I’ve never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, ‘don’t try to fly… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Basically for me a story can be anything. Anything you tell me, anything I read in the newspaper, in any mode. I… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
When you're writing personal stories, you have to be totally uncompromising - to the extent that you can be - about yourself.… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
I've got a variety of different sources of news that I follow and every day there's going to be different headlines, different… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to… — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
I don't ignore continuity, and try my best to stick as closely to the current status quo as possible, but it's not… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
In Afghanistan this week, outnumbered Northern Alliance rebels on horseback defeated Taliban forces armed with tanks. Experts say the victory is just… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
The whole point of animation to me is to tell a story, make a joke, express an idea. The technique itself doesn't… — Terry Gilliam Copy Share Image
For girls and women, storytelling has a double and triple importance. Because the stories of our lives have been marginalized and ignored… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Fantasy works inwards upon its author, blurring the boundary between the visioned and the actual, and associating itself ever moreclosely with the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Who cares what the color means? How do you know what he meant to say? I mean, did he leave another book… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
[Donald Trump] puts a miner's hat on.The media, some in it, were concerned - or hoping - that Trump would have helmet… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
That is many poets don't know how to tell a story and they don't have a sense of how to put things… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Part of life is a quest to find that one essential person who will understand our story. But we choose wrongly so… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
Boredom has been used as a technique, it is a device. In Zen, boredom is used as a device: you are bored… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We are constantly telling ourselves what we most want to know, and at the same time are deaf to it. Why does… — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
I'm playing a very strong character, it's the story of the woman Polish Jews out of the Warsaw ghetto. I've just begun… — Sadie Frost Copy Share Image
In the past, the U.S. was the centre of the world, where everything was happening. I think my stories have always sought… — Hideo Kojima Copy Share Image
When AIDS was at its most brutal, frightening, my-God-what-are-we-going-to-do era, that was when vampire stories and stories about blood and trust swept… — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
I want to shine a spotlight on a new generation of women, who are creating, funding and managing some of the hottest… — Willow Bay Copy Share Image
The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“You’re a storyteller. Dream up something wild and improbable," she pleaded. "Something beautiful and full of monsters." “Beautiful and full of monsters?"… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I see myself as attempting to break ground. I definitely am trying to create my own genre here... I'm attempting to tell… — Ben Mezrich Copy Share Image
I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new… — Bob Woodward Copy Share Image
You see the images that the public is demanding. Why more reality-based TV? You'd think that after the first Survivor it would… — Montel Williams Copy Share Image
My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and… — Kathy Bates Copy Share Image
It doesn't bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs - because at least they're looking at the lyrics, and paying… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
The story of Joseph in Egypt and of the seven fat and the seven lean years has passed into the homely wisdom… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
There's a Buddhist story about the guy who wants to be enlightened, and then he gets a cow and a wife and… — Larkin Grimm Copy Share Image
The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
His soul is in his stories. I once asked him who inspired him to create his characters, and his answer was no… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
As soon as you start to question your own intent while you're still in the process of discovering your story, you're in… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
Stories are best when they 'emerge' from the depths, and when built in a painting from early sketch through the three-act process… — Billy Cannon Copy Share Image
I think there is a time, if I can say this; there is a time in a message where you might just… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
As for me, this is my story: I worked and was tortured. You know what it means to compose? No, thank God,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I've always loved sister stories in fiction, from the time I was little, reading about Beezus and Ramona. I've always wanted to… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
That's always my ambition is to create a character out of what will help tell the story. I've never been an actor… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, and therefore it's safe to say that… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image