genre at all. I really like it all. Theres good storytelling in all the genres, you know. I just want to tell good stories and do good work.

Ang Lee

I just did a dramatic love story. Whether it's a cultural phenomenon is not for me to say.

Anne Fortier

Everything we say is a story. But nothing we say is just a story.

Those are the stories journalists have to do.

Richard Bach

True enjoy stories never ever have endings.

Richard Bach

That’s why love stories don’t have endings! They don’t have endings because love doesn’t end.

Richard Dreyfuss

By telling my own story, I hope to help remove the stigma. It never should be something to hide.

Robert McKee

Stories are the currency of human relationships.