Top 100 Stories Behind Sayings
#1. 'Planet Earth' was such an extraordinary series and the 'Making Of' ... is fascinating: the creatures and stories behind the camera are just as fascinating as those in front. It's a bit of a dream come true to be a part of the team in some small way.
Dan Stevens
#2. Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.
Louis L'Amour
#3. It is useless to put news agency stories behind the paid curtain because they are available in thousands of other places that will be free.
Robert G. Picard
#4. I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.
Laura Esquivel
#5. When you work behind the ropes, you know the heartbreaking stories behind their smiles; you see the pins and nauseating amount of hair products that glaze their heads; and you see the wedges (even flats) under their eternally beaded gowns.
Kath C. Eustaquio-Derla
#6. The way they knew that Bone Gap had gaps just wide enough for people to slip through, or slip away, leaving only their stories behind.
Laura Ruby
#7. The Memorial Finder covers the gap. It tells you the specific panel and number where you can find an individual but begins to reveal the connections between the names themselves. As you move around the site itself, a smartphone app will reveal adjacencies as well as the stories behind the names.
Jake Barton
#8. You know, sex is actually not so original as the way people love or the stories behind each relationship, which is what you remember. Sex is sex in the end.
Jane Campion
#9. If we can forgive what's been done to us ...
If we can forgive what we've done to others ... If we can leave all of our stories behind. Our being villains or victims. Only then can we maybe rescue the world.
Chuck Palahniuk
#10. Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the history of the written word have given them substance, given them life.
And so we readers walk, and dream, and imagine, in the city where imagination found its great home.
Anna Quindlen
#11. I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.
Harlan Coben
#12. I would love to document the Roots; I think they have an interesting story. I have a curiosity about them. Their musicality and their live performances I think would be great, and I have a feeling that there are stories behind each one of them.
Michael Rapaport
#13. All single people are not really single
They all have untold stories behind the scene.
Ahmed Ali Anjum
#14. I think that baseball as a whole, I am a huge romantic when it comes to the history and the stats and the numbers the stories behind it, so I would consider myself a pretty big fan.
Graham Elliot
#15. I found that while it was interesting to travel around and take the photographs, I would find that I was more interested in the stories behind the photographs. I was more interested in narrative.
Joshua Marston
#16. Mafia landmarks are found everywhere in beautiful Sicily, an unfortunate byproduct of the island's tragic history. By mapping theses strange sites and telling the amazing stories behind them, I hope to remind readers that the Mafia is not a romantic relic of the past.
Carl Russo
#17. Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#18. Who are the executives, and what are the stories that are being released? Not just in movie theaters but online. When you watch Master of None, you're like, yes, this is real life to me. These are refreshing types of stories.
Daniel Radcliffe
#19. Having exhausted every possibility at the moment when he was coming full circle, Antonino realised that photographing photographs was the only course that he had left - or, rather, the true course he had obscurely been seeking all this time. (Last line of the story The Adventure of a Photographer )
Italo Calvino
#20. Humans don't leap buildings. Stuntmen with harnesses do. And won't my crashing eight stories to the ground be detrimental to the mission? The dark elves will swarm me and take me hostage instantly."
"That might be true, but you're not going to fall," he said.
Amanda Carlson
#21. Each Fable is inspired by some true stories which doesn't have an happy ending, unlike the Fable.
Neetesh Dixit
#22. Every time a story about me appears in a newspaper, I am injured professionally.
Norman Mailer
#23. There are no big stories left, just paths through the clutter and the inevitable soft landing.
Ivan Vladislavic
#24. Nothing in the voice of the cicada intimates how soon it will die.
J.D. Salinger
#25. Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters.
Umberto Eco
#26. The last story: God is everything, God is good.
Byron Katie
#27. Can I ask what you're reading?" ... She turned the book so the cover faced me. Wuthering Heights. "Have you read it?" She said. I nodded. I could feel the pulsating beat of my heart behind my eyes. "It's a sad story." "Sad stories make good books," She said. "They do.
Khaled Hosseini
#28. My goal is not to have everlasting fame, it is simply to write the stories that are asking me to write them and to share them with the people that want to hear them.
Elizabeth Hernandez
#29. Loving someone who can't love themselves is like pouring water into a bowl with a hole in the bottom. It can never stay filled.
Brownell Landrum
#30. Storytelling explores the problem with people. Stories without conflict are bad stories that no one repeats. Conflict describes the reality of human life and interaction with others. The resolution of the conflict in which everyone lives happily ever after reflects the human yearning for hope.
