Top 1200 Funny Story Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

You can't tell the story of the women's movement through the story of one woman.

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

In Mosca’s experience, a ‘long story’ was always a short story someone did not want to tell.

Criticism changes with the fashion of the time. A story is always a story.

Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.

I know from experience that I make the best decisions when I'm into the story and inspired by the story, not when I'm sitting there trying to plot.

I write a story in my head. I see the story like a movie.

WORK ON YOUR STORY! He/she who has the best story wins! In life! In business! The White House!

I probably would never be able to direct a comedy because I'm not that funny. I don't have that funny bone in me, so it wouldn't be a natural fit. But I love the world of science fiction, and I love the world of technology and science too.

Nowadays they have 12 directors and 15 producers and 30 writers. And all the writers want their lines said a certain way-which isn't necessarily funny. I mean the lines aren't necessarily so funny to begin with.

You mostly know that you want to be funny, know that you have the desire. It's not like people who grow up beautiful and can look in the mirror and be like, I'm beautiful! Funny is more of a journey. And a desperate attempt.

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.

When you're doing comedy, it is so subjective. What is funny to you is not funny to another person. What is dirty to you is not dirty to the other person. Comedy is one of those things you throw against the wall and see what sticks.

The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

Bette Davis had very strong opinions and was not afraid to express them. She wasn't afraid of anything that I ever saw. And she was so funny. She's just funny and she was laughing all the time.

They always compare my 'Crazy Story' to Meek's 'Tony Story.'

When I was in college, I had a friend who was an artist and her theory was that all the best art in the world is funny/sad. That was her favorite genre. Funny/sad are probably my two favorite tones.

I try to think of something catchy to say, but there's nothing but irritation that something that was funny yo an eleven-year-old boy is still funny to a seventeen-year-old one.

I noticed that in 'The Revenant,' as much as it is a good story of revenge and endurance, there are times that you get to escape with a story like that.

The story of America is necessarily one of progress because if it's not than it's a stale story where we have not risen above Klansmen.

The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.

The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live.

If I'm telling an L.A. story, I want to tell a fresh L.A. story and show places that haven't been shown before.

If there’s no one else to tell another side - the only story that can be told is the story that becomes true. (p. 173)

I write movies, so - I look at boxing, and I commentated on it, as if I were telling you the story of a movie or a short story.

Every success story in this country was because of capitalism. Everything we're doing. Look at my story. It couldn't be done.

Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.

When I approach a story or movie, the story is the most important thing.

You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next chapter's going to be. That's what makes it exciting.

I carry the landscape inside me like an ache. The story of who I am cannot be severed from the story of the flatwoods.

I worked in the story department for years, on Cars and Toy Story 3.

I'm a slave to the beats of the story, not to the words we use to tell the story.

I always say, if I tell you a joke right now and it's funny, you laugh. Now, we set the lights, and I tell you the joke again, it's hard to find it funny the second time.

The story of Airbnb is really the underdog story in many ways.

Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate.

Conversation on the page should reflect what the story is about. It doesn't have to be "realistic" in the sense that it's something you heard and plugged into a story.

You get to the end of something, you're laughing, you're like, 'That's funny, and that's funny,' and then you get to the end, and the credits come down, and you're like, 'That's it?! That's the whole thing?! You had me here for that?!' I just don't want to do that.

Reynie's fce fell. 'It's not funny, Kate.' For a moment - a fleeting moment - Kate looked desperately sad. 'Well, of course it's not funny, Reynie Muldoon. But what do you want me to do? Cry?

It's just so funny that when I was growing up, I was very much of an Australian. I just thought it was funny that there was this war, like, 'No, she's ours, she's practically a Miss Australia.' But I am a Miss Philippines.

Anybody can go onstage and be dirty. You have to be funny, that's the key. You can say anything as long as it's funny. You can't take it too seriously up there. And people coming to see you can't take it too seriously.

I have my website, The Ruckus, which is an Internet site, similar to the Funny or Die format, where people post funny videos. I get a chance to rate their videos; they get a chance to blog and kick it with me.

AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress.

Anytime you have the opportunity to do any kind of story that is based on a true story, I think those are the most inspirational.

The story of '3 Mics' is the story of a guy who wants to be something and is sort of figuring out how he gets there.

I'm not very good at story. In fact, compared to character and language, I barely care about story at all.

A good tattoo always has a story that runs deeper than the skin, and Inked tells that story.

I've been told that my music tells a story, but I don't know the story.

Humor is not funny. Humor is something else. Funny is a joke, sometimes silly. Comedy is deep and connected to tragedy; comedy could be deeper than tragedy, in my view.

I always felt that it was easier to take a funny person and teach them to write television than to take somebody who was a television writer and make them funny.

Be it any industry, what matters to me is the story as that is what the audience are primarily in a theatre for - to enjoy a good story.

It's funny looking at yourself. You know how it is when you look back at old pictures? It's just funny looking back at yourself walking and talking at age 14.

When I say something funny, I don’t laugh, so my friends are always like, ‘Hahahahaaaa!’ so people know. When I’m not with them, I always think, This person doesn’t know I’m funny; they just think I’m a jerk.

I think all artists have a different story to tell, and no story is the same.

As a filmmaker, you look for a story, and the story has to have conflict and a match of opposites.

It's funny looking at yourself. You know how it is when you look back at old pictures? It's just funny looking back at yourself walking and talking at age 14

A performance can have amazing visuals and special effects, but it has to tell a good story, even if that story isn't original.

I wouldn't do a project if it weren't a story I wanted to tell. That's rewarding in itself, as a writer, if you're working on a story that you enjoy telling.

A story must be told in such a way that it constitutes help in itself. My grandfather was lame. Once they asked him to tell a story about his teacher. And he related how the holy Baal Shem used to hop and dance while he prayed. My grandfather rose as he spoke, and he was so swept away by his story that he himself began to hop and dance to show how the master had done. From that hour he was cured of his lameness. That's how to tell a story.

I worked in the story department for years on 'Cars' and 'Toy Story 3.'

It's funny how you can look back in life and there are all these 'if's' - if this hadn't happened would I have been here? If I hadn't done this would I have ended up talking to you? It's funny how life is seriously just a bunch of those moments.