Once man has lost the fundamental orientation which unifies his existence, he breaks down into the multiplicity of his desires; in refusing… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
What writers do - everything comes from inside, from experiences of the world that we have digested. And then we turn it… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
I want to get a gold star. And I know that there are places that I need to go in order to… — Samantha Bee Copy Share Image
You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were,… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
A journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet. A tower nine stories high is built from a small… — Laozi Copy Share Image
You don't necessarily need to go to film school to learn that part of it. But what I valued was that it… — Meera Menon Copy Share Image
What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can't get that from a… — Sarah Jio Copy Share Image
“The attraction of reading is that it allows you to live, for a few hours, as someone else—grants you access to their… — Alessandra Torre Copy Share Image
There is that great proverb - that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Doing a love story as a genre, and looking at love stories in movies, and feeling like I learned stuff about that,… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I get hundreds of emails daily and a lot of feedback from people that are reading or have read my books. When… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The only thing better than a superb collection of spinechilling stories, is a superb collection of spinechilling stories accompanied by equally unsettling… — Kealan Patrick Burke Copy Share Image
When you start trying to figure out what you're the best at, that's when you become delusional because you start to believe… — Pharrell Williams Copy Share Image
Since I begrudgingly started my Instagram account and my social media exposure/connection. I say begrudgingly because I just didn't want to take… — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
I write characters focusing on them as human beings, and then you wrap them within a culture. So I think I can… — Joe Robert Cole Copy Share Image
Despite my dad's assurances I was strangely nervous my stomach tight ever since we'd hung up. Maybe Deb had picked up on… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Humans know when it's not a good story. Unless you do this for a living, you may not know exactly why you… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
I love playing and chatting with children...feed ing and putting them to bed with a little story, and being away from the… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
There's a structure to a detective story that I can easily understand. I understand playing that particular game. It's like solving a… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
And I loved the whole idea behind the story, which is that you're beautiful, so don't let other people tell you that… — Mike Myers Copy Share Image
I loved the idea of doing a love story with people over the age of 60 and a film that will hopefully… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
I think it is an intelligent story [The Intruders]. You've got adult characters who are in search of some things that are… — Glen Morgan Copy Share Image
The future of our relationship hinged on advice from a fifteen-year old girl, a probably untrue story from a one-eyed Chihuahua trainer,… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I wanted to literalize the surreal here. Those are my favorite kinds of stories. I love when Gabriel García Márquez does that,… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
It is the fable of Jesus Christ, as told in the New Testament, and the wild and visionary doctrine raised thereon, against… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We can't say anything, but just remember that, on Fringe, nothing is as it seems. There's always a little more to the… — J.H. Wyman Copy Share Image
FBI Girl is a gorgeous, sumptuous book. Conlon-McIvor takes a subject (herself and her family) that might have sunk in other hands,… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers,… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
Mr Selfridge' is a lot more accessible than shows like 'Downton.' Everyone knows the store, but not everyone knows the story. Having… — Zoe Tapper Copy Share Image
For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
Maybe it stems from my newspaper-reporting days, but I took notes the whole time - getting the call, how I felt. As… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I'm reading George Saunders's story collection, "Tenth of December." He was my mentor at the University of Syracuse. The stories are mind-blowing… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them… — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share Image
When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
I have an immigrant story. Most people come here for economic reasons, or religious reasons, or racial reasons, or gender reasons, or… — Jacques Pepin Copy Share Image
Women don't question themselves when they enter into a story that has male characters, but men do question the validity of a… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
The future is itself a story, and predictions are stories we tell to amaze ourselves, to give hope to the desperate, to… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
However, the eleventh-hour nature of these changes left us frustrated and angry — because they prevent us from telling the best stories… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
![“When you start trying to figure out what you're the best at, that's when you become delusional because you start to believe that. [you're the best] I'd rather continue to ride that mule than to ride the cocky horse. You see people spin out of control like that all the time. Those are the most…” quote by Pharrell Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/903/pharrell-williams-2306_air_when-you-start-trying-to-figure-out-what_2684333.jpg)
![“I think it is an intelligent story [The Intruders]. You've got adult characters who are in search of some things that are out there that we sense are out there, but we don't have any proof. John's character stumbles into that situation.” quote by Glen Morgan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e28/glen-morgan-74129_adults_i-think-it-is-an-intelligent-story-the-i_85882.jpg)
![“Maybe it stems from my newspaper-reporting days, but I took notes the whole time - getting the call, how I felt. As soon as I put pen to paper, it became a story [Hunger Heart], not something happening to me but something I was recording.” quote by Jennifer Weiner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/45f/jennifer-weiner-2358_felt_maybe-it-stems-from-my-newspaper-reporti_219469.png)
