Quotes About Narratives

The problem, it is claimed, with grand narratives is that they privilege one perspective over another; the alternative is a relativism which holds that all perspectives are equally valid.

If you want a strong future: You need to get past the stories that you have told yourself and others. You need to hear the heartbeatthat's the real you.

I never trust frank and simple people whose stories hold together.

L'histoire n'est pas seulement celle des réalités concrètes : c'est aussi celle des idées, des sentiments, des regrets et des rêves.

comme beaucoup de Marseillais, les récits de voyages me comblaient plus que les voyages eaux-mêmes / come molti marsigliesi, i racconti di viaggi mi incantavano più dei viaggi stessi.

Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.

Science has always been in conflict with narratives. Judged by the yardstick of science, the majority of them prove to be fables. But to the extent that science does not restrict itself to stating useful regularities and seeks truth, it is obliged to legitimate the rules of its own game.

All the stories are wonderful, except maybe the ones about Dominic.

If there is one indignity I shall never endure gracefully, it is watching people mess around with my most cherished personal narratives about them.

If all we do is immerse ourselves in the stories of bad people doing bad things to each other and the planet, we will sink under the weight of a lopsided story.

It's what we do with the myths we grow up with that matters.

looking at the silent buildings, each one with a story to tell.

But all these truths, woven together, might give us a picture of what is true. That is why it's important to know all the different stories. We can never see all the sky at once.

The pages of life's book turn swiftly, so let us fill them with stories worth sharing. ~Aloo Denish

Los pueblos tienen en común que han conocido a la fuerza el hambre en uno u otro momento de su historia. La escasez crea vínculos. Y proporciona cosas que contar.".

A house with any kind of age will have dozens of stories to tell. I suppose if a novelist could live long enough, one could base an entire oeuvre on the lives that weave in and out of an antique house.

I am always looking for stories that have not been told too much, and one story that I think is really gripping and important is what police officers go through.

My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for great stories.

In popular culture, when women compete, it's usually over a man, and it's usually very nasty. And that is just frankly not my experience. That's just some kind of popular mythology, it feels like. I find it insulting.

I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV.

There is more to life than saas bahu issues with women being portrayed as petty characters and their own worst enemies.

I'd like there to be consistently more women's storylines going on at the same time.

I want to contribute to the culture and keep great writers alive by telling the stories of their lives.

As a black man working in the business, it's a challenge sometimes to get some of these things and these stories told when they don't quite fit in a box or convention of what people expect of you or what you should be telling.