The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The moral of the story: perceptions are everything. During each moment you are in contact with a customer, you are the organization. — Jan Carlzon Copy Share Image
The basic story remains simple and never-ending. Stocks aren't lottery tickets. There's a company attached to every share. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
I hate when you see a film and after one scene you know what's going to happen and you can predict the… — Noomi Rapace Copy Share Image
There's room for magic and inspiration. There's room to live a better story. — Jamie Tworkowski Copy Share Image
I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I am very much open to Bollywood and would love to work in great stories. — Mahira Khan Copy Share Image
As human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by — so you’d better be careful what stories… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
I feel like in telling stories, there are the things the audience thinks are important, and then there are the things that… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
The biggest regret I have about 'Rubicon' is that we didn't end it. Sometimes you do these shows and you don't have… — James Badge Dale Copy Share Image
My father is a liar and so am I. But I’m going to stop. I have to stop. I will tell you… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
I like comedies, I like thrillers, I like love stories. Everything is beautiful; it depends if the film is good, who cares?… — Monica Bellucci Copy Share Image
There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
Friendship warms like a sunbeam; charms like a good story; inspires like a brave leader; binds like a golden chain; guides like… — Newell Dwight Hillis Copy Share Image
So take seriously the story that God has given you to live. It’s time to read your own life, because your story… — Dan B. Allender Copy Share Image
And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It's all about time, dimwit time, inferior time, people checking watches and other devices, other reminders. This is time draining out of… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I think there's a great storytelling tradition in the restaurant business that tends to attract people with an oral tradition of bulls… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
What's great is we actually have friends who belong or have previously belonged to the Amish community, so we got first hand… — Alyson Stoner Copy Share Image
I never really set out to research any of these stories. I try to lead an interesting life though. I guess the… — Arthur Bradford Copy Share Image
On the day my daughter was born, I started writing a book for her. The plan was that, over the course of… — Brad Meltzer Copy Share Image
One easy mistake to make with the first novel is to expand the short story. Some things are better as a story;… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
I believe you shouldn't force the audience's interpretation of a character or a story. The more you explain things, the less intriguing… — Takeshi Kitano Copy Share Image
She's no lady. Her songs are all unbelievably unhappy or lewd. It's called Blues. She sings about sore feet, sexual relations, baked… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
Dance and theatre afforded me the opportunity to discover my passion for acting, for telling stories. — Kelsey Chow Copy Share Image
As a writer, I challenge myself not to tell the same story - to tackle different characters with different issues. — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
Who has time to make up stories when the truth is so much more interesting? — Cecily von Ziegesar Copy Share Image
That's the problem with soaps, of course. The stories never end. They can go on and on and on. — Amanda Donohoe Copy Share Image
Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical. — Joey Skaggs Copy Share Image
Call on literary convention, and it will gladly tell your story for you. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Try writing an entire story with only a thousand words at your disposal. It’s a terrific lesson in economy and precession. — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
The Golden Compass is one of the best fantasy / adventure stories that I have read. This is a book no one… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
I'm not so naive as to think that everybody always succeeds, right? I mean, half of Shakespeare's stories are tragedies - right? — Michael J. Saylor Copy Share Image
Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I like fictional stories - like, things that never happened but the seed of it starts as real. — Jake M. Johnson Copy Share Image
When I was little, I always used to like to tell stories cuz it was entertaining to people. — Slick Rick Copy Share Image
I couldn't sit down and write a novel or a short story - even now - because of my dyslexia. But I… — Robert Benton Copy Share Image
I just did a dramatic love story. Whether it's a cultural phenomenon is not for me to say. — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Every small business has to become a publisher—a publisher of marketing messages and customer resources, and a publisher of stories.” — Jim Blasingame Copy Share Image
