I think that if you're serving yourself before you're serving a story then that's where you end up being not funny. It's… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The way you speak of the characters in your story shows what you think of the values of conservatives‚ or evolution, for… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
In The Name of the King is the right title. To be honest, I don't know who had the final idea for… — Uwe Boll Copy Share Image
Don't worry about how pretty (the story) sounds, how lilting it is, and the imagery, and the metaphor, all that. Most readers… — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
Life is a story. You and I are telling stories; they may suck, but we are telling stories. And we tell stories… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children,… — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
We write for actors and even down to the smallest character in the film, they all have their moment. You take that… — Todd Farmer Copy Share Image
Vera said: “Why do you feel you have to turn everything into a story?” So I told her why. Because if I… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Before the 11th of September, in my discussions with many officials of the United States, some of them are Congressmen, I used… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
We talked--recent history only--and Lucas relayed the story of how Francis came to be his roommate. "He showed up at the door… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
The problem with relegating black history to one really short month, the shortest month, is not only are we telling the same… — Karyn Parsons Copy Share Image
I've been intrigued by 'Le Monde' ever since work took me to Paris once, and I noted that on a day when… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
I didn't get into Tupac [Shakur] until a little later, once I started understanding rap and people's stories. Eminem was the first… — Tyga Copy Share Image
I learned very quickly that the hard thing in life is to make good films. Technically, filmmaking is the camera and the… — Matthew Vaughn Copy Share Image
I think that sense of unreality inspired me to write the story within the book that [August] Brill tells himself, one of… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Every morning for, I don't know how long, I came over to Alison's [McGhee] house and we sat in her office and… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
'Cabin Fever' was very much inspired by 'The Thing.' It's really a perfect guy's horror movie: There's no love story, it's just… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
Kids love me because I write stories that tell them about their capacity for evil. I'm one of the few writers who… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Their gunnin' for me, want to see me fall, you know my story, been through it all, times I felt like dyin',… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I've always loved shows that combine both approaches - that have a mythology and a set of characters, whose stories develop and… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
Good books leave an impression. Great books forever alter the way you think about what it means to be alive. You Disappear… — Dara Horn Copy Share Image
I dreamed of being a part of the stories—even terrifying one, even horror stories—because at least the girls in stories were alive… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
I think every good song tells a story, as ambiguous and vague as it may be. And if you know what a… — David Cook Copy Share Image
You have to see the stories [The New York Times] have written, it's one after another, after another, and facts mean nothing,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I want New Story education to be skilling human beings and young people to provide basic human needs. Technology and all other… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
I will tell you that the ego in me would love to play the lead. I would have loved to have been… — Bob Bergen Copy Share Image
The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns… — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
The writer works on the inside and the critic works on the outside. I don't know what it looks like on the… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagination in books, movies, news stories,… — George Packer Copy Share Image
That sort of detailed filmmaking is one, hard to do and not have it be pretentious, and two, have it tell the… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
I'm certainly hoping that 3D gets to the point where people do not notice it because once they stop noticing it, it… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet's (Muhammad's)… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Everyone in their life has his own particular way of expressing life's purpose - the lawyer his eloquence, the painter his palette,… — Gino Bartali Copy Share Image
I loved school; I loved the rules, and I liked there being right answers, wrong answers, and being able to give the… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
In writing Snowboarding to Nirvana I have intentionally written an inspirational spiritual adventure story, which will hopefully provide people with metaphysical techniques,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In order for stories to work - for kids and for adults - they should scare. And you should triumph. There's no… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
![“I didn't get into Tupac [Shakur] until a little later, once I started understanding rap and people's stories. Eminem was the first rapper that I actually started dissecting the lyrics, and once I got attached to his stories, then I started listening to Dr. Dre, then Snoop 'cause they were all…” quote by Tyga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/329/tyga-579_camps_i-didn-t-get-into-tupac-shakur-until-a-l_500184.jpg)
![“I think that sense of unreality inspired me to write the story within the book that [August] Brill tells himself, one of the stories he tells himself.” quote by Paul Auster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc6/paul-auster-351_august_i-think-that-sense-of-unreality-inspired_3009692.jpg)
![“Every morning for, I don't know how long, I came over to Alison's [McGhee] house and we sat in her office and wrote the stories "out loud" together. We yelled at each other and made each other laugh. It was a lot of fun.” quote by Kate DiCamillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/455/kate-dicamillo-599_every-morning_every-morning-for-i-don-t-know-how-long_2433344.png)
![“You have to see the stories [The New York Times] have written, it's one after another, after another, and facts mean nothing, third-rate journalism. The great editors of the past from the New York Times and others, ladies and gentlemen, are spinning in their grave.” quote by Donald Trump](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb5/donald-trump-18_editors_you-have-to-see-the-stories-the-new-york_651336.jpg)
