A story about my life would be utterly dull.
‐‐ James McAvoy
A story begins and it always passes from the subjunctive to the declarative. And Italians don't seem to care about making a fine distinction between that which is speculation and that which is fact.
‐‐ Donna Leon
A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst possible turn.
‐‐ Friedrich Durrenmatt
A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people.
‐‐ Greg Egan
A story in your head isn't a story. It's just a daydream until you actually write it down. So write it down.
‐‐ Andy Weir
A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream.
‐‐ Steven Erikson
A story is a story is a story. The only difference is in the techniques you bring to bear. There are always limitations on what you can and can't do. But I enjoy that. Just like when you write a sonnet or haiku, there are rules you have to abide by. And to me, playing within the rules is the fun part. It keeps the brain fresh.
‐‐ J. Michael Straczynski
A story is built on characters and reasons.
‐‐ Steven Amsterdam
A story is how we construct our experiences.
‐‐ Doris Lessing
A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn.
‐‐ Friedrich Durrenmatt
A story is open-ended. A story invites you into it to make your own meaning.
‐‐ Katherine Paterson
A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
‐‐ Susan Griffin
A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
‐‐ Irving Thalberg
A story really isn't truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion.
‐‐ Ted Naifeh
A story shared back and forth is just about the most perfect symbiotic gift. It's a bit like love. No, it's a lot like love.
‐‐ Deborah Wiles
A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.
‐‐ Jean-Luc Godard
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.
‐‐ Isaac Bashevis Singer
A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.
‐‐ Bruce Boxleitner
A straight factor is important in any comedy, because you need something to tee it up and also to ground it.
‐‐ Jason Bateman
A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
‐‐ Michel de Montaigne
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
‐‐ Andre Gide
A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people.
‐‐ Edmund White
A strange potion runs through the basketball blood of Portland. It's stayed hot from the days of games at the Memorial Coliseum, where the Blazers played from their inception in 1970 until 1995.
‐‐ Rowan Ricardo Phillips
A strange thing happens to me that I'm sure happens to a lot of actors when the camera starts rolling. I'm not 'me' any more.
‐‐ Emily Browning
A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.
‐‐ Grandma Moses
A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn?
‐‐ Hugh Mackay
A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique.
‐‐ Michael Porter
A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.
‐‐ Jack Welch
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
‐‐ O. Henry
A street criminal can steal only what he can carry, but with a stroke of a pen, the dialing of a telephone or the pushing of a computer key, the white collar criminal can and does steal billions.
‐‐ Janet Reno
A street full of electric light is a sign of civic failure and is an insulting injury to the soul. Shutting out the night is as disastrous as shutting out the light.
‐‐ Michael Leunig
A street is a story in asphalt - so it's a paradox that the streets are the one place where the movies play fast and loose with continuity, something to which L.A. streets lend themselves as naturally as does the city's psyche.
‐‐ Steve Erickson
'A Streetcar Named Desire' is one of the best, if not the best, modern American plays. It deals with family dynamics, mental health, PTSD, war, and love. It's hard to beat.
‐‐ Ben Foster
A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.
‐‐ Elizabeth I
A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.
‐‐ Anne Sullivan
A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.
‐‐ Edna Ferber
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
‐‐ George Santayana
A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee understands the need to raise the bar as well as the financial investment, Florida will continue to celebrate mediocrity at the expense of true achievement.
‐‐ Dan Gelber
A strong and dedicated mentor can help a young woman get her foot in the door, get a promotion and get a raise.
‐‐ Kirsten Gillibrand
A strong and enthusiastic niche audience can push a topic into mainstream consciousness with speed and force.
‐‐ Rachel Sklar
A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
‐‐ Edgar Allan Poe
A strong case can be made for religious leaders to speak out on political issues.
‐‐ Tony Campolo
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
‐‐ Daniel Webster
A strong economy begins with a strong, well-educated workforce.
‐‐ Bill Owens
A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel.
‐‐ Rahm Emanuel
A strong, educated middle class is what made America the greatest country in the world.
‐‐ Lincoln Chafee
A strong emotion, especially if experienced for the first time, leaves a vivid memory of the scene where it occurred.
‐‐ Algernon Blackwood
A strong foe is better than a weak friend.
‐‐ Edward Dahlberg
A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.
‐‐ Rebecca West