Lewis Carroll Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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You put anyone in the outfit, and they look like Gandalf. Not that clever.
Ian Mckellen -
I've always loved massive worlds, whether in fantasy or science fiction. I like the idea of making my own rules as well as utilizing everything that I love or inspires me. It's very freeing to know you can write a story that can be as big as your own imagination.
Victoria Aveyard -
A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
Irving Thalberg -
A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go that way, now it's going to go that way. It has to do that. If it's predictable, it's just boring.
Fede Alvarez -
Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
Ira Glass -
It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.
Daisy Berkowitz
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There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited.
Aaron Sorkin -
My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
Carl Hiaasen -
I worked in the story department for years on 'Cars' and 'Toy Story 3.'
Dan Scanlon -
A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.
Aaron Sorkin -
I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.
Ed Bradley -
Everybody has a Bill Murray story. He just punishes people for reasons they can't figure out.
Harold Ramis
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I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.
Rainbow Rowell -
Steampunk is not a group of children in a classroom, sitting quietly while the teacher reads a story; it's the kids at recess, playing a wild, endless game of pretend.
Kaja Foglio -
Mysteries include so many things: the noir novel, espionage novel, private eye novels, thrillers, police procedurals. But the pure detective story is where there's a detective and a criminal who's committed a murder and leaves clues for the detective and the careful reader to find.
Otto Penzler -
There are so many ways to tell a story. With multiplatform books, we are reimagining what literacy can be.
Patrick Carman -
DNA is a code of four letters; proteins are made up of amino acids which come in 20 forms. So the ribosome is a very clever machine that reads one language and operates in another.
Ada Yonath -
We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next.
Laura Innes
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Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.
Edmond de Goncourt -
I have an older brother who is an actor as well.
Mads Mikkelsen -
Allah says in the Qur'an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It's who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque - and I'm a basketball player with money and prestige - if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He's better than me. It's about knowledge.
Hakeem Olajuwon -
Regular panelists on shows can be terrifying. They own that space, and many guest comics suspect they are favoured in the edit, while their own hilarious jokes end up being ejected into the ether.
Jo Brand -
Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been deceived... The beauties of the Parthenon, Venuses, Nymphs, Narcissuses are so many lies. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon.
Pablo Picasso -
Every story has a moral you just need to be clever enough to find it - the Dutchess
Lewis Carroll