Joan Silber Quotes

#1. A story is entirely determined by what portion of time it chooses to narrate.

Joan Silber

#2. My biggest influences are strong, creative women that chart their own path, lead their own lives and drive the course of history.

Rachel Roy

#3. She was holding desperately on to the words that had saved her life.

Markus Zusak

#4. Slowed time is -- or should be -- a way of pointing to what's important.

Joan Silber

#5. The state is facing a unique and extraordinary set of challenges and opportunities that demand the involvement of all of us to address them. It's time for everyone to pull together to improve California's competitiveness.

Carly Fiorina

#6. I don't know why, but it means a lot to get a compliment from a woman.

Marisa Miller

#7. If you saw through everything, it made it hard to figure out what to do with yourself.

Joan Silber

#8. A story is already over before we hear it. That is how the teller knows what it means.

Joan Silber

#9. Horror story is not result of accident.

Jie Zhang

#10. You don't know what you're going to be faithful to in this world, do you? It was true I didn't have what other people had, I knew that, and yet I couldn't think of a single other life I envied - no, I couldn't - though I knew better than to try to get anyone to believe it.

Joan Silber

#11. This is fictional time, where events play out and possibilities are exhausted, so that meaning can emerge.

Joan Silber

#12. We need to take vegetables out of the role of side dish, even in low-fat, vegetarian diets, whose calories are generally derived mainly from grains and other starches.

Joel Fuhrman

#13. [S]torytelling, in ancient and modern practice, is always a contemplation of the experience of time passing. A story depends on things not standing still, on the built-in condition of impermanence.

Joan Silber

#14. There are only two ways to establish competitive advantage: do things better than others or do them differently.

Karl Albrecht

#15. L.A.'s become so cosmopolitan in its casting and also in its world view.

Jamie Bamber

#16. There are not many people on Team Gary. Actually, it's two people. My kids.

Gary Ross

#17. I'm fairly certain YOLO is just Carpe Diemm for stupid people.

Jack Black

#18. Somewhere, something incredible happened in history - the wrong guys won.

Norman Mailer

#19. Length is weight in fiction, pretty much.

Joan Silber

#20. So, in the end, we were hypocrites for kindness. Both of us. Standing with my bouquet of orange blossoms, I thought: I'm happy but I'm in disguise. But probably many people feel that at their weddings.

Joan Silber

#21. It's much more casual than it was, but my clothes and my ring attire - I thought up half of what I brought to the show.

Ric Flair