Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.

C. S. Lewis

History is a story written by the finger of God.

Cecelia Ahern

They say a story loses something with each telling.

Cecelia Ahern

Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.

Bill Bryson

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

Trinny Woodall

I don't have a problem with the stories saying I'm skinny at all.

Jocelyn Moorhouse

I am interested in stories that concern women.

Paul Slavin

There are stories that you don't have to be first on.

Candace Bushnell

I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories that I would do were precursors to 'Sex and the City.'

Bebe Neuwirth

One of the things that's great about doing a show over and over again... is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time... to continue to mine the material and find new things.

Beck

I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I saw you, and I wanted to be close to you. I wanted you to let me in. I wanted to know you in a way no one else did. I wanted you, all of you.

Billy Corgan

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.

Bill Shankly

Train the right way. Help each other. It's a form of socialism without the politics.

C. S. Lewis

If you haven't met Satan recently, you are probably going his way!

Cecil Rhodes

Pure philanthropy is very well in its way but philanthropy plus five percent is a good deal better.

Cecelia Ahern

Life has a way of getting what it wants when it really knows what it wants.

Carrie Fisher

My extroversion is a way of managing my introversion.

Brittany Snow

My greatest accomplishment is receiving my role on 'Guiding Light.'

Sophia Amoruso

Don't act like you've arrived when you're just receiving the invitation.

Coventry Patmore

Ask abundantly, for the measure of your asking shall be that of your receiving.

Debbie Reynolds

I gave it all that I had, and it's gratifying that others seem to be receiving it so well.

Jan Egeland

Somaliland and Somalia at large have been receiving now hundreds of thousands of returnees that they had to accommodate with very small resources.

Audrey Hepburn

It always boils down to the same thing - not only receiving love, but desperately needing to give it.

Austan Goolsbee

If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they're receiving income through what is something like a tax loophole so that it's not counting as corporate income, that is what this is counting as a small business.

Cass Canfield

A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage.

Donald Miller

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.