An aphorism is a synthesis of poetry and prose, it is a narrative precipitate, a didactic parable, an ideological concept, in practice… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
It so happens that the major relationships in the novel [The Kite Runner] are between men, dictated not by any sort of… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
We had much more imagery from Vietnam war. The media was not controlled. The storyline, the master narrative was not controlled. I… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Muslim communities are the ones that going to see radicalization happening at a mosque or hear it in the community or even… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Since 9/11 we have somehow come to accept the 'radicalization' narrative, which basically holds that people become terrorists through a series of… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
The Limits Of Control is not surrealism, but it is an experiment in which expectations are deliberately removed: expectations for narrative form,… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
“The question of the relation between modernity and postmodernity revolves around the issue of 'legitimation.' Modernity, then, appeals to science to legitimate… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
We all have an aggressive dedication to the narrative arts - comics, film, electronic gaming, and more. We spend much of our… — Jim Steranko Copy Share Image
Narratives are not fixed. We change our narratives for ourselves and we change them not necessarily deliberately. In other words, some people… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
Maybe, generations ago, young people rebelled out of some clear motive, but now, we know we're rebelling. Between teen movies and sex-ed… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I thought both she [Gypsy Rose Lee] and her story would be ill-served by a conventional, birth-to-death narrative, and so I structured… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
Rex Stout's narrative and dialogue could not be improved, and he passes the supreme test of being rereadable. I don't know how… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Technology allows us to weed out a lot of the extraneous circumstances that can happen in certain environments. If you have an… — Kate Hudson Copy Share Image
I plan years in advance, but I like to leave enough space in the narrative scheme to change things, because I always… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
If you're, like, a PhD student in English, and you look at each instance that Richard Yates is mentioned in the book...it… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
George Orwell's '1984' frequently tops surveys of our greatest books: it's not a celebration of poetic language. It's decidedly anti-literary, a masterpiece… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
The language of chemistry simply does not mesh with that of biology. Chemistry is about substances and how they react, whereas biology… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
The silencing of the Haitian Revolution is only a chapter within a narrative of global domination. It is part of the history… — Michel-Rolph Trouillot Copy Share Image
It is not too fantastic to say that he desired them with some of the absolute passion that characterised the exposed and… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
I do want to take some time and reinvent and get better and maybe get behind the camera a little more. I… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
We didn't grow up in any sort of meaningful representation in media apart from, you know, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Bruce Lee.… — Simu Liu Copy Share Image
The tremendous challenge of narrative journalism about subjects that are underreported is, how do you make people care about something they think… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
We live immersed in narrative, recounting and reassessing the meaning of our past actions, anticipating the outcome of our future projects, situating… — Peter Brooks Copy Share Image
I do think that the abiding mystery of my origins has definitely had a profound effect upon my writing. There is that… — Gillian Welch Copy Share Image
“Even as the brain is dying, it refuses to stop generating a narrative, the scaffolding upon which it weaves cause and effect,… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
I think I'm still chewing on my years as a foreign correspondent. I found myself covering catastrophes - war, uprising, famine, refugee… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I'd like to be on 'Graham Norton.' Just because I used to do the audience warm-up for the 'Graham Norton' show, and… — Ellie Taylor Copy Share Image
Matthew loved the magi. He gave their story more square inches of text than he gave the narrative of the birth of… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
You [can] become part of someone else's narrative. Every once in a while I would get people asking me questions like, "If… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a narrative artist. I don't think of myself as a novelist or screenwriter or playwright. All of… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
That is many poets don't know how to tell a story and they don't have a sense of how to put things… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“The historical fact is that cinema was constituted as such by becoming narrative, by presenting a story, and by rejecting its other… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
At the most basic level, therefore, secure attachments in both childhood and adulthood are established by two individual's sharing a nonverbal focus… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
Anything that exists on a time basis - that has a beginning, middle, and end, because you start watching it and then… — Saschka Unseld Copy Share Image
When narratives fracture, when words fail, I take consolation from the part of my life that always works: the stationery order. The… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Nobody reads anymore in America. Reading has become the least effective delivery system for narrative. That's sad because prose is the means… — David Simon Copy Share Image
We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I've never been able to write narrative as a character, really. Jenny Lewis, I love her stuff, I love that she can… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
The study of everything that stands connected with the death of Christ, whether it be in the types of the ceremonial law,… — John Angell James Copy Share Image
It's great that I can look up a fact instantly on my cellphone, but I miss the days in my room with… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
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