Quotes About Narratives

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.

The one thing that is always clear in my mind is that the people, and their stories, and the themes of life that I photograph are always more important to me than the process of photography itself.

Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.

She knew that women were rarely the centers of such stories. Instead, they were eye candy, arm candy, victims, or love interests. Mostly, they existed to help the great white hetero hero on his fucking epic journey. When there was a heroine, she weighed very little, wore very little, and had had her teeth fixed.

For the college essay, she wrote that in these stories, being orphaned is a precondition for the making of a hero. She also said those comic book heroes aren't simple heroes, but 'complicated ones who make moral compromises in the same tradition as the orphans in Victorian narratives.

What is a life? That is what we were left with: stories. They were our clothes.

This book is dedicated to presenting some facts behind the making of minds that think, create narratives and meaning, remember the past and imagine the future; and to presenting some facts behind the machinery of feeling and consciousness responsible for the reciprocal connections among minds, the outside world, and its respective life.

We are incessant narrators of stories about almost anything in our lives, mostly about the important things but not only, and we happily color our narratives with all the biases of our past experiences and of our likes and dislikes. There is nothing fair and neutral about our narratives unless we go to the effort of reducing our preferences and prejudices, which we are well advised to do on things that matter for our lives and the lives of others.

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

Public opinion isn't formed independently, but driven by narratives from the political class and the media.

We marked a milestone for consumer empowerment when we began to publish consumer complaint narratives which allow people to share in their own words their experiences in the consumer financial marketplace.

I'm endlessly intrigued by stories, and I love helping someone to formulate his or her story. I can drift off when I'm reading pure abstraction, but the narratives of human lives hold my attention every time.

Films with predominantly white casts can come in any form, tell any story, big or small. For black films, you have the light, fluffy rom-coms or 'Madea' movies, and then you have the black-torture awards movie.

Fortunately, the world is full of people with information compulsion who want to tell you their stories. They want to tell you things that you don't know. They're some of the greatest allies that any writer has.

There are stories I'd like to tell, I'd like to see, and they're not getting made. These stories are beyond the experience of the people in power. They don't understand it, so they're frightened of it.

At least the girls in stories were alive before they died.

I dreamed of being a part of the stories—even terrifying one, even horror stories—because at least the girls in stories were alive before they died.

Each of us has a family tree full of stories inside of us, Dirk thought. Each of us has a story blossoming out of us.

Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.

Fossils have richer stories to tell - about the lub-dub of dinosaur life - than we have been willing to listen to.

These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north.

Readers are hungry to have their stories in the world, to see mirrors of themselves if the stories are about people like them, and to have windows if the stories are about people who have been historically absent in literature.

There can never be a single, satisfactory comprehensive account of the 'history of the British empire.'

Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.