Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story

Baz Luhrmann

All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

Ursula K. Le Guin

To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.

Courtney Thorne-Smith

I got out of autobiography because my story is, I was famous, it was hard for me, I got into therapy. I had trouble with food, I got a nutritionist. There's no story there.

Dave Eggers

I had forgotten that, and so many things. How could I put everything down on paper? It seemed impossible. No matter what, the majority of life would be left out of this story, this sliver of a version of the life I'd known. But I tried anyway.

Dave Eggers

To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be a graphic novel, so that will have to be that way.

Dave Eggers

The weird thing is that working within an established story was actually kind of liberating. You know the beginning and middle and end, more or less, so there's less pressure to figure all that out.

David Lee Roth

I just wanted to be in show biz. I wanted to make music and sing and dance, tell jokes and stories, make ya smile, make ya cry - and charge you $ 8.50

David Levithan

How sad it must be for you to be nothing more than a hollow statue, to have your tomb preserved and your story forgotten.

David Levithan

I'm a firm believer that every person, young or old, has at least one good story to tell.

David Jeremiah

It's time to begin righting the story of your life.

David Eddings

It's only a story, isn't it?"... "Who's to say what's only a story and what's truth disguised as a story?

David Eddings

I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.

David Benioff

I like having my own story remain my story.

Dario Argento

This is my life - I want to tell stories. There is something huge inside me that pushes me to tell stories, and tell stories for an audience and everybody.

Dani Shapiro

Traces that live within us often lead us to our stories

Stephen Jay Gould

So much of science proceeds by telling stories.

Henry Petroski

As long as there are things to wonder about, there are stories to be written about them. That makes me happy, because writing about things seems to be my thing.

Dan Rather

I know that this story is true.

Dan Millman

Life is not a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared.

Cornelia Funke

What are stories for if we don't learn from them?

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you.

Conan O'Brien

It's been reported that some of Arnold Schwarzenegger's opponents have been circulating naked pictures of Arnold on the Internet. Yeah, in a related story, Arnold is leading the other candidates by four inches.

Conan O'Brien

'Shrek 2' made over $120 million during its first week. In a related story, John Kerry asked Shrek to marry him.

Baz Luhrmann

In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.