Quotes of: Detective-stories Keyword

Magic, historically, has been a man doing tricks with no wider story behind it.

Drummond Money-Coutts

All wars are full of stories that sound like fiction.

Javier Cercas

When something is dramatized, it provokes a much more emotive response than just hearing a story on the news.

Joanne Froggatt

And, of course, supernatural elements just make a story more interesting.

John Foster

The comics were not only stories to enjoy; for me they were drawings that possessed me.

Jean Giraud

And the moral of the story is that you don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.

John Green

I want to get up there and tell entertaining stories but that are also to a certain extent clean.

Jon Heder

'X-Men' films have always been big, and necessarily so, because of the stories they have to tell.

Josh Helman

I'm a child of the literary bent. I don't want to see 140 characters. I want to see a story.

Joanne Kelly

Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director.

John Lasseter

I saw a story in the Los Angeles Times that 40 percent of the viewers are men. It didn't really surprise me.

James Denton

All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis.

Helen Suzman

I would love to have a career that's governed by the material; I always want to be part of stories that I feel are worthwhile.

Lupita Nyong'o

I've done a lot of theater, and I know that it's a different audience each time who doesn't know the story, and we have to tell it.

Courtney B. Vance

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

George Eliot

Real luxury is having the time to read endless stories in bed with my children. And I get that all the time. I'm so blessed.

Kate Winslet

They suggested I should introduce an element of reincarnation in the story. At first, I thought that was silly. But then, this whole time dimension began to fascinate me.

Roland Joffe

Most of the time, when the mainstream media reports on something, it never tells the whole story.

Shane Smith

As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.

Travis Tritt

Ralphie as Adult: I slowly began to realize that i was not going to be destroyed.

A Christmas Story