Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Moore

They don't know how interesting their stories are to us.

There will be a lot of stories about this thing for a lot of years,

There were some real high-profile stories of corruption. That really got people's attention.

Ted Naifeh

I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings. Otherwise, they aren't really stories. Just pages.

Sergio Aragones

With Groo, I try to do one story every book. Sometimes the stories are better if they go a little longer, and I choose to do it in four issues.

Diane Setterfield

A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.

Diane Setterfield

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

Dhani Jones

When it all boils down, its about embracing each others stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good.

David A. Siegel

Her [ Onata April] great talent as an actress is that she has the ability to understand and listen to the scenario and what the story is, and then she can pretend and live that.

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

Alan Rickman

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

Chris Colfer

A villain is just a victim whose story hasn’t been told.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told — are really dependent on power.

Edith Wharton

The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form.

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.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.

Bernard Malamud

First drafts are for learning what your story is about.

Byron Katie

The last story: God is everything, God is good.

Byron Katie

There is no story that is you or that leads to you. Every story leads away from you.

Byron Katie

You are what exists before all stories.

Byron Katie

Who would you be without your story?

Byron Katie

The Work always leaves you with less of a story. Who would you be without your story? You never know until you inquire. There is no story that is you or that leads to you. Every story leads away from you. Turn it around; undo it. You are what exists before all stories. You are what remains when the story is understood.

Byron Katie

No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.

Byron Katie

You are the effect of your story, that's all.

Caroline B. Cooney

What more can life hold, than to know that because of your story, somebody out there has decided to read again!

Edward Snowden

The question for us is not what new story will come out next. The question is, what are we going to do about it?

Ai Weiwei

Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.

Jason Katims

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

Takafumi Horie

As for the stories in the press, I have no idea who researched them, or how.

Peter Farrelly

These stories are usually tearjerkers and there's no need for it.

Brett Ratner

I'm not tied to budgets. I'm tied to the story that I want to tell, and how much it's going to cost is up to whatever the economic situation of the studio is.

Augusten Burroughs

I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors.

Ayn Rand

If you tell an amateur that his story is not good, he always declares indignantly: 'Oh, but it really happened just like this!' The writer who doesn't understand that this is beside the point is not a writer at all.