Quotes of: Detective-stories Keyword

I hate when you see a film and after one scene you know what's going to happen and you can predict the whole story.

Noomi Rapace

I'm a storyline. I'm the chosen one for negative stories and controversial things. If I worried about it all, I would go insane.

Ndamukong Suh

My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in my school production.

Olivia Cooke

I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do.

Oliver North

Already when I was very young, I was a fabulador. I loved to give my own version of stories that everybody already knew.

Pedro Almodovar

The reason most comedies don't win awards is that the filmmakers put the comedy first. This means you have to create a story around the jokes.

Paul Feig

'Tell to Win' reveals the key elements that tellers of purposeful stories utilize to engage their listeners and turn them into viral advocates of the tellers' goals.

Peter Guber

I would like to continue to tell stories of what I did in a biographical way, so I will continue to write.

Philippe Petit

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

Philip Pullman

Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.

Paul Samuelson

Frankly, I've got to admit that I'm not perfect and have made some mistakes as some of the colourful stories about me reveal.

Peter Slipper

...writing Jeeves stories gives me a great deal of pleasure and keeps me out of the public houses.

P.G. Wodehouse

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.

Ray Bradbury

In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.

Ray Bradbury

All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament.

Ray Bradbury

I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.

Rachel Cusk

There's clearly a lot of Ludditism, and you see it in all the hysteria about every scientific story.

Richard Dawkins

I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.

Richard Ford

'Ocean's Kingdom' is a fairy story with no subtext, no resonance - it's not about anything except its water-logged plot.

Robert Gottlieb

I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.

Robert Harris

I just want to tell stories that have an impact on people. Somebody needs to have an impact because people are lost. People are really lost.

Rebecca De Mornay