Narratives can be misconstrued.

“When she smiles, the lines in her face become epic narratives that trace the stories of generations that no book can replace.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

In a general sense, to convert any short story, novel, play, or opera into a movie, you have to re-rig it. Even though they're…

— Alexander Payne

Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories. I thought,…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“News organizations are coy about admitting that what they present us with each day are minuscule extracts of narratives whose true shape and logic…

— Alain de Botton

I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.

— Rachel Weisz

I think we all are born inside of our parents' narratives. We stay there for a good while. We are taught their narratives about…

— Melissa Febos

Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood… storytelling is intrinsic to biological time, which…

— A. S. Byatt

We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

I am a very open person, and I'm always nervous of being misconstrued. Sitting in the middle of a restaurant makes me nervous. I…

— Rachel Hunter

Being the ideal of a strong woman means utilizing all the things that God gives you. People are always saying to me, 'You're a…

— Kelis

To the non-initiate, whose experience of sexuality and bodily pleasure may be distorted by negative cultural conditioning, the introduction of sexuality into a sacred…

— Zeena Schreck

“In the beginning was the word, and that word was probably misconstrued by someone who then made it into a personal issue and started…

— Ade Bozzay

It's really important to remember that most people in the public eye are human for a start and a lot of things that you…

— Geri Halliwell

These activities can be misconstrued, misinterpreted, and used to harm you as an individual, even without the government having any intent to do you…

— Edward Snowden

Idleness, simon-pure, from which all manner of good springs like seed from a fallow soil, is sure to be misnamed and misconstrued.

— Louise Imogen Guiney