Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marguerite Moreau

I like working in any medium. Who's making it? How much do I like the story? Does it contribute something?

Mark Wahlberg

I would definitely like to direct at some point. I've been very fortunate to work with some amazing talent and study them. But when the right time and the right story arrives, and I feel like I'm compelled to tell it, then I'll do that.

R. Kelly

If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The universe is not made up of atoms; it’s made up of tiny stories.

Lisi Harrison

One of the best things you can relate to is a detailed story.

Patrick Ness

It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat.

Patrick Rothfuss

All stories are true.

Patrick Rothfuss

This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we can talk.

Patrick Rothfuss

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

Lauren Oliver

We all need mantras, I guess - stories we tell ourselves to keep us going.

If you tell the same story five times, it's true.

Paul Michael Glaser

Isn't any friendship a love story?

Paul Merton

I have never sold my story, done Hello! magazine, any of that stuff. I'm not guilty of exploiting my private life for cash and then saying, 'Oh, I don't want to talk about my private life.' I've never crossed that line.

Ken Follett

I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next.

Ken Follett

Most of my stories have some basis in fact.

Keanu Reeves

Hallelujah! Amen! Christianity is so inherent in western story-telling, you can't really get around it. But it wasn't something that drew me to it more or less.

Keanu Reeves

I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more.

Oprah Winfrey

The stories that you tell yourself can make or break you - no matter who you are.

Oprah Winfrey

Everybody has a story. And there's something to be learned from every experience.

Oliver North

Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story

Margaret Atwood

It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you're telling it, to yourself or to someone else.

Margaret Atwood

If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending... But if it's a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone. You don't tell a story only to yourself. There's always someone else. Even when there is no one.

Margaret Atwood

The true story is vicious and multiple and untrue after all. Why do you need it? Don’t ever ask for the true story.

Margaret Atwood

In the end, we'll all become stories.

Margaret Cho

It’s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else’s story.

Margaret Atwood

Kafka thought his stories were hilarious. We don't necessarily have that reaction to them, but he certainly laughed his head off every time he read them out loud.

Bruce Springsteen

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

Mary Oliver

We do not love anything more deeply than we love a story...

Pope Francis

The whole of salvation history is the story of God looking for us: he offers us love and welcomes us with tenderness.

Pete Townshend

I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.

Paulo Coelho

Imagine a new story for your life and start living it.

Paulo Coelho

All love stories are the same.

Primo Levi

Perhaps Kafka laughed when he told stories [. . . ] because one isn't always equal to oneself.