The story she had told me was possible, but it was not believable. — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
If you want to dispossess a people, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story and to start with… — Mourid Barghouti Copy Share Image
Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
“I had come to believe that there was something sacred in telling stories and telling them true.” — Kirby Larson Copy Share Image
Only cool people care about the origin stories of why they like something, and I'm not cool. — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that. — Liya Kebede Copy Share Image
The approach to "building" a story with words and phrases is no different than "building" a painting with brushes and pigments. — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
It's true that I'm drawn to unusual stories. Normal roles don't really attract me. — Eva Green Copy Share Image
Even though Doctor Strange is an established character, when you're doing an origin story there's a lot of room for manoeuvre. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
It was easy to believe, between lessons on Shakespeare and Dickens and Austen, that all of the great stories had already been… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Just the same as I mix each track to connect them together to build a story, it's the same with the message,… — Robert Hood Copy Share Image
I feel like in telling stories, there are the things the audience thinks are important, and then there are the things that… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
The biggest regret I have about 'Rubicon' is that we didn't end it. Sometimes you do these shows and you don't have… — James Badge Dale Copy Share Image
You know, I love plays. I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff.… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
There are hundreds of stories I've heard from black women from my generation, generations before me, and the next, that have never… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
When we remember something, we're taking bits and pieces of experience - sometimes from different times and places - and bringing it… — Elizabeth Loftus Copy Share Image
Giving feels good, but it's also good for the bottom line. Charity is a viable growth strategy for a lot of companies.… — Blake Mycoskie Copy Share Image
I think because it is a very well-saturated story,episode of Justified in Hannibal, and we've all heard it in some frame of… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
It's only a story, you say. So it is, and the rest of life with it - creation story, love story, horror,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I am a man, and men are animals who tell stories. This is a gift from God, who spoke our species into… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
My childhood was spent with dogs, and I work with dogs surrounding me. This relationship is hardly unique - man-and-dog stories date… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
The one joy that has kept me going through life has been the fact that stories unite us. To see you as… — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
I came first to America in 1977 at the invitation of a man who wanted to make my life story into a… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
People are interested if you tell stories well and relevantly. — Christiane Amanpour Copy Share Image
