Cold Quote by Michael Portillo

“Stories are how we think. They are how we make meaning of life. Call them schemas, scripts, mental maps, ideas, metaphors, or narratives. Stories…

— Jeroninio Almeida

“Narratives, stories, help create a deeper sense of shared identity. They generate meaning and foster cooperative actions through neurochemical correlates that kick into motion…

— David Amerland

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

Confronting and undermining the narratives and ideas of extremism must therefore be one of our key tasks. To do this, we must retain the…

— Jonas Gahr Store

“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

Throughout African-American literature, the writer has, in a sense, been burdened by the necessity of pleading the case for the whole race. For example,…

— Glenn Ligon

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

The religious imagery and fairytales that formed our shared cultural references have been replaced by the cult of celebrity. Marilyn is the sex goddess,…

— Alison Jackson

“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

Narratives can be misconstrued.

— Jordan Poole

“Our reflection of action occurs in different contexts which may influence us to shape our accounts in different ways for different audiences - our…

— Jacqui Stedmon

Extremist perspectives win sympathy and recruits because they offer narratives that claim to identify deep injustices and enemies.

— Jonas Gahr Store