“Your imagination can take you to the best and worst places. It is a ship on a sea of dreams and it's… — Aliya Whiteley Copy Share Image
“If the future depends on stories, then our future looks bright indeed.” — Pawan Mishra Copy Share Image
Lovers never want to say "I love you" at the same moment. Hence all the love stories. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
My work is to know the characters intimately and to tell their story. — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
We loved one another, man. I mean all those stories about the rift ... there was no question of a rift between… — Dizzy Gillespie Copy Share Image
“I have a friend who likes to date younger women because their stories are shorter. Old men like us, our stories are… — Jerry Uelsmann Copy Share Image
What I love about Gaga is her story, where she came from. Before she made it, before anyone knew who she was,… — Janet Jackson Copy Share Image
So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good stories seem to come quite literally from… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
At some point, you're just happy to be a working actor, but to be able to do it with people you really… — Matt McGorry Copy Share Image
In my father's generation, the product was 80 percent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
Good filmmakers actually are people who have lived life, who have something to say, who have stories to tell. People who fall,… — Juliet Asante Copy Share Image
Before you ignore another homeless person on the street, just remember that that could be someone's father or someone's mother and they… — Syesha Mercado Copy Share Image
Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing each year, but I told that story around the campfire… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
In horror stories or in fairy tales, the fascination with the morbid is also, at least for me, a way to prepare… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
Our story opens in the mind of Luther L. (L for LeRoy) Fliegler, who is lying in his bed, not thinking of… — John O'Hara Copy Share Image
I looked at the 1950 animated film [Cinderella], I read a couple of editions of the fairy tale that I have in… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
One of our jobs is to keep women working, which we do by keeping women coming to the movies. And doing that… — Lynda Obst Copy Share Image
I think that people have to have a story. When you tell a story, most people are not good storytellers because they… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, a funny situation is funny because it's uncomfortable or weird. The most memorable stories, or the stuff that you repeat to… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
It is all too easy for the liberal media to stir up the irrational hatreds of millions of people, who see themselves… — Robert Ringer Copy Share Image
Film, television, and working with a camera is such an intimate art form that if a camera is right on you, and… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
In a place where everyone knew my story, it was nice to know there was a chapter that ONLY I HAD TO… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
As far as intellect, what else is there? Without intellect, no story and no world. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
“There are many stories,” Unlikely Worlds said, “but most follow similar patterns.” — Paul McAuley Copy Share Image
The story [of the Sacrifice of Isaac ] is much more a part of theology than of history. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Pretty much always. We need to tell the story of our life to someone. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about. — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
The curious beauty about African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad story. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Plot and scene are still the hardest things for me, though I think they're the building blocks of what makes a story… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in telling stories that have a message because I really do believe that film is so powerful. — Naomie Harris Copy Share Image
Our scars are a witness to the world. They are apart of our story. Healed wounds that are symbols that God has… — Louie Giglio Copy Share Image
Perhaps our imagination needs crime stories to fulfill some craving we have, as a way to assuage a darkness in ourselves. — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
The Moguls is a story about guys that have all grown up together and are now in their late 40s, early 50s. — Joe Pantoliano Copy Share Image
I love stories and acting is a way to tell stories. Everyone assumes I've done it my whole life. — Cody Horn Copy Share Image
The Kite Runner is a story of two boys and a father, and the strange love triangle that binds them. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image