Most of the time, the songs have jokes in them, little sarcastic things, or purposely kitsch or something. So that's going along… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
I think this [ statement that Donald Trump would fight for LGBTQ people] is not just a story of the media spinning… — Margaret Hoover Copy Share Image
If you go into a comic book store, there are tons of Star Wars stories on the stand. There are lots of… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
Ahem. Dear Jesus," Taylor intoned more fervently. "We just want to thank you for gettin' us here safe ---" There was a… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I do all the things that singer-songwriters do. I introduce the songs, I have a story to tell about everything all the… — India.Arie Copy Share Image
Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Only in the context of the great encounter with Jesus can a real authentic struggle take place. The encounter with Christ does… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Eyes Tell Stories But do they know how to craft fiction? Do they know how to spin lies? His eyes swear forever,… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“When a story gets wedged in your head and refuses to go away, when it keeps coming back, again and again, despite… — Nidhie Sharma Copy Share Image
We're Catholics before we're Democrats. We're Catholics before we're Republicans. We're even Catholics before we're Americans, because we know that God has… — Charles J. Chaput Copy Share Image
Books are a really fun way to get yourself in a certain mindset or mood as an actress. Also, the way people… — Emma Roberts Copy Share Image
First of all, computer animation is certainly a tremendous and viable medium today. But the warmth and personality derived from 2-D animation,… — Richard Sherman Copy Share Image
Now an audience of more than 1 billion people is only a click away from every voice online, and remarkable stories and… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
It's the obvious thing to say but artists want to be able to tell all kinds of stories and tear down every… — Christian Slater Copy Share Image
We are not wise enough, pure enough, or strong enough to aim and sustain such a single motive over a lifetime. That… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
Some stories, she’d say, the more you tell them, the faster you use them up. Those kind, the drama burns off, and… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Professional football in America is a special game, a unique game ... It is a rare game. The men who play it… — John Facenda Copy Share Image
When we're in the story, when we're part of it, we can't know the outcome. It's only later that we think we… — James Robertson Copy Share Image
When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product.… — Carson Daly Copy Share Image
It’s interesting that in the Bible, in the book of Ecclesiastes, the only practical advice given about living a meaningful life is… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour, could make all the difference. So much hanging… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The campaign for the White House is heating up with John Kerry taking heat for throwing his Vietnam medals away, getting a… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Sometimes the music just has to tell the story without you trying to tell the story. It depends on the type of… — Tyga Copy Share Image
The stories that have had the deepest impact on me and one of the reasons I was excited to finally get to… — Steven Curtis Chapman Copy Share Image
We are accustomed to repeating the cliché, and to believing, that 'our most precious resource is our children.' But we have plenty… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
When we love others, we naturally want to talk about them, we want to show them off, like emotional trophies. We invest… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Dogwalker is a book of fiction, with characters based on the types of people who truly exist in the world. I've seen… — Arthur Bradford Copy Share Image
If I sing "you broke my heart, you left me flat," everyone knows exactly what that means - they know the story.… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
The journey homewards. Coming home. That's what it's all about. The journey to the coming of the Kingdom. That's probably the chief… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Storytelling, you know, has a real function. The process of the storytelling is itself a healing process, partly because you have someone… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
All poets and story tellers alive today make a single brotherhood; they are engaged in a single work, picturing our human life.… — Haniel Long Copy Share Image
Considering that "literary fiction" is a sub-genre that's not quite the same as "literature," either, it follows that the short, semi-humorous bits… — Lee Klein Copy Share Image
While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the… — Ann Beattie Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that they lived pretty much the same sort of life in the Homeric age, for men have always… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
People see their own lives as stories; a lifelong story with a single hero or heroine... much contemporary unhappiness is due to… — Guy Claxton Copy Share Image
Rian Johnson's 'Looper' is inventive, entertaining, and thought-provoking in every way a movie can be. It is in fact the kind of… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
“I am going to tell a story now, and though I've made a life out of writing words, this is the first… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
I think it would be self-indulgent to go, "Oh, I'm going to make this character different by giving him a quirk of… — David Tennant Copy Share Image
Allow me now to return to the cottagers, whose story excited in me such various feelings of indignation, delight, and wonder, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A good piece of fiction, in my view, does not offer solutions. Good stories deal with our moral struggles, our uncertainties, our… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image