Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Pelley

The problem the cable channels have is they have to fill 24 hours. That's a terrible thing. We only do that on the biggest stories. The thing is there has happened to be a lot o

Scott Pelley

Journalists are getting big stories wrong, over and over again.

Scarlett Thomas

If something wants to be a story, it will be.

Lawrence Kasdan

Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western.

Lauren Graham

Well, it's more of a sane life to be part of an ensemble! I find that the work can be more specific too and I have to really make sure I know where I am in the story because I'm not in every scene.

Larry King

Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories

Larry Niven

I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.

Lewis Black

This is how sad my life is: I got a scar from scratching my chicken pox too much. That's my big scar story. I really have no major scars.

Joyce Maynard

If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.

Joyce Maynard

To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.

Joseph Campbell

Everything starts with a story.

Joseph Campbell

Every story you tell is your own story.

Karl Urban

A lot of the ancient Norse myths and legends are the basis of a lot of the sci-fi, fantasy films out there. Telling these stories in a contemporary medium, it's all good.

Julio Cortazar

A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within foreseen parameters

Julio Cortazar

For me the thing that signals a great story is what we might call its autonomy, the fact that it detaches itself from its author like a soap bubble blown from a clay pipe.

Joy Williams

The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how to say it.

Junior Seau

No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste time looking back.

Judy Greer

I'm finding now more and more that nudity is so rarely serves the story in any film.

Paul Krugman

Surely I'm not the only person to ask the obvious question: How different, really, is Mr. Madoff's tale from the story of the investment industry as a whole?

Paolo Bacigalupi

What I'm hoping to do though is to ground my extrapolations in specificity, and to make sure that the story I tell is deliberately and honestly told.

Patton Oswalt

Based on my own experience, when you're going through adolescence you don't know how the world works. You can't set a story in the world you live in because you don't know what a utility bill is, or how to budget your paycheck.

Karen Kingsbury

Readers need to see themselves between the lines of the story.

Karen Russell

Once you figure out what's best for the story, take out the rest.

Karen Russell

You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.

George Lucas

My life is making movies. I like storytelling, and I've got a lot of stories that are stored up in my head that I hope to get out before my time is up.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Felipe and I, as we discover to our delight, are a perfectly matched, genetically engineered belly-to-belly success story.

Jimmy Fallon

I'm so excited. Jay Leno is on the show tonight. He brought some really funny jokes and some great stories. Although I'm a little concerned he also brought his old desk and Kevin Eubanks. I just want Jay to be comfortable, but not too comfortable.

Jimmy Fallon

I didn't act like I was there. I just got into the story.

Madeleine L'Engle

As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.

Madeleine L'Engle

We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are.

Madeleine L'Engle

Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically.

Lynne Truss

Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling.

John Garfield

Must I tell the story of my life again?