Top 1200 Detective Story Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Telling Phil Hellmuth a bad beat story, is like telling Joan Rivers a Botox Story

We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it's a sad story, as if we didn't know it's a sad story. There isn't a single cool newsreader.

When writing, I'm not thinking about war, even if I'm writing about it. I'm thinking about sentences, rhythm and story. So the focus, when I'm working, even if it's on a story that takes place at war, is not on bombs or bullets. It's on the story.

1921' is a fantastic love story about people who are studying music. It has a fair leaning towards classic love story.

Writing a short story is a little like walking into a dark room, finding a light and turning it on. The light is the end of the story.

If as a child I had written a story, the best story that I could imagine, I would have written as indeed is happening to me.

Truth can arrive within the story and ride latent - a bit incognito - within a story, and people are more prone to receive it.

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else's story.

With 'Noontide Toll', I wanted to cater to a single story but also collectively more than a single story.

If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.

If you lead a simple life, and that story is written, then that story will not satisfy. It needs an angle. Suppose there is no angle?

The true story is vicious and multiple and untrue after all. Why do you need it? Don’t ever ask for the true story.

Cinema is a director's medium; it's his story and his vision. If it's a good story, people will connect to it.

It's like, if you have a story that's already great, then the thing that we can shift is how we're telling that story, how we're presenting it to the world.

Tell a story! Don't try to impress your reader with style or vocabulary or neatly turned phrases. Tell the story first!

From the very beginning Europe has been not only a success story but also a story of success achieved by learning.

The strength of a story is that it stays with people and it gives an opportunity for that story to connect with people where the Holy Spirit intends for it to do so.

Until recently we’ve only been able to speculate about story's persuasive effects. But over the last several decades psychology has begun a serious study of how story affects the human mind. Results repeatedly show that our attitudes, fears, hopes, and values are strongly influenced by story. In fact, fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than writing that is specifically designed to persuade through argument and evidence.

With watercolour, you can't cover up the marks. There's the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might tell another story as well.

But me contradicting a news story is not going to make my words fact. It will just create a new news story.

I am a story-teller working with a craft. My job is to use my craft - which is a different thing to my race - and tell a story well.

That was one of the key things - when you asked the story about the writing of the story - one of the things we wanted to make sure was that it grew out of.

America was built by immigrants. Immigrants come here for work - to contribute and get to a better place. That's my story. It's a story of hope.

It's always a long goddamn story. Every time you ask anyone anything really important, it's a long story.

Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story.

My clothes have a story. They have an identity. They have a character and a purpose. That's why they become classics. Because they keep on telling a story. They are still telling it.

Each of the 'Toy Story's are telling an emotional story, but they're comedic. They're so successful creatively in terms of the stories they're telling. And they're pretty grounded.

When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story.

The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are doing... what they all went through. It's not just a song, see?

A good story, a story resonant and remarkable, can be remade endlessly to tell new sides of itself for new generations of readers.

I always think first about the nature of the story. When I had the idea for 'The Namesake,' I felt that it had to be a novel - it couldn't work as a story.

The American story is a story of immigration. I would be the last person who would say immigrants are not important to America.

The story line of the Bible is the story line of God taking the initiative in seeking out a people who are His very own.

I was too lazy to start a whole new story, so I just stuck a princess into the story I was working on... and The Princess Diaries was born!

It was very fortuitous that the show [True Detective] actually spans seventeen years - so as I was getting older on the show, I was gaining weight. When I'm playing fifty, I'm ten pounds heavier! I don't know if they thought maybe I was method? But it actually worked to my benefit.

From the very beginning, Europe has been not only a success story but also a story of success achieved by learning.

The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.

The story of 'Libra Scale,' the storyline was created first, and then the music was created around the story line.

You have to tell a good story first. If it's a good story, people will be interested. It doesn't matter about the content.

Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.

It is much easier to be flexible about where a story begins than it ever was for me to change my mind about where and how a story ended.

I don't have the story finished and ready when we start work on a film. I usually don't have the time. So the story develops when I start drawing storyboards. I never know where the story will go but I just keeping working on the film as it develops. It's a dangerous way to make an animation film and I would like it to be different, but unfortunately, that's the way I work and everyone else is kind of forced to subject themselves to it.

We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates.

I think a story is an attention grabber. I think it's a truth conveyor. Those are two great features of a good story.

No victim wants their record, or their minor story to be told. Every victim should have the right to tell their own story.

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.

Creating is one thing; telling the story is one thing. I see myself more as a storyteller than a story creator.

Do not start a story unless you have an ending in mind. You can change the story's ending if you wish, but you should always have a destination.

The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all people should experience.

For every man with a baseball story - a memory of a moment at the plate or in the field - there is a woman with a couldn't-play-baseball story.

Once you know the end of the story, every part of the story contains that end, and is only a way of reaching it.

All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

I just wanted to tell the story of a bunch of musicians who had never had their story told before. There's no preaching or theorizing.

I think it's a great story, the story of Babel. I think anyone can direct it as an analogy for a lot of different situations.

If the story is insensitive to a person and is not nuanced enough, that's a story I don't want to be a part of. Otherwise there is no other character that I don't want to play.

Look directly into every mirror. Realize our reflection is the first sentence to a story, and our story starts: We were here.

The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else’s story.

I keep a journal, like many writers do. It helps in writing a story, as you can use an incident from the journal and put in your story.

Your brain forms a story and, if you're lucky, there's a line where the story takes over the brain. You don't even know what you have.