Aimee Parkison offers a distinct new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal… — Carol Anshaw Copy Share Image
We're trying to tell stories. We're a company that's concerned with global change and the effect of global cinema. We're not simply… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
I've always found as an actress that the best thing to do in film or TV or theater is just to lose… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
From Shakespeare to Robi Thakur, everyone has written stories about people and incidents around them. There is no creativity minus reality irrespective… — Vidya Balan Copy Share Image
You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The truth is, whoever I've dated, if I've ever wanted to talk about them on stage, I've asked them first, and I've… — Amy Schumer Copy Share Image
“My stories are my children. Some are sweet infants that I coddle and care for. Others are old enough now, they need… — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
If you take my sayings and explode them in the air, they remain only sayings. But if you fit them together in… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
My theory for nonfiction is that nobody can be free of some kind of conceptions about whatever story they're writing. But if… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
In one way or another, I always marked my pictures. But there were times when I put my signature on the back… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
As we get older it is our short term memory that fades rather than our long term memory. Perhaps we have evolved… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
The early Christians' opponents all accepted that Jesus existed, taught, had disciples, worked miracles, and was put to death on a Roman… — Graham Stanton Copy Share Image
Live Free or Die Hard may work better for an audience that doesn't know much about the series is than it will… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
When you start, it's very cold, an impossible task. But then maybe the characters start to take on a little bit of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It does not bother me that some say I'm dull and boring because the people that do know me will tell you… — Alan Shearer Copy Share Image
I think all the songs [at Moth] are about different things, but if we were to speak about it as a whole,… — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
There's a story behind every old ballad or work song or nonsense song that I ever knew. Sometimes it's a fascinating story.… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome of your work and you'll soon… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I've never been passionate about just music, I've never seen myself going into music in that sense. My love for music has… — Grant Gustin Copy Share Image
One might ask why tobacco is legal and marijuana not. A possible answer is suggested by the nature of the crop. Marijuana… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As a person who grew up in a border town, it is important to me that I use my education and my… — Raul Castillo Copy Share Image
When he grew old, Aristotle, who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer, liked to lose himself in the most labyrinthine and… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
The bible must be seen in a cultural context. It didn't just happen. These stories are retreads. But, tell a Christian that… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The memory came faint and cold of the story I might have told, a story in the likeness of my life, I… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Pam has always been my glamorous big sister - 13 years older than I. She played on the women's circuit for nine… — Tracy Austin Copy Share Image
I am excited to share my archive pictures and footage. I'll also share announcements about current events and success stories from the… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
The tree which needs two arms to span its girth sprang from the tiniest shoot. Yon tower, nine stories high, rose from… — Laozi Copy Share Image
That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying… — Gene Siskel Copy Share Image
Very quickly I realized that directing is a combination of things: It's visual, it's directing the actors, it's telling a story. And… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
As the child approaches a new text he is entitled to an introduction so that when he reads, the gist of the...… — Marie Clay Copy Share Image
Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not… — Chris Priestley Copy Share Image
I had an agent who spent eight years - eight years! - trying to sell my stories. She sold other people's work;… — Bebe Moore Campbell Copy Share Image
American pictures usually have no subject, only a story. A pretty woman is not a subject. Julia Roberts doing this and that… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
In general, even if I'm dealing with a historical subject, I begin with invention rather than investigation, because I need to understand… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
In the private system and the private schools, the principal is pretty much a dictator. He or she can hire whoever s/he… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
[I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of… — Homer Copy Share Image
I always begin with a source of inspiration that comes from nature. The story comes from my research, volunteering, and meeting the… — Mary Alice Monroe Copy Share Image
The great thing about Batman and Superman, in truth, is that they are literally transcendent. They are better than most of the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The romance is the primary plot in a story that has two plots. The second plot is not a subplot, but one… — Madeline Hunter Copy Share Image
![“I think all the songs [at Moth] are about different things, but if we were to speak about it as a whole, it's really about, it's about joy, and about sensuality and vulnerability and also fun, energy, living in New York in 2015, being out of control, wanting to be in control, failing! It's a sort…” quote by Caroline Polachek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/511/caroline-polachek-7945_different_i-think-all-the-songs-at-moth-are-about_1597640.jpg)
![“When he grew old, Aristotle, who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer, liked to lose himself in the most labyrinthine and subtle of discourses […]. ‘The more solitary and isolated I become, the more I come to like stories,’ he said.” quote by Michel de Certeau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/11a/michel-de-certeau-15812_aristotle_when-he-grew-old-aristotle-who-is-not-ge_702039.jpg)
![“[I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool – it drives the man to dancing... it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told.” quote by Homer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9eb/homer-357_alcohol_i-t-is-the-wine-that-leads-me-on-the-wil_1497379.png)
