Famous Quotes & Sayings

We've got a lot of different stories about what precipitated this, but we don't know for sure.

Baz Luhrmann

In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.

Mark Sheppard

With sci-fi you get these kind of stories in historical drama, and it's just so fabulous.

Erin Morgenstern

I suppose there will never be a lack of things to say, of stories to be told and shared.

Erin Morgenstern

Tarot is just stories on cards.

Erin Morgenstern

Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth the story once had is buried in bias and embellishment. The reasons do not matter as much as the story itself.

Cassandra Clare

Well, why did you kill Jeremiah? And don't bother feeding me some story about how you just happened to wander along after he spontaneously died. I know you did this.

Carolyn Heilbrun

One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.

Carolyn Heilbrun

Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.

Carmen Laforet

I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no end to our story until death comes and the body decays...

Muriel Rukeyser

The world is not made of molecules, the world is made of stories.

Muriel Rukeyser

The world is made up of Stories, not Atoms.

Mindy Kaling

I have such a rich fantasy life, I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head.

Mike Rutherford

Everyone I talk to has a Genesis story to tell.

Kurt Loder

Television's not going read stories to you.

Kumail Nanjiani

We only hear success stories. You don't hear about the hundreds and hundreds - the overwhelming majority that don't go anywhere. This is a more realistic portrayal of what happens in startups.

Kathie Lee Gifford

We heard stories about fakery and decoys at revivals. I never personally saw any trickery.

Matt Drudge

There's nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world.

Nicholas Sparks

Who am I? And how, I wonder, will this story end?

Nicholas Sparks

Whenever I work on a film, I have three rules. Only three and I tell them to every screenwriter. I say let's retain the spirit and the intent of the overall story. Let's make it the best film that we possibly can.

Margot Asquith

the announcement that you are going to tell a good story (and the chuckle that precedes it) is always a dangerous opening.

Marguerite Moreau

I like working in any medium. Who's making it? How much do I like the story? Does it contribute something?

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties.

Mark Wahlberg

I would definitely like to direct at some point. I've been very fortunate to work with some amazing talent and study them. But when the right time and the right story arrives, and I feel like I'm compelled to tell it, then I'll do that.

Jack O'Connell

It's an old story, really: seduced and corrupted, in the end, by an obsessive love for the text.

Ishmael Beah

My teeth became sour as I listened to his story. It was then that I understood why he was quiet all the time.

Isak Dinesen

It is not a bad thing in a tale that you understand only half of it.

Isak Dinesen

To be a person is to have a story to tell.

Imtiaz Ali

Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with Highway, there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended Highway to be the first film that I ever made. Didnt happen.

Hunter Parrish

I like telling stories.

Hunter Hayes

Anyone who tells you they're not nervous playing on the CMAs stage, I'm afraid they're not telling you the whole story.

Hunter Hayes

Albums are chapters. They're part of a story.

Gloria Swanson

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.