Backstory Ideas Quotes

#1. I won't bet $100 against house odds between now and the grave.

Charlie Munger

#2. I find that a lot of my best character stuff and ideas come unwittingly from novels. In scripts, it's a lot about the outward signs of whatever's happening - you have the end result. Whereas in a novel you get a buildup of the whys and wherefores, and you're let into the backstory.

Alison Pill

#3. For nature is good, an man is 'by nature' good; it is civilization which ruins him

Jostein Gaarder

#4. We'll be back!" he snarled.
It was really Ari's voice.
Boy, you just can't kill people like you used to," said Fang

James Patterson

#5. To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.

Bruce Lee

#6. Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

Harrison Ford

#7. All that you need in order to have total happiness, fulfillment, and love in your life you already have right now, whoever you are, wherever you are.

Wayne Dyer

#8. The glance embroiders in joy, knits in pain, and sews in boredom.
When indifferent, the eye takes stills, when interested, movies.
Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

Malcolm De Chazal

#9. In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#10. I like dogs, I just don't choose to spend time with them.

Taron Egerton

#11. White space is to be regarded as an active element, not a passive background.

Jan Tschichold

#12. Little in American culture, politics, or business encourages the institutionalization of a collective employee voice.

Nelson Lichtenstein

#13. Some of the people here want to blame genetic damage for everything," he says. "It's easier for them to accept than the truth, which is that they can't know everything about people and why they act the way they do.

Veronica Roth

#14. I just saw dialogue, in the audition, and had no backstory. I was like, "I'm just going to be myself because I have no idea who this is or where he's coming from." The typical questions that actors have to ask themselves were very hard. I had to imagine, a little bit, and just made it work.

Giles Matthey

#15. Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.

Muhammad Ali