Harry Lee Poe
#31. I have always thought that if you can give viewers the sense of being there a story can be very compelling.
Chris Hegedus
#32. In general, I feel so much of pop culture is set in the generic big city, particularly comics. I feel like there are so many other stories to tell.
Jeff Lemire
#33. You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story.
Marian Keyes
#34. If the story's there for it, if there's a reason for it, then I'm all for it. But if you throw in a barbed wire match just to do a barbed wire match, then it makes no sense to me.
CM Punk
#35. I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner party conversations and some even crawl out of the dusty remote recesses of my imagination.
Lynn Nottage
#36. But that's what we all are-just stories. We only exist by how people remember us, by the stories we make of our lives. Without the stories, we'd just fade away.
Charles De Lint
#37. All sorts of people told me their stories. Then they left, never to return, as if I were no more than a bridge they were clattering across.
Haruki Murakami
#38. When you banish me, you who are maryadapurushottham will be writing a law which will render innocent women of coming generations homeless and destitute.
Gita V. Reddy
#39. I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself.
Robert Stack
#40. Someday an opportunity will come. Think about Harry Potter. His life is terrible, but then a letter arrives, he gets on a train, and everything is different for him afterward. Better. Magical."
"That's just a story."
"So are we- we're stories too.
Matthew Quick
#41. This love beyond time and space, it knows only it's own truth. Immortalis Amor, Darkest Secrets
Dominique Vandorien
#42. I've been astounded to discover how good to their teams and crew that Marvel are. They're so collaborative, so smart with their stories. They have rich, dynamic characters which are so much fun to play.
Evangeline Lilly
#43. If the stories of our faith are such that you're too young to remember them, then you are not old enough to preach.
Fred B. Craddock
#44. The thing is that Warcraft has so much story available to it. For the fans, there are some key stories they really want to see on screen. I won't be doing those.
Duncan Jones
#45. The city has millions of stories that I don't know. Never did and never will.
John Joseph Adams
#47. What counts in a good story is the person inside. Keep it simple.
Paulo Coelho
#48. So we face our final hours ... and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the end of all our stories.
Tad Williams
#49. 4: Stories let us lie to ourselves. And those lies satisfy our desires.
Seth Godin
#50. I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose.
P.G. Wodehouse
#51. My husband is old-fashioned and kind, he does the greatest Sinatra impression, and I'd never have written anything if he hadn't read all those bedtime stories and unloaded the dishwasher while I slaved over chapters.
Allison Pearson
#52. Risk is important to me as a writer, reader, and editor. I love stories that take a premise or style that seems unlikely to succeed, whose first paragraphs risk a raised eyebrow or groan, and whose last paragraphs are then all that much sweeter a triumph. Basically, I love being proved wrong.
Caitlin Horrocks
#53. You'd think God would come right out and tell us what to do in the Bible, but He doesn't. He mostly tells stories, and He rarely stops the story to say what the point is. He just lets the characters and conflict hang in the air like smoke.
Donald Miller
#54. The most intoxicating thing about being an actor is to surrender to a story that you never would have come up with.
Brit Marling
#55. Become the director, producer, choreographer of your own story
Deepak Chopra
#56. I always wanted to tell stories and act.
Eli Wallach
#58. Only meaning can make a difference and we all know there's no meaning. All stories express a desire for meaning, not meaning itself. Therefore any difference knowing the story makes is a delusion.
Glen Duncan
#59. Melodrama is one of the most stunning art forms. These are stories where the emotions are big, and the situations are big, and the artists believe in the situation dramatically. There's no irony or distance.
James Gray
#60. The marvelous thing about 'Doctor Who' is that it tells stories that no one else can tell.
Russell T. Davies
#61. This world is not enough, but it will have to do. You can either hold on or let go.
Margaret Atwood
#62. Australian Aborigines say that the big stories - the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the meaning of your life - are forever stalking the right teller, sniffing and tracking like predators hunting their prey in the bush.
Robert Moss
#63. A lot of stories about me getting into trouble start with a girl.
Kelley Armstrong
#64. When you want to say something very important, tell it with a short sentence! There is no time for long stories!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#65. Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't think so. Those stories don't interest me that much as a general thing.
Jim Woodring
#66. It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time.
Tobias Wolff
#67. My friends and family have always been extremely supportive, but the support I've received from fans has been so overwhelming. I love hearing all of their 'Fight Song' stories; I have been so inspired by so many of them.
Rachel Platten
#68. Of all the love stories ever published, I have - realistically - read very few.
Richard Flanagan
#69. Accept nothing. Challenge everything.
