If somebody comes up and says, "[Barack] Obama was born in Kenya," the story becomes, "Will Obama succeed in refuting this charge… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I don't know enough about the lower classes to write about them. I don't feel with them, and that could be regarded… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
In the business world, I did fairly well, but wasn't happy. A bout of sciatica put me flat on my back. All… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
What justifies a character singing one idea for 3 minutes on the screen? I get impatient and want the story to carry… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
Music is, by far, the best art. Nothing even comes close. It's so immediate and emotional. In writing, maybe ninety percent of… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women-whose stories, for… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
[I have a] way of making narrative sculpture, where first you make a text and out of that text you make objects.… — Matthew Barney Copy Share Image
The theme you choose may change or simply elude you, but being your own story means you can always choose the tone.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Our future depends on stories. As the world advances, literature has the ability to ground us—in our humanness, our imaginations, and our… — Pawan Mishra Copy Share Image
The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Let's talk about the other story: the women raped and killed. I don't believe it. Certainly there was no lack of excesses,… — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
I say, as a singer grows older, his conception grows a little deeper, because he lives life and he understands what he… — Sam Cooke Copy Share Image
There is nobody so weak of invention that cannot make some little stories to villify his enemy. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I love sharing my stories and experiences with people and connecting to them on both a humorous and emotional level. — Tori Spelling Copy Share Image
I think writers can get too attached to these worlds they create, these characters they make real, so that, instead of ending… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
People say 'Women's Wear' is a scandalous, gossipy publication. Sure we have gossip; we also have some very, very solid business stories.… — John Fairchild Copy Share Image
International correspondents with their long dictaphones, and dirty jeans, and five hundred words before whiskey, are slouched over the red velvet chairs,… — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Writers shouldn't fall in love with their characters so much that they lose sight of what they're trying to accomplish. The idea… — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
Taylor is a musician who does things under her own name and tells her own stories-her songs and her albums are her. — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
My brother-in-law wrote an unusual murder story. The victim got killed by a man from another book. — Robert Sylvester Copy Share Image
The Talmud tells a story about a great Rabbi who is dying, he has become a goses, but he cannot die because… — Jonathan Rosen Copy Share Image
Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
This is a funny story. We'd asked the guards every day for cappuccino. You know, just as a joke. And they'd come… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
Don't believe stories which you see in the papers about troops asking as a special privilege not to be relieved. We stick… — Harry Yoxall Copy Share Image
“stories don’t just make us matter to each other—maybe they’re also the only way to the infinite mattering he’d been after for… — John Green Copy Share Image
Rumors and reports of man's relation with animals are the world's oldest news stories, headlined in the stars of the zodiac, posted… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
“Their story, yours, mine - it's what we all carry with us on this trip we take, and we owe it to… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
That's what Hanukkah is about: trying to survive the darkness on the far-fetched hope there's still some life and light left in… — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share Image
I am optimistic. I think that there are a lot of women producing things, not necessarily in the studios. Actresses are putting… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
My dad fought in Korea. It was one of the first stories I remember hearing about. — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
![“If somebody comes up and says, "[Barack] Obama was born in Kenya," the story becomes, "Will Obama succeed in refuting this charge and then can we make these villains making the charge look like reprobates?" No examination of the allegation or examination of the issues.” quote by Rush Limbaugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/abd/rush-limbaugh-28_allegations_if-somebody-comes-up-and-says-barack-oba_2991510.jpg)
![“[I have a] way of making narrative sculpture, where first you make a text and out of that text you make objects. [...] I start with a story and then I make sculpture from that story, it's just that the stories become more and more elaborate.” quote by Matthew Barney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5c9/matthew-barney-39025_firsts_i-have-a-way-of-making-narrative-sculptu_2992433.jpg)
![“I am optimistic. I think that there are a lot of women producing things, not necessarily in the studios. Actresses are putting stuff together. I think there are more stories about women of color [and] older women. But it is slim pickings.” quote by Susan Sarandon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/095/susan-sarandon-2799_actresses_i-am-optimistic-i-think-that-there-are-a_2999481.jpg)
