Famous Quotes & Sayings

John P. Kotter

We learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us.

Neil Jordan

My conception of it was that in a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a little bit off the trunk, come back, and end.

Neil Gaiman

There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.

Neil Gaiman

The great thing about Batman and Superman, in truth, is that they are literally transcendent. They are better than most of the stories they are in.

Neil Gaiman

Start telling the stories that only you can tell.

Neil Gaiman

Bod was thrilled. He imagined a future in which he could read everything, in which all stories could be opened and discovered.

Neil Gaiman

Stories are webs, interconnected strand to strand, and you follow each story to the center, because the center is the end. Each person is a strand of the story.

Neil Gaiman

Stories are the things that allow us to persuade each other that we're human.

Neil Gaiman

We owe it to each other to tell stories.

Neil Gaiman

Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.

Michael Bergdahl

Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards.

Michael Bergin

I was going to get the Carolyn Bessette story out of her one way or another.

But that is another story and shall be told another time.

Patrick Ness

It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat.

Patrick Ness

Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.

Patrick Rothfuss

All stories are true.

Patrick Rothfuss

All the truth in the world is held in stories.

Patrick Rothfuss

This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we can talk.

Patrick Rothfuss

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

Lauren Oliver

We all need mantras, I guess - stories we tell ourselves to keep us going.

If you tell the same story five times, it's true.

Paul Michael Glaser

Isn't any friendship a love story?

Paul Merton

I have never sold my story, done Hello! magazine, any of that stuff. I'm not guilty of exploiting my private life for cash and then saying, 'Oh, I don't want to talk about my private life.' I've never crossed that line.

Patricia MacLachlan

I never work from an outline, and often I dont know how the story will end.

Seth Godin

Your positions on EVERYTHING are based on the story you tell yourself and not some universal fact from the universal fact database.

Todd Solondz

So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.

Tobias Lindholm

It seems like as soon as you have written something, it dictates a story. So I need to be careful.

Siri Hustvedt

Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.

Sofia Coppola

I wanted to make a love story without being nerdy.

Sofia Coppola

I'm always a sucker for a love story.

Jerry picked up the technique of visualizing the story as a movie scenario; and whenever he gave me a script, I would see it as a screenplay. That was the technique that Jerry used, and I just picked it up.

Joe Strummer

everybody has a story to tell