A tiny group of believers who have the gospel keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions who have never… — K.P. Yohannan Copy Share Image
First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
It's probably not an accident that the films that I care about happen to be about issues that matter to me, stories… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
So if you want to have a great video game-based movie you have to keep the mood of the game, use the… — Uwe Boll Copy Share Image
I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize.… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The media uses polls to create news stories. I think polls are just an extension of the editorial page, an excuse to… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art… — Charles Nodier Copy Share Image
When romances do really teach anything, or produce any effective operation, it is usually through a far more subtle process than the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Of course, I'm being rude. I'm spoiling the ending, not only of the entire book, but of this particular piece of it.… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter was stories was everything and everything was stories. Everybody told stories. It was a way of saying… — Harry Crews Copy Share Image
I've always enjoyed stories that take place in the future but my one disappointment was that the future books described never came.… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
The story of Mary of Magdalene reminds us all of a fundamental truth...A disciple of Christ is one who, in the experience… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“This story is always yours for the telling. This has always been yours. You can expand to fill it all or take… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
Long before I was a writer, when I was just a haphazard reader and a dreamer of stories, I learnt about an… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
We have the same genetic code for all living creatures. We have a large number of genes that are manifestly the same,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the… — George Stephen Copy Share Image
My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story. I saw the core… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
After twenty years and thirty stories, thirteen pieces were finally selected and the collection was born. So far, the blurbs from [authors]… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
The convention of the coming-of-age story and the love story were literally abandoned - because they had to be - and a… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer, to write these stories that would make people see the world in a different way. But… — Jeffrey Skoll Copy Share Image
What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in setting my stories against a big event, the importance of which my younger readers are slowly becoming… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories,… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Stories are like snapshots, pictures snatched out of time, with clean hard edges. But this was life, and life always begins and… — James Crumley Copy Share Image
When I was one day old, I learned how to read. When I was two days old, I started to write. By… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
Thankfully, readers send a lot of stuff. They see stories in their local newspaper. Or friends of mine email me, what they… — Perez Hilton Copy Share Image
Cinema really lends itself well to big, archetypal stories, you know, classic old stories and you need kind of a weird, big… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
There's a ton of stories that can come out of L.A. I actually think that even though I enjoy being in New… — Corey Stoll Copy Share Image
The AMA is urging the Federal Government not to classify marijuana as a dangerous drug and do more research. That's what they… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
At Al Jazeera, the first story I did was to sit down with a former Haitian dictator, Jean-Claude Duvalier, and grill him… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
In the story shoes are just a metaphor for what these girls go through...the grass is always greener and everyone always wants… — Cameron Diaz Copy Share Image
The thing about Depeche songs is that they’re so descriptive. For me, they tell some kind of story about a character who’s… — Dave Gahan Copy Share Image
The stories in Get In Trouble confirm once again that Kelly Link is a modern virtuoso of the form-playful and subversive required… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
I heard a rumor I died, Murdered in cold blood dramatized, Pictures of me in my final state, You know mama cried,… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of… — Leslie Banks Copy Share Image
What we were also trying to do is vary the tone slightly across the season of Black Mirror, because there are six… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
All these questions about do you want to be king? It's not a question of wanting to be, it's something I was… — Prince William Copy Share Image
I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story,… — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
If you try to turn me against Lissa one more time the stories are going to be about you bleeding because I'll… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
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