Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Bergin

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

Mavis Gallant

A short story is what you see when you look out of the window.

Max Irons

Once you become the story off-screen, you are less likely to be the onscreen one.

Maurice Blanchot

A story? No. No stories, never again.

Maya Angelou

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person you've ever heard of.

Maya Angelou

I wouldn't trade anything for my story now.

Maurice Sendak

You can start making up any kind of story if you want to.

Matt Walsh

We are the protagonists of our love story, not the spectators.

Matt Smith

We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?

Matthew Quick

The problem with the stigma around mental health is really about the stories that we tell ourselves as a society. What is normal? That's just a story that we tell ourselves.

Matthew Barney

I have a way of making narrative sculpture, where first you make a text and out of that text you make objects. I start with a story and then I make sculpture from that story, it's just that the stories become more and more elaborate.

Plato

Those who tell the stories rule society.

Paula Fox

To be human is to be in a story.

Ledisi

There's always a story in music, and it's expressed through my music.

Lee Child

British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.

Lance Armstrong

If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have refused.

John Updike

It is not enough for a story to flow. It has to kind of trickle and glint as it crosses over the stones of the bare facts.

John Shelby Spong

[Charles] Darwin, for example, is the one who made us face the fact that the primary way we tell the Christ story doesn't work anymore.

John Rhys-Davies

The script of 'Shogun' was so tight that you could not take a word out of a sentence, you could not take a sentence out of a scene, and you certainly couldn't take out a scene without putting ripples right through the back or the front of the overall story.

John Sayles

When I was really young I didn't know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories.

Nick Cave

Who knows their own story? It certainly makes no sense when you’re in the middle of it

Nancy Farmer

That was the best kind of story: when the teller was as much under its spell as the listener.

Nalo Hopkinson

I'd like to find great stories from as many parts of the world as possible.

Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story.

Marlon Brando

I suppose the story of my life is a search for love, but more than that, I have been looking for a way to repair myself from the damages I suffered early on and to define my obligation, if I had any, to myself and my species.

Mariska Hargitay

By coming forward and sharing your story, you don't know the countless lives you change.

Marjane Satrapi

I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your life, it becomes fictional. Of course, the truth is never far. But the story is created out of it.

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.

Nigel Kneale

I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.

Morris Chestnut

I want to tell stories for everyone, primarily.

Morris Chestnut

Producing is easier, I can just be at the set overseeing the story.