Quotes of: Detective-stories Keyword

Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books.

Pat Brown

Lord of the Rings is a good thing for us because it opened the door for the genre in general. Le Guin's stories are very different from Lord of the Rings.

Shawn Ashmore

Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'

Salman Rushdie

In order to have a TV series, you have to have a good idea for the story.

Tiny Tim

I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.

Beth Ditto

The stories a society tells about itself are a measure of how it values itself, the ideals of democracy, and its future.

Henry Giroux

As more people use social media to tell the story of the future, the wants and needs of more people will be reflected.

Simon Mainwaring

As a child, I'd always liked cowboys and Indians stories where there were two layers - gruesome in the foreground but funny in the background.

Anthony Browne

I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.

Jeff Kinney

So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.

Todd Solondz

I don't have to be bam, bam, bam, funny when I'm working. I can tell stories, and there's some funny in them.

Whoopi Goldberg

Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.

Abe Fortas

For me, the American promise isn't just an idea or a theory - it's my life story.

Cristina Saralegui

If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.

Charlize Theron

Someone once told me that the most dynamic actors are people who have stories. People who have lived life. People with experiences.

Emmanuelle Chriqui

I love stories that give me a perspective on how easy American life has become in the 21st century.

Hope Davis

I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.

Isabel Allende

Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.

Ira Glass

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

I've gone through a lot of stuff in my life so far. There are stories I haven't really been able to tell.

Joe Jonas

I do a film because I like the story and I want to give life to a character - I don't necessarily have to agree with the director.

Kristin Scott Thomas