Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joey Skaggs

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

Joe Lando

I enjoy doing romantic stories. I've done a lot of them.

Joe Jonas

I've gone through a lot of stuff in my life so far. There are stories I haven't really been able to tell.

Jincy Willett

Arithmetic is the death of story.

Frank Darabont

A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.

Lynn Abbey

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

Lord Byron

But stories somehow lengthen when begun.

Gabrielle Zevin

We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works

Maggie Shayne

I enjoy heroines who grow and come into their own during the course of a story.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.

James Packer

History is His story.

James P. Hoffa

It's a success story here in Michigan. We have hiring going on. We have new industries going on.

James Patterson

I love to tell stories. It's a delight for me.

James Patterson

What are we but our stories?

James O'Shaughnessy

History depends on who is telling the story.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne.

Henri Matisse

If my story were ever to be written truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone.

Henri Nouwen

...we all want to hear stories, from the moment we are born to the moment we die. Stories connect our little lives with the world around us and help us discover who we are.

Heinrich Heine

Graves they say are warm'd by glory; Foolish words and empty story.

Hilarie Burton

Everybody wants a sensational story.

Henry James

Make the short story tremendously succinct - with a very short pulse or rhythm - and the closest selection of detail - in other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form

Helen Dunmore

We are creatures of story.

Hans Zimmer

You always hear these stories of how Hollywood is so merciless on composers and how they all get beaten up. Nobody beats me up as much as I beat myself up. This is what I love doing and I have one life to do it in, and I better do it right. I better do it well.

Harlan Howard

I take a whole life story and compress it into three minutes.

Gustave Flaubert

I’m dazzled by your facility. In ten days you’ll have written six stories! I don’t understand it… I’m like one of those old aqueducts: there’s so much rubbish cogging up the banks of my thought that it flows slowly, and only spills from the end of my pen drop by drop.

Grantland Rice

It's not whether you won or lost, but how many bad-beat stories you were able to tell.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.

John Lithgow

Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music

John Landgraf

That's the definition of a mini-series. A mini-series is a show that has no continuing story or narrative elements between one group of episodes and another, so no, I wasn't surprised.

John Lee Hooker

The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.

John Barth

The story of your life is not your life; it's your story.

Jodie Foster

All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.

Jim Lehrer

The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story.