Top 1200 Plot Twists Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

The future was uncertain, absolutely, and there were many hurdles, twists, and turns to come, but as long as I kept moving forward, one foot in front of the other, the voices of fear and shame, the messages from those who wanted me to believe that I wasn't good enough, would be stilled.

The redemption plot is one of the oldest story shapes.

[Before I Go To Sleep] script was a great journey with all the twists and turns that were kind of unexpected. I had to finish the script, and I thought if we can emulate this in the film, it's going to be a really good film.

It is odd, the twists that life will sometimes take. The ewe that you think will give birth with ease dies bringing forth a two-headed lamb. Or the ski trail that you have been told is treacherous, you navigate easily.

Conflict is the place where character and plot intersect.

The characters write the plot. Their natures do.

So much of your life is wrapped up in the songs. All the twists come back, and you go back to that place when you were singing it. It's like reading your own diary and being in a time machine.

Eventually I did that, but it took a lot of twists and turns, and there were a year or two there where I was living with no money at all - no home, no car, no nothing. I was living in somebody's garage in Los Angeles at that point - for a year.

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.

This book has too much plot and not enough story.

While you certainly will recognize 'Outlander' if you've been reading the books, there's also this wonderful sense of novelty and discovery about it because of all the little new touches and twists. I watch it in utter fascination waiting to see what will happen.

I think the people that enjoyed Freedom will love this one; and I actually think some of the unique musical twists this project is taking will open it up to a whole new audience as well.

Plot is to literature what individual holes are to miniature golf.

Plot is unimportant. Family is everything, and 'Furious 7' is a blast.

I feel like I know how to write plot.

I write largely plot-driven stories.

The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.

What a Devil is the Plot good for, but to bring in fine things?

There are few films where you have women really driving the plot.

I love a life whose plot is simple.

I got into reading a lot of noir and a lot of thrillers as well, and I really admired the plotting about those and the way that they can surprise you. And obviously to surprise people and to have twists in the tale, you have to plan quite carefully.

I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much art of the past decade, Grotjahn isn't simply working from a prescribed checklist of academically acceptable, curator-approved 'isms' and twists.

It's very hard to find true friends when your life is a bumpy ride full of twists and turns. But, I'm glad that amidst all the ramblings in my life I have managed to win some great friends.

I have seen, the desperation and disorder of the powerless: how it twists the lives of children on the streets of Jakarta or Nairobi in much the same way as it does the lives of children on Chicago 's South Side.

Love - not dim and blind but so far-seeing that it can glimpse around corners, around bends and twists and illusion; instead of overlooking faults love sees through them to the secret inside.

I don't relax, I don't celebrate. I sit and plot.

I think of how life takes unexpected twists and turns, sometimes through sheer happenstance, sometimes through calculated decisions. In the end, it can all be called fate, but to me, it is more a matter of faith.

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.

What I have to outline is action and plot because I'm not particularly good at that.

Oh what would Rome be without a plot?

This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

To save my son, I would plot with the devil himself.

I live with a few friends on a plot of land.

Plot and character are virtually the same thing.

Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.

My favorite songwriting trick is writing something like 'XO.' In my brain, I thought, 'This is probably going to be a love song. How can I change that and find ways to twist that.' As a songwriter, it's your job for the song to take twists and turns that people don't expect.

A sketch should be about two to three minutes, which is basically what most songs are. They're usually done by groups. Good examples of each build and have different parts and twists in them. I guess sketch would be the comedy version of music.

In order to have a plot, you have to have a conflict, something bad has to happen.

I really think in life there is a lot of mystery and things we just can’t understand and your brain has to adapt... We all have to deal with the twists of fate whether they are explained or not and it’s how you react in life to these curveballs that is really the measure of a man.

The character's attitude is more important than plot.

Going by my past journey, I am not certain where life will take me, what turns and twists will happen; nobody knows where they will end up. As life changes direction, I'll flow with it.

Everyone must hoe his plot daily.

You don't idea your way into a plot but plot your way into an idea.

For those of you looking for your action-packed read, check out 'Red Queen' by Victoria Aveyard and 'Vengeance Road' by Erin Bowman. One's a fantasy and one's a Western, but they both feature strong leading ladies and some harrowing twists!

Because we spent so much time in the writer's room, not even talking about where it goes, but just who the people are in our world, we could find all those unexpected moments and twists and turns that we didn't even see ourselves.

In the many-mansioned house of Alternate History, I occupy a small corner. The trio of what-ifs I chronicled in 'Then Everything Changed' all begin with tiny, highly plausible twists of fate that lead to hugely consequential shifts in history.

I always pity people who have to write my plot synopses.

Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.

A plot begins when somebody has something to hide.

Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.

Life has no plot, why must films or fiction?

Father’s silence is not merely the absence of sound. It’s a creature with a life of its own. It chokes you. It pinches you small as a grain of rice. It twists in your gut like a worm. Silence clawed at my throat. It left a taste of burnt matches.

When it comes to a character, I make sure that it adds to the plot.

Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not.

I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot.

When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun.

The opposing missions of the various characters create the plot.

Time is the metre, memory the only plot.

With a reality show, the bottom line is, there's no plot; there's no finale.