My father's family didn't really know much about our ancestry. I mean, they had the story that I think a lot of… — Alex Wagner Copy Share Image
This thing called chemistry, which I can't define and wouldn't know how to, either works or it doesn't. Sometimes a love story… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
I actually like older horror movies more than newer ones because when I'm watching newer ones, like 'Chucky' or 'Saw' or whatever,… — Emily Alyn Lind Copy Share Image
I decided to take my foot off the pedal with all the detail. I'm sure after 'Animalia' and 'The Eleventh Hour,' readers… — Graeme Base Copy Share Image
A picture story is a sequence of images combined with text in such a way that pictures and words reinforce each other.… — Arthur Rothstein Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, my favorite movies were the George Pal version of 'War Of The Worlds,' 'Them,' and 'Invasion of… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
“We have, each of us, a life-story, an inner narrative — whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives. It might be said… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
This is the story that I've grown up with in this country, Black protest is always seen as violent. In fact, Black… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
“With respect to the books of the New Testament, particularly such parts as tell us of the resurrection and ascension of Christ,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When 'Quadrophenia' came out, I turned on to that because of the whole story with it, and there were just some really… — Ann Wilson Copy Share Image
It seems disrespectful to my parents who left... to hear their story over and over again which always ends with... 'and I'll… — Jennine Capó Crucet Copy Share Image
'The 5th Wave' is sci-fi, but I tried very hard to ground the story in very human terms and in those universal… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“Just imagine the existence of a man - let us call him A - who has left youth far behind, and of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“As the video game designer and writer James Wallis puts it, “Human beings like stories. Our brains have a natural affinity not… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
You have to decide what kind of story you're going to tell. For instance I would argue a movie like 'Toy Story… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
The U.S. Army records alone for World War II weigh 17,000 tons, and even the best historians have not done more than… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
My story wasn't one of those cliched stories of being an ugly duckling, I had a pretty good time at school. But… — Erin O'Connor Copy Share Image
I read a zombie story, and I have nightmares for days. But my youngest sister loves zombie stories. So when she insisted… — Julie Ann Dawson Copy Share Image
'Blacks were too scared to do anything, but they came out to greet James Meredith': That would have been the story in… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
We went bankrupt one time and lost everything. When I tell that story at my Women's Leadership LIVE conferences, people are shocked.… — Linda McMahon Copy Share Image
“Australian Aborigines say that the big stories — the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
To me, 'Blue Like Jazz' is a quintessential American story. So many people are just like Don - raised Christian and go… — Marshall Allman Copy Share Image
One of the main reasons I wanted to work on 'World War Z' was because I'm a huge fan of the book,… — Marc Forster Copy Share Image
A writer of story books! What kind of business in life-what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Midnight Mass' is kind of my baby; I've been working on that for six years. I started writing it while 'Oculus' was… — Mike Flanagan Copy Share Image
My God, do we have some of the most amazing people. You won't find stories like ours. You almost feel like, if… — Rashida Tlaib Copy Share Image
“A short story is not a portrayal of life. When life becomes disconsolate and the fear for the unknown seeps through the… — Anu Lal Copy Share Image
“This is a story about that kind of love. The kind that ignites fast, burns bright, and brands itself into your memory,… — Paige Blaze Copy Share Image
“Just as I had done, my father sleeps off and on for days. Sometimes I sit by the bed in Marta's house… — Celia Mcmahon Copy Share Image
It absolutely helped - to write the father in both 'Juicy' and 'Beasts,' I had to see the whole story from his… — Lucy Alibar Copy Share Image
I don't teach literature from my perspective as 'Joyce Carol Oates.' I try to teach fiction from the perspective of each writer.… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I always have a notebook with me, I eavesdrop; I write down what people say. It's very rare that one of those… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I changed my writing style deliberately. My first two novels were written in a very self-consciously literary way. After I embraced gay… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Most academic historians accept that historians' own circumstances demand that they tell the story in a particular way, of course. While people… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
The issues that people have in developing their shows tend to be the same, which have to do with how to structure… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
It's a director's job to tell a story and he's very well versed in telling stories with a bit of comedy in… — Cuba Gooding, Jr Copy Share Image
“The difference between real life and a story is that life has significance , while a story must have meaning . The… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
A great benefit of having parents in the same profession is if I do have a terrible audition story, I can call… — Zoe Perry Copy Share Image
Ralph Lauren has always had a story. At first, my father told the story just through his designs. Now we're constantly looking… — David Lauren Copy Share Image
