Quotes of: Detective-stories Keyword

The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.

Derrick Jensen

When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience.

Michael Shermer

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

Taylor Swift

Anyone, any type of story, it doesn't have to be a crime victim, you don't have to let yourself be food for the media.

Bernhard Goetz

I can't tell a story about a working-class family on a premium channel that you have to pay to get.

Cristela Alonzo

Reading with my children is incredibly important to me and a wonderful way to spend time together as a family, exploring magical worlds through books and stories.

Frank Lampard

There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.

Gus Van Sant

I've been in this business now for almost ten years. I've done a lot of stories. I have a pretty good track record.

Michael Hastings

You hear stories like that of Canadians trying to get in, but when you go back home, you don't expect that.

Caroline Dhavernas

If no one shopped on Thanksgiving Day, the stores wouldn't open. End of story. I say we all take the pledge and stay home. Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks for what you have, not to save a few dollars to get more.

Regina Brett

Online publication is fine with me, in part because I hope to collect those stories later.

Gene Wolfe

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.

Donald Kagan

To me, British fashion has a story. It has history, and I feel it's very much about our culture.

Rita Ora

Perhaps our imagination needs crime stories to fulfill some craving we have, as a way to assuage a darkness in ourselves.

James Nesbitt

I remember my dad working with me on breaking down my script and writing out a back story for my character and all that stuff.

Jason Bateman

My dad knows how to tell a story. He'd make me laugh by doing all the different voices.

Lily Collins

I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

Stephen King

Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.

David Lynch

Bankruptcy is about financial death and financial rebirth. Bankruptcy is the great American story rewritten. We're a nation of debtors.

Elizabeth Warren

Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.

Orlando Bloom

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

Frank Zappa