Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry Hannah

My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.

Barry Hannah

My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end.

Barry Goldwater

Perserverance. . .that's been the story of my family.

Eckhart Tolle

Instead of making up stories, stay with the facts. For example, "I am ruined" is a story. It limits you and prevents you from taking effective action. "I have 50 cents left in my bank account" is a fact.

Dee Wallace

A really good horror film has a story.

Dick Cavett

I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples' stories.

Edward Snowden

The question for us is not what new story will come out next. The question is, what are we going to do about it?

Eliza Dushku

No matter how many times you forget it, you can turn around and help someone. Or you can deliver a positive message or share with someone or just listen to someone share their story with you, it's just the best gift there is. And it's free.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.

Augusten Burroughs

I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors.

Arthur Machen

Old stories often turn out to be true.

Ayn Rand

If you tell an amateur that his story is not good, he always declares indignantly: 'Oh, but it really happened just like this!' The writer who doesn't understand that this is beside the point is not a writer at all.

Daniel Handler

A mystery is solved with a story.

Elizabeth Strout

All these lives," she said. "All the stories we never know." (125)

Eli Wallach

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

Eli Roth

When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.

Ted Naifeh

I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings. Otherwise, they aren't really stories. Just pages.

Sergio Aragones

With Groo, I try to do one story every book. Sometimes the stories are better if they go a little longer, and I choose to do it in four issues.

Aleksandar Hemon

There's a social and human necessity for some kind of continuity, but it's not axiomatic and not something you're born into; it's something you have to work at. And one of the ways to work at it - perhaps the best - is storytelling: telling stories about yourself to others, telling stories about yourself to yourself, telling stories about others to others.

Jen Lancaster

I tried, it was hard, I quit, the end. Story of my life.

Alan Rickman

Unless we tell stories about ourselves, which is all that theater is, we're in deep trouble.

Aaron Paul

I love stories that put you on the edge of your seat and make you feel something.

Marc Morial

There are, as is the case, conflicting stories about what may have happened,

This story is one of the more overblown stories I have ever seen,

Big stories have lots of angles, and you have to decide what part of that story you want to address.

Shepard Smith

I look for those moments that are 'gee whiz' moments. There's some 'gee whiz' stories in our show, and they can't be written like A-1 in the Times. They have to be written more like Page 6 in the Post.

Lynn Cohen

Not all stories translate well when read out loud.

Barbara Corcoran

The story of my billion-dollar business starts like this. I borrowed $1,000 from a friend.

Adam Braun

Your life should be a story you are excited to tell.

Adam Braun

Make your life a story worth telling,

Anish Kapoor

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis

A. S. Byatt

Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.

Adrienne Rich

If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?