Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yahoo Serious

Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?

Yahoo Serious

The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.

William Throsby Bridges

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

Zadie Smith

The end is simply the beginning of an even longer story.

Zhang Yimou

The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes.

Tyra Banks

Every woman has a story.

Twyla Tharp

In the end all collaborations are love stories.

William Graham Sumner

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.

William Golding

I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.

William Landay

Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.

William Landay

There is no absolute beginning to any story, after all. There is only the moment you begin watching.

William Joyce

Everyone's story matters.

William Joyce

If you really want to tell stories, do it and don't be dissuaded.

Walter Dean Myers

Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience. I'll call it what the lady who is the prosecutor called me. MONSTER.

Walter Dean Myers

Everything in life is made up...You make up that you are happy. You make up that you are sad. You make up that you are in love. If you don't make up your own life, who's going to make it up for you? It's bad enough when you die and everybody can make up their own stories about you. —Mr. Hooft

Walter Isaacson

Good telling of human stories is the best way to keep the Internet and World Wide Web from becoming a waste vastland.

Rebecca Solnit

For me, before I learned how to read I was really interested in story and in landscape and nature. I decided to become a writer almost as soon as I learned to read.

Rick Warren

Not everything in this life has a happy ending, but this life is not the end of the story.

Tori Spelling

My whole life story is kind of a backhanded compliment.

Robert Graves

There is one story and one story only.

Rudyard Kipling

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

Sandra Cisneros

The stories are what no one wants to talk about. So you make up a story because no one is going to tell you the truth.

Ruth Ozeki

Every seed has a story.

Wendell Pierce

Stories work, if they have a beginning, middle and end.

W. Somerset Maugham

A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for despising it.

Yann Martel

So you want another story?" Uhh... no. We would like to know what really happened." Doesn't the telling of something always become a story?" Uhh... perhaps in English. In Japanese a story would have an element of invention in it. We don't want any invention. We want the 'straight facts,' as you say in English." Isn't telling about something--using words, English or Japanese--already something of an invention? Isn't just looking upon this world already something of an invention?

Yann Martel

Most of us get our history through story.

Yann Martel

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

Wolf Blitzer

My best stories come from well-placed sources who point me in the right direction.

Zoe Saldana

I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.

Investigators wanted to make sure that their stories matched.

I'm the first to acknowledge those stories turned out to be wrong. But journalists get things wrong every day.

Pedro Almodovar

I remember myself at 10 years old telling stories to my sisters and brother. This is something I did through my adolescence and even through my twenties.