Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Stanton

Frankly, there isn't anyone you couldn't learn to love once you've heard their story.

Andrew Stanton

I've always felt you unearth story, like you're on an archeological dig.

Andrew Stanton

Change is fundamental in story. If things go static, stories die.

Andrew Stanton

The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.

Jean Craighead George

I would just watch the animals, and their stories would roll out when I wrote.

Anthony Minghella

I want to tell stories which require something of an audience, by way of thought, argument, emotion, because I'm more often in an audience than I am a maker of films, and that's the kind of movie I want to see.

Anna Quindlen

I hadn't written a love story before and I hadn't written a novel with a happy ending before.

Angelique Kidjo

I'm a story teller. I really know how to tell stories of Africa.

Angelique Kidjo

I am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.

Amy Schumer

The truth is, whoever I've dated, if I've ever wanted to talk about them on stage, I've asked them first. And I've gotten their permission to tell a story or talk about them before I do it.

Amy Sedaris

My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea market.

Anthony Bourdain

I like telling stories, and I tell stories that interest me. It would be boring to have to go to nothing but the best restaurants. That would be a misery to me.

Kurt Busiek

Mainly, what I like to do is keep things varied and not get in a rut, not tell the same stories over and over.

Edgar Allan Poe

You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.

Eleanor Roosevelt

About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.

Eduardo Galeano

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me.

Atul Gawande

And in stories, endings matter.

Atul Gawande

In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.

Elizabeth Bishop

I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him every ridiculous sentence of the way. How can they let him do it?

Elizabeth Edwards

A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.

Elizabeth Bowen

every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as an experiment, worth making?

Elizabeth Bowen

Story involves action. Action towards an end not to be foreseen (by the reader) but also towards an end which, having been reached, must be seen to have been from the start inevitable.

Elena Anaya

I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like the story.

Elfriede Jelinek

Every day, a piece of music, a short story, or a poem dies because its existence is no longer justified in our time. And things that were once considered immortal have become mortal again, no one knows them anymore. Even though they deserve to survive.

Deepak Chopra

Change your story, change your life. Basically, that's what it is.

Denis Johnson

We can’t always tell the whole story about ourselves.

Denis Johnson

I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

Brent Spiner

Hollywood has more than its share of harsh and crewel stories. In fact, it's probably more the norm than the exception.

Bret Easton Ellis

Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.

C. S. Lewis

The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.

Carl Barks

I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.

C. S. Lewis

But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman.