Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip Pullman

I'm with the Grimms on this: stories for young and old. You can't characterize them any better than that.

Philip Pullman

All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They teach it much more effectively than moral precepts and instructions.

Rachel Cohn

It still might be a shock. To realize you are just one story walking among millions.

Q-Tip

You can tell how good a filmmaker is if you can turn the sound down but you can still feel the story.

Joss Whedon

I tend to tell stories that have a lot of momentum; it's not like 'and then months later...' I like things where the momentum of one action rolls into the next one so everything is the sum of that.

Kevin J. Anderson

I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback.

Kent Beck

The system metaphor is a story that everyone--customers, programmers, and managers--can tell about how the system works.

Kenneth Burke

Stories are equipment for living.

James Franco

It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.

James Clavell

All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they're any good, the ending is a beginning.

Hedi Slimane

I like it to stay very organic, and to remember a personal story behind all my subjects.

Henry Ford

Every object tells a story if you know how to read it.

Nancy Werlin

Always remember: In the end, the surviver gets to tell the story.

Jose Canseco

I'm just basically telling a story of my life.

Jorge Luis Borges

Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.

Kevin Spacey

I can imagine there is going to come a time when someone will do 13 hours of a story without breaks.

Kevin Bacon

I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell.

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.

Simon Baker

A shot is only as every as good as how well it tells the story.

Shia LaBeouf

Every actor chooses their story at the beginning.

Shekhar Kapur

I tell a story, and therefore I exist.

Taylor Swift

'Love Story' I wrote on my bedroom floor in about 20 minutes.

Tony Robbins

We are defined by the stories we tell ourselves.

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.

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.