As kids, we always sat at the table with my parents and grandparents, and they would tell stories. We were very poor,… — Willie Robertson Copy Share Image
All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. — Margaret Atwood 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
I believe there's a landscape that exists underneath everything that we can see in present-day stuff. And I think that makes life… — Stephen Hopkins Copy Share Image
And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the… — Roger Mudd Copy Share Image
Apple made tools that helped people express their creativity and Steve Jobs knew that so he told that story well. But Facebook… — Lewis Schiff Copy Share Image
That's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
My film is very simple: An Eastern European story full of black humor about things everyone can feel and understand. — Malgorzata Szumowska Copy Share Image
Pirate Hunters is a fantastic book, an utterly engrossing and satisfying read. It tells the story of the hunt for the rare… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
Every word I write is like a drop of my blood. If it's flowed passionately and long, I need time to recover… — Red Haircrow Copy Share Image
There are stories within stories, whispered in the quiet of the night, shouted above the roar of the day, and played out… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Exercise your purchasing power as a consumer, volunteer and bring joy to those in need, and share your experiences, tell your stories,… — Blake Mycoskie Copy Share Image
Considering retirement? When that happens, I don't want that to be the story of whatever the season it is. I don't want… — LaVell Edwards Copy Share Image
I'm a professional. So before I published any novels, I'd always been writing stories. — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks. — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
The Tale of Despereaux is the story of an unlikely hero, a mouse, who falls in love with a princess and then… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Obviously, we suppress things, emotions, things during the day - thoughts that we obviously haven't thought through enough, and in that state… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
I am tired of reading reviews that call A Good Man brutal and sarcastic. The stories are hard but they are hard… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
When I was quite young I came across a collection of [Franz] Kafka stories and read "The Judgment." I was just floored… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
When he grew old, Aristotle, who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer, liked to lose himself in the most labyrinthine and… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
In my father's generation, the product was 80 percent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. He realized he hadn't… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
The idea that you could stitch together every detail episode to episode and preserve continuity for the length of a season and… — Michael Loceff Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter how much I think I know about Florida, it still flips me on the head every time. It's just… — Matt Passmore Copy Share Image
A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“I don't like the word 'allegorical', I don't like the word 'symbolic' - the word I really like is 'mythic', and people… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it's hard to parse… — Joel Coen Copy Share Image
The Christian faith grew through story - not text. Only later did the stories become Scripture. While the Scripture must be held… — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
If you want the film [La La Land ] to represent all things jazz, it does not. You'll be disappointed by that.… — John Legend Copy Share Image
We began our 'Luxe Life' and 'Vegas DeLuxe daily columns' not long after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and we've spent a decade… — Robin Leach Copy Share Image
Novels are very different than films and I love to see someone else's imagining of my story. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
When I had dyslexia, they didn't diagnose it as that. It was frustrating and embarrassing. I could tell you a lot of… — Nolan Ryan Copy Share Image
When I get a script and do my work, and then show up on set and work, it's the same zone that… — Michael Marisi Ornstein Copy Share Image
![“When I was quite young I came across a collection of [Franz] Kafka stories and read "The Judgment." I was just floored by that story. I couldn't understand it. I still don't. I'm talking about something I read more than 50 years ago. That story left a little scar on me.” quote by Stephen Greenblatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/550/stephen-greenblatt-10786_collections_when-i-was-quite-young-i-came-across-a-c_701892.jpg)
![“When he grew old, Aristotle, who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer, liked to lose himself in the most labyrinthine and subtle of discourses […]. ‘The more solitary and isolated I become, the more I come to like stories,’ he said.” quote by Michel de Certeau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/11a/michel-de-certeau-15812_dance_when-he-grew-old-aristotle-who-is-not-ge_702039.jpg)
![“If you want the film [La La Land ] to represent all things jazz, it does not. You'll be disappointed by that. But, if you just see it as one guy's point of view, one filmmaker's point of view, and one story among many stories that can be told about jazz, then it's not as much of an issue.” quote by John Legend](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2d6/john-legend-1666_all-things_if-you-want-the-film-la-la-land-to-repre_703689.jpg)
