Famous Quotes & Sayings

I just want to get it straight, ... There are so many stories out there.

Everyone is talking about USC making history. But we win on Wednesday, what do we do? I think there's going to be a lot of stories that are going to have to be rewritten.

Everyone is talking about USC making history. But (if) we win Wednesday, what do we do? I think there's going to be a lot of stories that are going to have to be rewritten.

Everyone is talking about this as USC making history. But if we win on Wednesday, what do we do? I think there're going to be a lot of stories that are going to have to be rewritten.

Joyce Maynard

Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.

Dan Rather

I know that this story is true.

Dan Millman

Life is not a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared.

Cornelia Funke

What are stories for if we don't learn from them?

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you.

Conan O'Brien

It's been reported that some of Arnold Schwarzenegger's opponents have been circulating naked pictures of Arnold on the Internet. Yeah, in a related story, Arnold is leading the other candidates by four inches.

Conan O'Brien

'Shrek 2' made over $120 million during its first week. In a related story, John Kerry asked Shrek to marry him.

Henry Petroski

As long as there are things to wonder about, there are stories to be written about them. That makes me happy, because writing about things seems to be my thing.

Ursula K. Le Guin

To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.

Darren Criss

I’ve always loved fairytales, and I’ve loved the concept of, um, some of the best parts of a lot of stories are the beginning.

David Wroblewski

It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost—not an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions. All of which is to say: stories, too, are wild things.

Davy Rothbart

Every day when I open the mail I encounter a find with a brand-new brew of story and emotion.

David Spade

When I'm interviewed on Leno, just be funny, period. That's all they want from me. I don't want to tell my life story.

David Lynch

To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words.

David Halberstam

If youre a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.

David Caruso

Any story you've heard of my behavior is probably true.

Dan Brown

The greatest story ever told is, in fact, the greatest story ever sold

Daniel Woodrell

It's not always to the benefit of the story to have it so preordained.

Daniel Woodrell

I always loved the verve and vivacity of pulp and I kind of merged it with my own interest in family stories.

Courtney Thorne-Smith

I got out of autobiography because my story is, I was famous, it was hard for me, I got into therapy. I had trouble with food, I got a nutritionist. There's no story there.

Dave Eggers

I had forgotten that, and so many things. How could I put everything down on paper? It seemed impossible. No matter what, the majority of life would be left out of this story, this sliver of a version of the life I'd known. But I tried anyway.

Dave Eggers

To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be a graphic novel, so that will have to be that way.

Dave Eggers

The weird thing is that working within an established story was actually kind of liberating. You know the beginning and middle and end, more or less, so there's less pressure to figure all that out.

David Lee Roth

I just wanted to be in show biz. I wanted to make music and sing and dance, tell jokes and stories, make ya smile, make ya cry - and charge you $ 8.50

David Levithan

How sad it must be for you to be nothing more than a hollow statue, to have your tomb preserved and your story forgotten.

David Levithan

I'm a firm believer that every person, young or old, has at least one good story to tell.

Stephen Jay Gould

The history of life is more adequately represented by a picture of 'punctuated equilibria' than by the notion of phyletic gradualism. The history of evolution is not one of stately unfolding, but a story of homeostatic equilibria, disturbed only 'rarely' (i.e. rather often in the fullness of time) by rapid and episodic events of speciation.

Stephen Jay Gould

... each with its own beauty, and each with a story to tell.

Stephen Jay Gould

Something deep within us drives accurate messiness into the neat channels of canonical stories.