I'm telling the story, and if I can't tell the story, I'm not going to sing it. And if I don't agree… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
I could name you a dozen superheroes whose powers I'd like to have. But if I could have any power in the… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
I get a lot of criticism for telling founders to focus first on making something great, instead of worrying about how to… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
I am not interested only in telling a story, but I want to tell it my way. I don't want my accent,… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I am excited about getting back to what I do best and what my audience likes best, I am writing new jokes… — Jackie Mason Copy Share Image
I think it's always a challenge when you're telling a story that people know. But hopefully, good storytelling - well, there's two… — Kimberly Peirce Copy Share Image
When you look at the calculation, it's amazing that every time you try to prove or disprove time travel, you've pushed Einstein's… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Acting is rare. You can be rehearsing Ibsen with Sir Richard Eyre and suddenly he has to take a call on his… — Jamie Sives Copy Share Image
Telling my grandchildren stories of my growing up is some of our favorite times spent together. They want to know what it… — Lidia Bastianich Copy Share Image
I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by... worried... about religion. I remember going to… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others.… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
The songs sort of come out spontaneously and it'll take me awhile to figure out what exactly is happening lyrically, what kind… — Jeff Mangum Copy Share Image
I suppose you want me to say I'm at parties all the time and am secretly going out with Tom Cruise, but… — Miranda Hart Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, I understand what Petra has always been trying to tell me. The whole time she was mumbling her litany of stories,… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
You break up, and you say something pathetic, or you don't even speak at all when someone's telling you they don't love… — Gin Wigmore Copy Share Image
'Macbeth' was the first play I ever read. In fact, I remember my brother Tom, who is six years older than me,… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
I was always storytelling, since I was a child. I remember myself at 10 years old telling stories to my sisters and… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
So you can say, 'Get Big Government out of here, and don't tell me what to eat,' but when kids are going… — Tom Colicchio Copy Share Image
One thing that I'm predicting is that there will be a vigorous and futile defense of suburbia and all its entitlements, no… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
There's a fundamental difference between how often men remember to say 'I love you' and how often women want to hear 'I… — Brett Young Copy Share Image
Most critics of gender division are women, and they're worried about girls and the roles presented for them by gendered entertainments. They… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
I went up on stage, and said, "Why did the chicken cross the road? To check out the chicks." I was a… — Gabriel Iglesias Copy Share Image
Every day, when my feet hit the ground, I have a story that I'm telling myself that I choose to make a… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
“My throat closes against the words I can't swallow, not one more time. Because it's not true, what they're telling me--what they've… — Nicole Hardy Copy Share Image
This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up. My mother… — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
At the risk of sounding like that old guy in 'Gran Torino' telling those 'young punks' to 'get off my lawn,' it's… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, as much as I am gullible, I also hate lying. I tend to tell the truth a lot... lying just isn't… — Monica Raymund Copy Share Image
“Gee-word?" "Gods. What were you doin' the day they handed out brains, boy, anyway?" "Someone was telling a story about stealing a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
People can see themselves in a story much easier than they can see themselves in a hypothetical situation that a brand might… — Lewis Howes Copy Share Image
Some bloke came up to me in Tesco a couple of years ago at 11:30 pm and said: 'Excuse me, would you… — Richard Griffiths Copy Share Image
I was a pitcher, and my dad played in college. The hardest day of my life was telling him I was going… — Jordan Spieth Copy Share Image
Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
In high school, sometimes you just can't help who you have a crush on and who you fall for! If you fall… — Jillian Rose Reed Copy Share Image
I think that one of Tim's great qualities and abilities is in what seems like a thumbnail sketch to get something quite… — Albert Finney Copy Share Image
I would prefer it if people thought that I didn't work hard, that I just played the guitar for three minutes a… — Julian Casablancas Copy Share Image
I'm not really one who goes telling people things. I'm quite a reserved character and I keep a lot of things to… — Michael Carrick Copy Share Image
