Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harriet Lerner

Telling a true story about personal experience is not just a matter of being oneself, or even or finding oneself. It is also a matter of choosing oneself.

Homaro Cantu

I love a great conspiracy story. Who doesnt?

Ian Mckellen

Actors are merely the medium through which a story happens.

Ian Somerhalder

Every love story needs a catalyst of some sort.

Howie Mandel

Now I have new stories and I feel refreshed. There is talk of Bobby's World eventually coming back. I would be happy to do that.

Hannah Arendt

Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense, namely, its actor and sufferer ... but nobody is the author ...

Gene Robinson

I'll be at Lambeth telling my story

Frederick Buechner

the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all

Frank Turner

We're definitely going to hell. But we'll have all the best stories to tell

Federico Garcia Lorca

If I told you the whole story it would never end...What's happened to me has happened to a thousand woman.

Faith Prince

I'm from the South, so I tend to tell stories. That's how we express ourselves.

Faith Hill

I don't know why 'happy' can't be a story.

Eve Ensler

When you listen to other women’s stories, you begin to understand your own better, and you begin to find ways back through and with each other.

Francis Ford Coppola

I have always credited the writer of the original material above the title: Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Bram Stoker's Dracula, or John Grisham's The Rainmaker. I felt that I didn't have the right to Francis Coppola's anything unless I had written the story and the screenplay.

Anthony Shadid

I don't think there's any story worth dying for, but I do think there are stories worth taking risks for.

Jim Harrison

A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.

Jim Harrison

Death steals everything except our stories.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Create a story of WOW that will be retold.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough.

Jennifer McMahon

Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.

Jennifer Nettles

I have always loved and continued to love Johnny Depp. Period. End of story.

Jennifer Lynch

I love how a story can help someone discuss something they otherwise would not.

Jason Alexander

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

Michelle Paver

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

Stephen Jay Gould

So much of science proceeds by telling stories.

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!

Andy Weir

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

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

Michael Scott

Research is always the best part. As we dug deeper into the history and mythology behind each of the hallows, we discovered more and more stories - some of them deserving of novels in themselves.

Michael Scott

All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability.

Nicolas Roeg

I've always admired the tradition of storytellers who sat in the public market and told their stories to gathered crowds. They'd start with a single premise and talk for hours - the notion of one story, ever-changing but never-ending.

Nicholson Baker

Some after-the-fact storytelling is inevitable, and, in fact, very good and useful. But then we want always to be able to enrich the stories, or maybe change the stories with a fresh infusion of specificity.

Nigel Evans

There were so many stories around, it was almost inevitable some of them would turn out to be true.