Now the amygdala is our early warning detector, our danger detector. It sorts and scours through all of the information looking for… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
I wanted to do a political film that is as nonpartisan as can be, because I wanted to do a story that… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
If at my funeral they're talking about my boxing stories, I'd be disappointed because this is just a springboard for when I'm… — Mark de Mori Copy Share Image
I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of… — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that… — Tabitha Soren Copy Share Image
My stories seem to always in some way explore mistakes and misapprehensions and the possibility of redemption - though that redemption doesn't… — Therese Fowler Copy Share Image
I think that stories, and the telling of stories, are the foundations of human communication and understanding. If children all over the… — Beeban Kidron Copy Share Image
I know we play a part in the story of progressive music, but for us those influences are the real fathers, the… — John Petrucci Copy Share Image
You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
And it is exceedingly short, his galloping life. Dogs die so soon. I have my stories of that grief, no doubt many… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
All nonfiction writers, whether they like it or not, are translators. The translator is the perfect journalist. The best journalism endeavors to… — Ilan Stavans Copy Share Image
I would tell myself to get more sleep! Believe it or not, I wrote the book while finishing my PhD in English… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
Well, I don't know anything about television. I'd never done it before. Initially, it was quite daunting to take on so much… — Diane Kruger Copy Share Image
It's only a story, you say. So it is, and the rest of life with it - creation story, love story, horror,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I am a man, and men are animals who tell stories. This is a gift from God, who spoke our species into… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
My childhood was spent with dogs, and I work with dogs surrounding me. This relationship is hardly unique - man-and-dog stories date… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
I've never been comfortable with the idea of using family and friends in stories. Which is why it takes me longer than… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories.… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,'… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
You could pick another two people and you'd have a whole other story and that's why films about love get made and… — Jim Sturgess Copy Share Image
I'm always touched by people's different stories of who they are and why they made the choices that they made. I feel… — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
My greatest interest in it was certainly not to avoid those things that were going to be controversial about the family but… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
All those - or most of those - who went through the experience during the Second World War - they want to… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Having room to run and having just the space to use your imagination and create stories out of everyday life, I think… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
For to sit in a room full of books, and remember the stories they told you, and to know precisely where each… — Sting Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me that if you could talk about your work in fully-formed phrases, you wouldn't write it. The… — Hortense Calisher Copy Share Image
I used to retain information extremely fast, so perhaps it's hardening a bit and I don't take the impression as well as… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
“Our stories make us who we are. And each story has its own purpose and its own reward. Each story rings true… — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
Shows like Game of Thrones, stories like that, only really come around once every 10, 15 years. I can't remember the last… — Finn Jones Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I… — Vanessa Hudgens Copy Share Image
I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
We only hear success stories. You don't hear about the hundreds and hundreds - the overwhelming majority that don't go anywhere. This… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things, then you… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
Every cuisine tells a story. Jewish food tells the story of an uprooted, migrating people and their vanished worlds. It lives in… — Claudia Roden Copy Share Image
You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
I see myself as a novelist, period. I mean, the material I work with is what is classified as science fiction and… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be… — Jacki Weaver Copy Share Image
And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
We, in America, love a story - we need a story to get involved in. But then everything becomes more about how… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
Tony Abbott might think coal's good for humanity, of course it was an important driver in the story of the Australian nation.… — Richard Di Natale Copy Share Image
