I love it when real science finds a home in a fictional setting, where you take some real core idea of science… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Great stories teach you something. That's one reason I haven't slipped into some sort of retirement: I always feel like I'm learning… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I started classical and operatic lessons when I was 8 and become an operatic singer and went to competition. I write my… — Cassie Steele Copy Share Image
As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls)… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either he’s a saint or they themselves are… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Edit your manuscript until your fingers bleed and you have memorized every last word. Then, when you are certain you are on… — CK Webb Copy Share Image
Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them lay… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
Evolution isn't just a story about where we came from. It's an epic at the center of life itself. Far from robbing… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
I pray for meaning. I pray for the limits of reality to become clear. For a world – and a type of… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Michael Rubio said Trump's plan was impulsive and not well thought out. The other thing that's really annoying Republicans is that this… — Mara Liasson Copy Share Image
The voice-over world has changed radically in the time that I've been in it. It used to be this rather small, select… — Fred Melamed Copy Share Image
When I was 16, my friends and I were all starting to think about what we were going to do with our… — Haley Lu Richardson Copy Share Image
You hear stories about directors using manipulation to get actors to do certain things, but I think when you're working with professional… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
Plays are literature: the word, the idea. Film is much more like the form in which we dream - in action and… — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
I enjoy looking beyond the obvious and look at the stories happening all around me - you kind of formulate things in… — Imtiaz Ali Copy Share Image
The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Instead of playing to win, I was playing not to lose. It reminds me of the story I once heard about two… — Sean Covey Copy Share Image
I think this takes a lot of courage and integrity to find your own voice and way to express not only your… — Danae Elon Copy Share Image
“I told you stories to give you wings, Raami, so that you would never be trapped by anything-your name, your title, the… — Vaddey Ratner Copy Share Image
All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Listen. The trees in this story are stirring, trembling, readjusting themselves. A breeze is coming in gusts off the sea, and it… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Don may yawn at the idea, which he often does, but the great thing about Don, he has confidence in me and… — Morley Safer Copy Share Image
I used to write stories a lot because you had to fill your hours some other way than watching television. So my… — Robert Osborne Copy Share Image
Unlike life, you've got more or less complete control over what's going on in your stories. That's not to say you can… — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
I really like dating stories, like in Betty and Veronica comics; I like David Lynch and H.P. Lovecraft for the dark gut-wrenching… — Fred Seibert Copy Share Image
One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story… — Ralph Bakshi Copy Share Image
So there's a choice that I made to tell stories that are still psychological melodramas about domestic issues. The challenge is to… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
More people telling stories leads to more interesting perspectives in this world. I often think we wouldn't get to these political impasses… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
With all the stories that we have, it's still rare that we get to see what goes on in the minds of… — Rachel House Copy Share Image
We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
I'm a music storyteller and collaborator. I hear character, location, and story as music. For me a score is there to both… — David Raiklen Copy Share Image
“It is customary to have vampires in stories nowadays - they are quite the norm, just like wicked stepmothers used to be.… — Jane De Suza Copy Share Image
I always have to remember that I am the narrator, but it doesn't have to be about me. A lot of songwriting… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
The myth of Canada, its hidden story, is of a contemplative country, a place of inwardness, where people can question the idea… — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
I love stories about two people who are doing illegal things, who we really enjoy watching despite the fact that we know… — Famke Janssen Copy Share Image
