I've heard so many stories of young girls watching the Olympics and being inspired by it, and they want to do it… — Allyson Felix Copy Share Image
The fact that radio is so hopeless at delivering data makes it an uncluttered medium, offering the basic story without the detailed… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
Stories are the only thing that I can be bothered with. It's the only way that I can do anything, even if… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still… — Robert Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I'm not a religious person, so I'm not a hardcore fate fan but I guess it's got me thinking about that. I… — Caroline Dhavernas Copy Share Image
It's weird. People want you to know that they write. They want you to know they're a musician, rather than making music… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are… — Mae Whitman Copy Share Image
In 'Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels,' I retell the story of Jonah and show how Jonah was just as… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I love really exploring... you know, a cop drama for example is a great way to explore class in this country and… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
The story of Noah, like other stories in the first 11 chapters of Genesis, are archetypal. Noah's story tells us that human… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ...… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Which is mightily ironic since one of the most common criticisms of American women novelists (it's a load of crap but it… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Writing helped to have jobs that involved running around, pushing things like dish carts and wheelbarrows. It would be hard to sit… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I think being a singer-songwriter... your job is to tell a story that other people can't really tell themselves. And I really… — Gabrielle Aplin Copy Share Image
The problem is there are so many stories out there where I can pull that superhero out, put any other superhero in,… — Geoff Johns Copy Share Image
There are three sides to every story: my side, your side, and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve… — Robert Evans Copy Share Image
That's the luck we have with making films in Europe. It's still, in some ways, a virgin territory for a lot of… — Thomas Bidegain Copy Share Image
Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
I just think it's a great world to tell stories in, to tell cool stories: money, sex, fame, and scandal. Those are… — James Frey Copy Share Image
If we can forgive what’s been done to us . . . If we can forgive what we’ve done to others .… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
I know this is a weird niche, but a lot of my female friends have these strange stories where there their dads… — Casey Wilson Copy Share Image
I think that every show on television has its place. I think Married With Children or, I don't know, The Nanny... some… — Peter Krause Copy Share Image
As an artist, I am interested in telling stories that haven't been told before, stories that are going to affect people, and… — Naomie Harris Copy Share Image
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The characters are telling you the story. I’m not telling you the story, they’re going to do it. If I do it… — George V. Higgins Copy Share Image
I can't imagine how American readers will react to a novel, but if the story is appealing it doesn't matter much if… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
All of a sudden, I was hearing stories about how difficult I was to work with, ridiculous rumors about drugs and what… — Irene Cara Copy Share Image
The best stories in our culture have some sort of subversiveness - Mark Twain, 'Catcher in the Rye.' You provide kids with… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
People need stories...we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
The story of the Republican Party is of a far-right that has moved from the fringes of the party to a complete… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
As a child, I was fascinated by the stories of Dickens acting out everything in front of the mirror as he wrote… — Harry Lloyd Copy Share Image
There are reports that leaders from ISIS and al-Qaida met at a farm house in Syria last week, and agreed to work… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
I describe my plots as follows; A character is walking down the street when all of a sudden a piano falls on… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
I think that it's so powerful for me to go see someone like Bridget Everett at Joe's Pub and watch her weave… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
What a director does... essentially, it's storytelling, but a director also controls the feeling and the sounds and the texture. It's an… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
The fact, and the intuition or logic about the fact, are severe coordinates in fiction. In the short story they must cross… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
For several weeks, I have been the subject of leaked stories, conjecture, and false attacks about a land exchange. None of them… — Rick Renzi Copy Share Image
