It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of… — Frank Ocean Copy Share Image
It is my hope that our garden's story-and the stories of gardens across America-will inspire families, schools, and communities to try their… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
African narratives in the West, they proliferate. I really don't care anymore. I'm more interested in the stories we tell about ourselves… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
To Fred, those years seemed to pass like quickly skimming a book and then finding the ending wasn't what he expected. He… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Do you still look at each other like you once did, back at the beginning of the story when everything was a… — Alethea Kontis Copy Share Image
Most of what I want to try to do is continue to go places with fiction that I've never gone before, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The first couple of weeks of filming were quite tricky for me to find my feet with the character [Maigret], which wasn't… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
During the course of a day, some dark feeling comes, maybe some sadness comes, some thrill, some great happiness, some strange humor.… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I honestly would tell anyone young to start looking at stories and learning story, because I think that’s the next step after… — Bob Odenkirk Copy Share Image
At this time the fashion is to bring something to jazz that I reject. They speak of freedom. But one has no… — Thelonious Monk Copy Share Image
whether they'll write the story of my life as a tragedy or an epic fantasy... I was wondering if it was going… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Americans, more than most people, believe that history is the result of individual decisions to implement conscious intentions. For Americans, more than… — George Will Copy Share Image
For people who are displaced, you can reconstruct the story of your life from the objects you have access to, but if… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
As a horror movie fan, I was very obsessed with horror films. Still am. I love the genre. For me, horror films… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
If I have ideas, I want to put them in the movie. It's not a minimalist approach at all but I feel… — Wes Anderson Copy Share Image
The inside operation of Congress - the deals, the compromises, the selling out, the co-opting, the unprincipled manipulating, the self-serving career-building -… — Bella Abzug Copy Share Image
I’m not a brain surgeon, I’m not saving anyone from any life-threatening illnesses. But I get to tell stories, and that’s a… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
People understand when I talk about my son not listening, or issues at home or his real dad coming back into the… — Gabriel Iglesias Copy Share Image
Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them. I… — Judith Moore Copy Share Image
I think it's important to remember that writing is a gift and our stories are gifts to ourselves and to the world… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Action films are great, but an action film that has characters that are compelling and a story that people can care about… — Steven Seagal Copy Share Image
I think the world should be represented on television and for the longest its been limited. Ethnic stories specifically need variety in… — Aeriel Miranda Copy Share Image
Is Russia worried that defeating Daesh will open the door for defeating Bashar Assad? That would be a different story. But I… — Adel al-Jubeir Copy Share Image
In fact, some reviewers have said that as they got into the story they forgot that the protagonist is a black woman.… — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
Story-telling is subject to two unavoidable defects,--frequent repetition and being soon exhausted; so that, whoever values this gift in himself, has need… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
I have been an avid reader since my youth. Because I also liked to play tabletop games, I soon felt the desire… — Klaus Teuber Copy Share Image
I guarantee you that two directors that are any good can take the same story, change the name of the characters, change… — Howard Hawks Copy Share Image
The people who knew me and knew my work and trusted me, they knew then as they do now that I've never… — Jack Kelley Copy Share Image
Horror fans are very passionate people, and they are very much into the 'Saw' thing. So they watch sometimes as carefully as… — Tobin Bell Copy Share Image
Prior to Saving Private Ryan I never worked with men. I was always working with some babe, and it was always about… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“We create stories to help us shape a chaotic world, to navigate inequities of power, to accept our lack of control over… — Doug Dorst J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
I just understand... I mean this may sound kind of bigheaded, bullheaded, or cumbersome, but when people say they've had a really… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
I get my ideas for books from my own kids and sometimes from other children. Often when I am telling stories I… — Robert Munsch Copy Share Image
I've done 33 Sherlock Holmes stories and bits of them are all right. But the definitive Sherlock Holmes is really in everyone's… — Jeremy Brett Copy Share Image
I enjoyed showing a bit more leg in the last few stories. It was good fun, but it can be quite sexist.… — Sarah Sutton Copy Share Image
It's the way you play that makes it . . . Play like you play. Play like you think, and then you… — Count Basie Copy Share Image
Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
Originally I wanted somewhere to set my short stories about the sort of people I recognise having grown up with. Carnbeg was… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image