It is sound statesmanship to add two battleships every time our neighbour adds one and two stories to our skyscrapers every time… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
History class was a forty-minute squirm from which I would emerge unscathed by insight. Down the hall in English Lit, though, there… — Nancy Horan Copy Share Image
I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where Id give tips on shares. I worked there for… — Adam Faith Copy Share Image
Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person… — Samantha Bond Copy Share Image
College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school. — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
“Start Now, close your eyes for few minutes and then open them... so far it's going great... Now just think your three… — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
The story of Jesus makes no sense to me. God sent his only son. Why could God only have one son and… — Trey Parker Copy Share Image
I know this isn’t a conventional love story. I know there are all sorts of reasons I shouldn’t even be saying what… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
I have been brought up open-minded. If I didn't know any people from other countries, I'd think everyone was evil based on… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
My father used to tell me that stories offer the listener a chance to escape but, more importantly, he said, they provide… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
I learned as a really young kid, when my dad was telling me one story and my mom was telling me another… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
The dream of a writer is to be surprised by his characters. All of a sudden, they are living their own lives;… — Jean-Claude Carriere Copy Share Image
I'm not at all contemporary, not even modern, and the fact that I would be so quaintly attracted to that wrestling rule… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I first emailed Tao Lin a story I wrote about the experience of losing my virginity sometime in April 2011. He didn't… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
The Drama Years is filled with heart-stirring stories, just-been-there advice from recent teens and practical, actionable tips for parents. It's full of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[Leonardo DiCaprio] invited me into his dressing room, and then we went into his hotel room where we stayed. We shared caramel… — Quindon Tarver Copy Share Image
This technology will obviously become more prevalent. Who knows what will result? One thing is certain, computer technology will revolutionize the way… — Chris Wedge Copy Share Image
Just about any story we think about doing, whether we've read it in a newspaper, heard it on the radio or come… — Connie Chung Copy Share Image
I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being a pastor for 20 years I realized that the labels, agnostic, atheist, believer, everybody's human and everybody wants to know what… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
A story, in which native humour reigns, Is often useful, always entertains; A graver fact, enlisted on your side, May furnish illustration,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
You spend all this time, as a child, coming up with these fantasy stories, and here I am, sleeping in a treehouse,… — James Badge Dale Copy Share Image
I really want to have a really, really strong, one-sided opinion on something, and be connected to it and tell that story.… — Michael B. Jordan Copy Share Image
This story is not and never was meant to challenge anyone's faith; however, if one's faith can be shaken by stories in… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
How I work is that I write a story I'd like to read. Then you fly to Paris or Sydney and the… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“It is one of those stories that you just want to keep going and going - even after the last page has… — Vicki M. Taylor Copy Share Image
Going forward, which story will the media find more interesting, [Donald] Trump's or Hillary's [Clinton]? Does Hillary even have a story? Does… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Authors have to write for their characters, for who they are, that's the strength of books. Don't worry about censors. Just write… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Sneaking was a kind of deceit. So was disguise. Just past midnight, wearing dark trousers and Fox's hood, the queen snuck out… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
I'm a creative person and I use painting, acting, writing, writing songs, or whatever, as tools to just get a point across,… — Michael Marisi Ornstein Copy Share Image
my crime books are actually novels and are written as such. One might even say that each one is really two novels,… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
Probably my favorite job that I've ever had and probably will have - although I'm reserving judgment on 'Manhattan Love Story,' Tuesday… — Kurt Fuller Copy Share Image
Does research get in the way of the story? It certainly can. Anything can, given that as writers we're all geniuses at… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most basic organizing principle was pretty straightforward, and is frankly pretty common: the shorter of what are by my lights the… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
The reason books get banned, but movies can do almost anything is because the novel is more powerful than a movie. The… — Carolyn Mackler Copy Share Image
I don't travel and tell stories, because that's not the way these days. But I write my books to be read aloud,… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just… — Linda Vester Copy Share Image
One of the striking things about doing research on Malcolm X, and I believe that most Malcolm X researchers could tell you… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image