The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of the purity of a Divine Being, as… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The movies I make and my interests are always about pushing the technology as far as we can in support of telling… — Joseph Kosinski Copy Share Image
Obviously, everybody's favorite form of web content is more story with principal actors. But the economics of the web do not yet… — Matt Nix Copy Share Image
There are some stories you can't hear enough. They are the same every time you hear them. But you are not. That's… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's… — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
You can verify that in news meetings I sometimes say, 'This is skewed too far to the left,' or 'The mix of… — Jill Abramson Copy Share Image
I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
You can go back and try to generalize, but then you end up saying things that all editors say about everything that… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
I think the thing I really got from Ginsberg was that you can tell a story through kind of painting pictures with… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
As an emerging photojournalist in the early 70s, my focus was on trying to create stories for magazines to the exclusion of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If only you could see the whole picture, if you knew the whole story, you would realize that no problem ever comes… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Then we started looking at story and what was making sense and what wasn't making sense, emotionally and thematically the intention that… — Bryan Burk Copy Share Image
There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
So I found myself telling my own stories. It was strange: as I did it I realised how much we get shaped… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
The book works better if I know everything I can about the ending. Not just what happens, but how it happens and… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I heard the story of a man, a blasphemer...an atheist, who was converted singularly by a sinful action of his. He had… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
I've never really considered doing stand up, but I have done readings/spoken word things fairly often in which I'll just tell a… — Laurie Notaro Copy Share Image
It is perhaps both a blessing and a curse that fictional worlds spring into my mind nearly fully formed and it takes… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Whether your characters journey daily to a distant moon or just down the street to the corner bar, what matters to the… — Peter Selgin Copy Share Image
I'm somewhat of an empath, I would say. I relate easily to ideas and stories, books, films, music. I'm moved by all… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
As we open the gates to Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, we know that millions of guests will open their hearts to this… — Jay Rasulo Copy Share Image
It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
If the story had been about anyone else, it would been dismissed as laaf, that Afghan tendency to exaggerate ---sadly, almost a… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Like Rodgers and Hammerstein, I'm not afraid to deal with themes about the ups and downs of life, yet which are still… — Harvey Weinstein Copy Share Image
The skyscraper - any building over seven stories really - will come to be seen as an experimental building type that doesn't… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Harold and Maude' was a seminal movie for me because it's not only a beautiful love story, but it's also about the… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
Like a cartoon world, where the figures are flat and outlined in black, jerking through some kind of goofy story that might… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful, I think it has to be a… — Ted Allen Copy Share Image
They also work as half-hours. The stories are all different but include elements of revenge, or the supernatural, or some sort of… — Bryan Brown Copy Share Image
We are each born into a situation-a particular body (its race, sex, health...), a set of ancestors, a community, a nation-and born… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
If there is a fundamental challenge within these stories, it is simply to change our lurking suspicion that some lives matter less… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've always sort of felt a little bit like I was on the road less traveled, so if I come across a… — Laura Bell Bundy Copy Share Image
The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world, because it tells me his story; and what good men… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
[Pawn Sacrifice is] about the 1972 chess championship between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky. I play Paul Marshall.It was a great story… — Michael Stuhlbarg Copy Share Image
I'd define it as self-awareness: an ability to trust your own judgment. An ability to see through veils of bullshit or spins… — Joe Copy Share Image
I love seeing the light go on in aspiring writers' eyes when you point out ways to improve their prose or their… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
You've read newspaper stories about elderly widows who die and leave their entire estates to their pet cats, right? Well, your cat… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I am not an artist, and I never intended to be one. I hope I have made some good photographs, but what… — Cornell Capa Copy Share Image