Sometimes, in certain stories, I think we know at the outset essentially what the tone is going to be, or it becomes… — Joel Coen Copy Share Image
My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God he makes me a humanitarian.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
And I like being able to go back and forth, and I don't really care if it's a small budget or big… — Griffin Dunne Copy Share Image
My stories, I can understand them as a little toy that you wind up and you put it on the floor and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Writing helped to have jobs that involved running around, pushing things like dish carts and wheelbarrows. It would be hard to sit… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I used to go over to my friend's house and we'd watch VCR tapes, three of them a day, and I was… — Michelle Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Share your story with someone. You never know how one sentence of your life story could inspire someone to rewrite their own. — Demi Lovato Copy Share Image
I think a song that's got something to say. I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last.… — Billy Eckstine Copy Share Image
No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I once wrote that Black Americans are involved in an intriguing experiment to see if an oppressed minority can continue to march… — Gerald Horne Copy Share Image
Certainly my personality, my sense of humor, my outlook on life was informed by the experiences of my parents and the stories… — Geddy Lee Copy Share Image
We are embedded in the great evolutionary story of planet Earth, the spare, elegant process of mutation and selection and bricolage. And… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
It has been my experience that most human stories are circular rather than linear. Regardless of the path we choose, we somehow… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
I want to tell stories that I feel for, and I don't want to be a sell-out. — Sobhita Dhulipala Copy Share Image
Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
However, for story reasons, we needed to represent them in certain ways. One of the things that sort of blew me away… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
All countries must be governed by the modern people; they must be governed by the progressive people; they must be governed by… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
“I think that for humans, the most regrettable of omissions, along with unshed tears and unexamined lives, is untold stories, the things… — Martha M Moravec Copy Share Image
Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted… — Alice Cary Copy Share Image
Even when there's not a joke or a hook, the first line has to be good and snapem to attention. Songs ain't… — Dan Bern Copy Share Image
I worked on 'Blue Peter' and 'Tonight' and lots of TV plays, filmed people like Rudolf Nureyev and Ted Heath, and ended… — Michael Bond Copy Share Image
My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where… — Dennis Quaid Copy Share Image
I don't know about making a passionate love story, even if it's appealing for an audience to see a husband and wife… — Sandra Dee Copy Share Image
If you can see yourself as an artist, and you can see that your life is your own creation, then why not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I know a lot of choreographers prefer to do abstract dance and not be bothered with a story, but even when I'm… — Susan Stroman Copy Share Image
We are shaped by stories from the first moments of life, and even before. Stories tell us who we are, why we… — Daniel Taylor Copy Share Image
A friend gave me a drug for attention deficit disorder, because he's afflicted, but I'm not. So what happened to me is… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
For me, a story's a story if people want to hear it; it's very much based on oral storytelling. And for me,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Christians must return to the great story that has its fulfillment in life after death, so we may live and die well… — Michael Horton Copy Share Image
I am working here (in Amsterdam) on my last big triptych, which will be a tremendous story, and which gives me a… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
Orlando's a part of me. The next guy's a part of me. And the next guy's a part of me. That's all… — Shemar Moore Copy Share Image
I don't write as much now as I used to, but I write. The lines still come, maybe periodically, and I'll go… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
With 'The Tudors,' I had a huge amount of material - I mean, so many books and so much stuff about what… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
I think the detective story is by far the best upholder of the democratic doctrine in literature. I mean, there couldn't have… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is… — John Berger Copy Share Image
This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
