If you're rooted to a spot, you miss a lot of the grace. So you keep moving, and this is the way… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
For me, it's owning the fact that I have a sensitive disposition along with a rampant imagination that makes up stories and… — Zosia Mamet Copy Share Image
[2015] it's a time that there's a clash of ideologies, similar to the Cold War. I think that a story like this… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
When I was shooting the film I did not see the story as an everyday tale or a social one. To a… — Andrey Zvyagintsev Copy Share Image
I like to make movies the way people made movies in the '70s, where they lived and died with these stories, and… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
I want you to be with someone who really, really loves you. A wild love! A crazy love! I want yours to… — Lucy Robinson Copy Share Image
As black people, we want our story to be this constant ascendance from slavery. But it's not like that. You push and… — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
In the old days, people would gather around the fire, or they would gather at a tavern, and they'd tell a story.… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
Stories are like genies...They can carry us into and though our sorrows. Sometimes they burn, sometimes they dance, sometimes they weep, sometimes… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
Johnny Depp's performance is quite remarkable. Sweeney's desire for revenge and the simmering anger and hurt that he feels carry the story… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
You cannot help another who will not help him or herself. In the end, all souls must walk their path - and… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
There’s always been a need for horror fiction, though - ghost stories have been a staple of every human society since the… — Bentley Little Copy Share Image
Loneliness is the inability to share your story, your Unique Self story. For most people, the move beyond loneliness requires us to… — Marc Gafni Copy Share Image
“The interesting thing, to the Sergeant, was how these stories were at least in one way quite true to life: you didn’t… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
If, when we compare two versions of a story, the second known to be a retelling of the first, and find that… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
I try to write about complex issues--young people in an adult world-- full of irony and contradiction in a narrative style that… — Avi Copy Share Image
I believe it, Chronicler found himself thinking. Before it was just a story, but now I can believe it. This is the… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
When television killed comedy and love stories, the movie makers went in slugging. They offered the downbeat, the degenerate as competition. This… — Joan Crawford Copy Share Image
[Wyatt Earp and the Holy Grail] it is a big story, which is why there are two more films coming, which will… — Evan Jacobs Copy Share Image
Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
For a certain type of woman who risks losing her identity in a man, there are all those questions . . .… — Anouk Aimee Copy Share Image
Stories had always been told about male genies coming out of bottles, but they were usually fat, old men. Never had the… — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
There is always something of the writer in the work but I don't think Melville had to be swallowed by a whale… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
When I feel that I'm going to write a detective story, I buy a five pound box of chocolates and a ream… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
It's rather disconcerting to sit around a table in a critique of someone else's work, only to realize that the antagonist in… — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
Taika [Waititi] came up... We kind of had and we sort of named this girl Moana, named after the ocean. And we… — Ron Clements Copy Share Image
...these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
We [with Neal Dodson and Corey Moosa] wanted to draw people in with a dialogue - whether it's a creative process or… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
White House political adviser Karl Rove was one of Robert Novak's sources for the 2003 disclosure of a CIA operative's identity, according… — Andy Borowitz Copy Share Image
You have to start by changing the story you tell yourself about getting older... The minute you say to yourself, 'Time is… — Diane Sawyer Copy Share Image
I don't write non-fiction because I get bored. Some of my writing is autobiographical, but not the way readers imagine. I use… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
We must let the world know children’s stories and we must take effective protective, legal and political actions to ensure that as… — Radhika Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon… — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
I'm generally not a social dramatist or comedy writer. My interests have always been more in psychological stories or personal relations and… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I'm a huge comic book collector. When I was a kid, I had both Marvel and DC. I was my own librarian.… — James Mangold Copy Share Image
The creative urge matters. Stories matter. Images matter. It matters that you were born with a genius, a guiding spirit, a daimon… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
Your body is the ground and metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopedia, your… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
The difference between a broadcaster and a host is that a host tells stories and dumb jokes, but a broadcaster can articulate… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Some stories are rooted in adventure, some in strife. Others are born of the heart, and the horrors and the joys locked… — David E. Hilton Copy Share Image
I get a lot of inspiration from research in mythology and folklore. I find that, you know, stories people told each other… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image