If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story. — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
We are what we eat, it is often said, but of course that's only part of the story. We are what what… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
All that back-story stuff doesn't help. What you get paid for is to stand toe-to-toe with the other actor and get him… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
The thing about stories is that they almost always find their way onto the page, even if it takes a while. — Karl Iagnemma Copy Share Image
I've always loved stories of animals and birds that can appear to be human, just by taking off their skins or their… — Delia Sherman Copy Share Image
After you hear even the shortest great story, it should fill you with a little bit of fear. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Speaking as a mixed-race woman, there aren't many historical stories about people like me. — Gugu Mbatha-Raw Copy Share Image
I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story… — James Herbert Copy Share Image
One of the things that's awesome about being an actor is that you get to do stories, live lives and have experiences… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
Movies really have replaced what traditionally were mythologies, that every culture had their mythological beliefs and their collective 'stories.' There is now… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Africa's success stories are delivering the whole range of the public goods and services that citizens have a right to expect and… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
“Rain's pouring and it's too cold. All people bored and I even accord What to do but spell a tale told: So… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
I learned that myth doesn’t mean a lie; it means a traditional story that tells you something about people and their worldview… — John Green Copy Share Image
Even if you're doing something that the studio sends you, or something that's based on a book or story, at the end… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I have long had a theory Bill Clinton-Hillary Clinton relationship. Not how they met, not that story, not the courtship or any… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I think British journalists do well in America because the newspaper culture there is so strong - telling stories and presenting them… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
[Harriet Tubman] spoke passionately about her parents, her friends, shared stories about her childhood - learning about all these elements and aspects… — Aisha Hinds Copy Share Image
Those stories weren't being written at all - stories about women's inner lives and outer activism. We've come miles and miles, but… — Marisa Tomei Copy Share Image
What I notice, as a historian reading stories about so-called nature miracles, the walking on the water, or the miraculous catch of… — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share Image
Since I begrudgingly started my Instagram account and my social media exposure/connection. I say begrudgingly because I just didn't want to take… — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
I write characters focusing on them as human beings, and then you wrap them within a culture. So I think I can… — Joe Robert Cole Copy Share Image
Doing a love story as a genre, and looking at love stories in movies, and feeling like I learned stuff about that,… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
“Just cuz you get to the end doesn’t mean you know what happened.” — Karen Tei Yamashita Copy Share Image
the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image