Quotes of: Detective-stories Keyword

A really irritating thing when you're watching a film is if somebody's accent isn't bang-on - it distracts you from getting into the story because you're thinking: 'Where are they from?'

Rachel Hurd-Wood

Angels, demons, spirits, wizards, gods and witches have peppered folk religions since mankind first started telling stories.

Robin Marantz Henig

My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.

Rachel Kushner

We know that we're not supposed to be racially biased, and we don't want to think of ourselves as racially biased, so we tell ourselves a different story.

Randall Kennedy

Subject matter that is not bound to reality offers more opportunity to write a unique story and cinematically present it in very unique ways.

Richard King

How often, really, do you get a Filipino story line in a show? Not very often. I can't think of any.

Reggie Lee

I have heard repeated stories of meth users leaving their children unattended for days as they cook, use and then sleep off the intense effects of methamphetamine.

Rick Larsen

A fortress built long ago, Walls made timeless by historic glory. The small girl in the boat slows, To listen to its story.

Rachel Lewis

The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.

Stephen Gardiner

I used to be more of a purist about literature. I thought, 'If it's a really propulsive story, then maybe there's something unliterary about it.'

Steven Heighton

Blurred is the picture, To not know what's next! Is it the laughter that awaits, Or sorrows lined up to dictate. Untold, unclear is... A story of our fate!

Somya Kedia

I am not protecting myself or preaching you my story, Reasons will be many but life will move on even in painful journey.

Santosh Kalwar

I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker.

Spike Lee

I always have a contract with a character. Even when he's unappealing. The contract is to give him his due. To tell his story. And to keep his secrets.

Stephen Lang

When people starts to enjoy a writer's pen, he becomes a legend even if his stories are neither long nor publicly surrounded by expectations.

A. Saleh

The fountain of youth is like the monkey's paw in the W. W. Jacobs story. It never ends well.

Sarah Monette

I try to push a single idea to its absolute limit. So for all of those ideas that existed in the story, you attempt to find a physical realisation in the space.

Simon McBurney

My scars tell a story. They are a reminder of times when life tried to break me, but failed. They are markings of where the structure of my character was welded.

Steve Maraboli

What we call consciousness is our ability to perceive stimuli and to file it within the parameters of our personal story.

Steve Maraboli

Do try The House by fresh new author, Susannah Mansfield, it's funny, sad and very different, you'll love the characters and the stories.

Susannah Mansfield

What if Science is God's way of reminding us that he is greater than the stories and dogma we have confined him to?

Steve Maraboli