Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.

Burt Reynolds

All you really have in the end are your stories.

Alan Dean Foster

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

I have a great story to tell and I tell it well. No holds barred.

Aimee Mann

For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it's bloodless, a little too fictional.

Charles Kennedy

My favourite novel is Frederick Forsythe's Day Of The Jackal, the story about the unproven case of this apparent Englishman who was hired to assassinate De Gaulle….

Charles Colson

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

Bill Hader

All the stories have to do with emotion. Emotion is driving everything.

Elie Wiesel

I wanted to come back to Sighet to tell you the story of my death. So that you could prepare yourselves while there was still time. To live? I don't attach any importance to my life any more. I'm alone. No, I wanted to come back, and to warn you. And see how it is, no one will listen to me.

Edward Norton

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

Brit Marling

The most intoxicating thing about being an actor is to surrender to a story that you never would have come up with.

Brian Greene

Cosmology is among the oldest subjects to captivate our species. And it’s no wonder. We’re storytellers, and what could be more grand than the story of creation?

Brett Ratner

I'm not tied to budgets. I'm tied to the story that I want to tell, and how much it's going to cost is up to whatever the economic situation of the studio is.

Ben Okri

The greatest religions convert the world through stories.

Barbara Kingsolver

This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market.

Barbara Kingsolver

There's always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.

Barbara Kingsolver

No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.

Bruce Springsteen

I told a story with the E Street Band that was bigger and better than I could have done on my own.

Bruce Springsteen

The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.

Bruce Springsteen

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.

Brian K. Vaughan

I don't start a story until I know where it's going to end.

Brian K. Vaughan

I've never had any interest in retelling stories from my youth.

Brad Meltzer

Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

Jane Campion

When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.

Jane Campion

A message I've been telling myself: the cinema is very conservative, and unless you have a story that satisfies you, that is within the unchallenging zone, but you love it, you can't do it as cinema. Otherwise, you better go do it for television, which is more daring now.

Sandra Cisneros

One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times.

Bela Lugosi

I'll take any story if it's good.

Arundhati Roy

Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.

Demi Lovato

Every life has a purpose. Share your story and you may help someone find their own.

Bruce Feiler

There's a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It's a narrative of hope.

Brendon Burchard

Your ultimate life experience and legacy is being built moment by moment, day by day. Your story is being crafted by your every action, all leading somewhere, all leading to what one hopes will be a magnificent crescendo.

Brad Pitt

I got into [producing] to be part of stories that wouldn't necessarily be right for me as an actor.

Brad Pitt

Illiada by Homer is one of the great stories in literature. And I thought its themes really resonated today, whether that was my projection or Homer's intentions. It didn't seem like we had come very far.