Quotes About Narrative

Telling them the story of my life as I knew it (i.e., the last four days). Good times, good times.

Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together and

Most remarkable of all, of the album's eight tracks 'Come All Ye' is the only song that has a chorus that can easily be joined by an audience. The rest wander deeper into their respective narratives; unlike a pop song with refrains, hooks and totemic, easily assimilable recapitulations, these songs hold the attention with the persistence of a tale-spinner.

What we have in this great story, as I have proposed elsewhere, is not merely a report of history but an imagining of history that is analogous to what Shakespeare did with historical figures and events in his history plays.

The traditional American war movie treats war as episodic and unusual, but here the voice-overs by Train elevate such violence and destruction to permanent metaphysical status. This is another reason why the narrative framework of the genre is invoked only to be refused.

A film is not a story told with pictures, it's a succession of experiences.

In cinema, words are a virus.

myths are not just stories: they are narrative hypotheses, personified theorems that address the very nature of the world... Myths are really about the nature of nature...

Master programmers think of systems as stories to be told rather than programs to be written.

I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.

I sense that I am dawdling in this narrative, having already reached my eighth roll of Hieratica, and need to speed it up a little, else either I shall die on the job, or you will be worn out reading.

These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale -

traditional economic approaches fail to examine the role of public beliefs in major economic events—that is, narrative. By incorporating an understanding of popular narratives into their explanations of economic events, economists will become more sensitive to such influences when they forecast the future. In doing so, they will give policymakers better tools for anticipating and dealing with these developments.

A man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his life as if he were recounting it.

The basic technological unemployment narrative is the same, but the examples have a wider scope. First, giant locomotives and electrical power equipment economized on human muscle power. After the mutation, the narrative focused on computers replacing human thinking. This mutation refreshed the narrative.

It was a thing of legends.

You want stories? Thom Merrilin declaimed. I have stories, and I will give them to you. I will make them come alive before your eyes.

Leaders in stories never had to put up with this sort of thing.

It would be easier if this was a story, he thought. In

In accounting', rich dad would say, 'It's not the numbers , but what the numbers are telling you. It's just like words. It's not the words, but the story the words are telling you.

Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure.

According to the article, Douglass responds, "No, no, … I am Marshal Douglass in Washington; here let me be Fred Douglass again."41 Was Douglass in some odd way asking to be a slave again or to be treated as a kind of boy, as some of his critics at the time suggested?

we must understand that suffering results from the stories we tell ourselves.

Learning how to tell a powerful story is learning how to show up as the winner you are.