Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ethan Hawke

My favorite stories are human, so I'm always looking for.

Erin Morgenstern

I suppose there will never be a lack of things to say, of stories to be told and shared.

Erin Morgenstern

Tarot is just stories on cards.

Erin Morgenstern

Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth the story once had is buried in bias and embellishment. The reasons do not matter as much as the story itself.

Christina Baldwin

History is what scholars and conquerors say happened; story is what it was like to live on the ground.

Christina Baldwin

We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story.

Christina Ricci

I really liked it. It was awesome - my first tabloid story. If you're going to have a tabloid story written about you, it might as well be with Johnny Depp.

Chris Noth

I don't know the politics of Hollywood. Am I hungry for great material? Every actor is. How I can get to it, that's another story.

Gerard Way

All of my favourite albums have this incredible amount of conceptual glue to them, even if they are not telling a story.

Hayao Miyazaki

You always have to appeal to your audience. You always have to consider how well your project will do in terms of admissions. I abandoned many stories because of that. But I don't get too down about it. It's something I accepted from the time I decided to work in films.

Henry David Thoreau

All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story.

Jean Paul Gaultier

When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story.

Jessica Lynch

I have repeatedly said, when asked, that if the stories about me helped inspired our troops and rally a nation, then perhaps there was some good.

Jeremy Brett

I've done 33 Sherlock Holmes stories and bits of them are all right. But the definitive Sherlock Holmes is really in everyone's head. No actor can fit into that category because every reader has his own ideal.

Harriet Lerner

Telling a true story about personal experience is not just a matter of being oneself, or even or finding oneself. It is also a matter of choosing oneself.

Homaro Cantu

I love a great conspiracy story. Who doesnt?

Howie Mandel

Now I have new stories and I feel refreshed. There is talk of Bobby's World eventually coming back. I would be happy to do that.

Guy deBord

The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive… compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic.

Gillian Jacobs

I have a lot of good stories for talk shows about the conditions in which I worked.

If Carter had been there when the AIDS crisis came up, it would have been a whole different story. It could have been treated like a legitimate disease.

Elton John

Until I can visualise what the lyrics are about and see the story or whatever, I can't hear the melody.

Richelle Mead

But I didn't know about the other story." "What other story?” "About how you and Adrian Ivashkov are—" "No, whatever you heard it’s not true." "But it was really romantic" "Then it’s definitely not true.

Rex Stout

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

Yahoo Serious

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

Twyla Tharp

In the end all collaborations are love stories.

William Joyce

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

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.

Tori Spelling

My whole life story is kind of a backhanded compliment.

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.

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

Most of us get our history through story.

Wolf Blitzer

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