A.D. Posey
#70. Many stories are invented about me - too many stories; almost everyone uses me, and I'd say about 0.01 percent of the gossip is true.
Mario Balotelli
#71. In this age of video games and cell phones, there must still be a place for knots, tree houses, and stories of incredible courage.
Conn Iggulden
#72. There are others. There will be others. Other heroes, other heroines. Other prophecies to fulfill, other adversaries to despise. There will be stories told and forgotten, and reinvented anew until one day, perhaps, the oldest are remembered, and the beginning may end, and the ending begin.
Jacqueline Carey
#73. I feel like these characters, these places, these beings and plots, and even these inanimate objects are counting on me for survival. It's my responsibility to reveal them to the world, to show my readers the names of these things, to show them their histories and stories.
Nicholas Trandahl
#74. Grief is a little like being in a fresh snowfall. A light, cold curtain falls between you and the rest of the world.
Elise Forier Edie
#75. Some people become an integral part of our lives; others are ships that pass in the night. Short stories, in fact. My
Ruskin Bond
#76. I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
Hedy Lamarr
#77. I like stories where people have to face some big demons internally. It always seems to be an element of horror, because it's pretty scary to have to face yourself and the things you're most worried about: your own abilities and your own capabilities and your own level of competence in being a hero.
Scott Snyder
#78. There is no such thing as a boring person: everyone has stories and insights worth sharing. While on the road, we let our phones or laptops take up our attention. By doing that, we might miss out on the chance to learn and absorb ideas and inspiration from an unexpected source: our fellow travelers.
Richard Branson
#79. There are some stories that you don't tell aloud, that you make up and tell silently to yourself.
Susan Fletcher
#80. Yes, I'm often reminded of her, and in one of my array of pockets, I have kept her story to retell. It is one of the small legion I carry, each one extraordinary in its own right. Each one an attempt - an immense leap of an attempt - to prove to me that you, and your human existence, are worth it.
Markus Zusak
#81. Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.
Julia Roberts
#82. What is crucial is the provision of opportunities for telling all the diverse stories, for interpreting membership as well as ethnicity, for making inescapable the braids of experience woven into the fabric of America's plurality.
Maxine Greene
#83. David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with David and her to read stories for the anthology.
Terry Southern
#85. And I? I drink, I burn, I gather dreams.
And sometimes I tell a story. Because Promethea asks me for a bowl of words before she goes to sleep.
Helene Cixous
#86. Chance could share shit like that with his brother. Chance shared everything with his brother. To him, Quinn was some sort of superhero who occasionally got knee-walking drunk, told great stories, could crack a joke, and pissed him off from time to time.
Alex Morgan
#87. I loved putting on stories as plays when I was just six. I was the director, the actress and the set designer; I cast my girlfriends in parts, and I suggested to the local kindergarten teachers that we do free performances for the children.
Mili Avital
#88. I was born at six months, and I weighed 900 grams [less than two pounds]. I have a very heroic birth story.
Etgar Keret
#89. Basically for me a story can be anything. Anything you tell me, anything I read in the newspaper, in any mode. I don't have any restrictions.
T.C. Boyle
#90. I think story-telling is innate in human beings, it's something that we've done since we scrawled across cave walls.
Cameron Diaz
#91. Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime.
Matt Taibbi
#92. Sponsored stories are not a great way to monetize mobile traffic. The phone is way more of a publishing tool than a reading tool. The attention users pay to the streams on mobile is far less than on the desktop.
Keith Teare
#93. It's not so much that I mind listening to her stories. Everybody likes to have an audience - that's why most people have kids, isn't it?
Robin Epstein
#94. The sea was my first home ... Now that I had nowhere else to go, this was the last place I felt safe.
Jennifer Silverwood
#95. Ronald Reagan has a story for every occasion. Bill Clinton has an excuse for every occasion.
Fred Barnes
#96. My favorite kinds of stories are the ones that have these big crazy genre hijinks and then a real honest, meaty, emotional story where we're watching a character grapple with some real things.
Greg Pak
#97. And so my story begins, like so many stories, with a woman
Daniel Defoe
#98. It's only after the fact that we trace the lines, join dots between things, skip over anything that doesn't fit. We make stories to account for everything that's happened. It's nice to think the world makes sense. It's nice to think that you make sense. But sometimes things just happen.
Kirsty Logan
#99. You can only succeed. You cannot fail. Failure is impossible; it is an illusion. Nothing is a failure. Nothing. Everything moves the human story, and hence the process of evolution, forward. Everything advances you on your journey.
Neale Donald Walsch
#100. Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.
Gilda Radner
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