Narrating Quotes

#1. It's not like I'm narrating stories with music behind them. It's all kind of one thing. You hope you can provoke a specific emotional reaction, but in ways that aren't quite plain.

Jonathan Meiburg

#2. I followed myself around like a bully, narrating my thoughts and actions with a constant stream of abuse.

Allie Brosh

#3. No matter how tight the shot is, if I'm narrating it too much, there's a barrier between you and the experience, because the process of reading a book, or watching a movie, or watching a play is that you're watching a dream.

Clark Gregg

#4. When you are eighty years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the series of choices you have made. In the end, we are our choices.

Jeff Bezos

#5. I'm narrating the television series Biography. I'm still involved in my music - I have a new album out. I have an animated project in development. I'm writing a lot of things and you never know if one of them is going to become a six or seven year project.

Bill Mumy

#6. The narrating voice that tells 'Middlemarch' is just as much a made-up character as Dorothea or Mr. Casaubon.

Philip Pullman

#7. I don't like 'graphic novel.' It's a word that publishers created for the bourgeois to read comics without feeling bad. Comics is just a way of narrating - it's just a media type.

Marjane Satrapi

#8. If you didn't cried this time While narrating your story' it proves you are healed now

Nehali Lalwani

#9. I've never meditated for a moment in my life. I don't know how it works. But one of the things you have to do to put yourself in the meditating mode is stop narrating yourself to yourself.

Aleksandar Hemon

#10. And in a situation of war, we all experience it in much the same way, either as victim or perpetrator. So I'm not narrating a particular story. I'm just addressing experiences.

Doris Salcedo

#11. You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically you're just narrating it with music, letting it move along.

Edie Brickell

#12. In between that time, I've done book narrating, you know, books on tape for Dove Audio.

Juice Newton

#13. When the whole world is writing letters, it's easy to lap into the quiet within, tell the story of an hour, keep alive the narrating inner life. To be alone in the presence of one's thought is not a value, only a common practice.

Vivian Gornick

#14. Older Scout: [narrating] Neighbors bring food with death, and flowers with sickness, and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a knife, and our lives.

Harper Lee

#15. Narrating incredible things as though they were real old system; narrating realities as though they were incredible the new.

Cesare Pavese

#16. I was in the midst of narrating a wicked chapter where the heroine is tied up and blindfolded, when it finally happened.

Genna Rulon

#17. In a film called 'Senna,' the clue is in the title, and we have a Brazilian badge on our sleeve as we were making it. We were making it from Senna's point of view, with Senna narrating it.

Asif Kapadia

#18. Memory is fiction ... All memory is a way of reconstructing the past ... The act of narrating a memory is the act of creating fiction. [Armitstead, Claire. "Damon Galgut talks about his novel In a Strange Room." The Guardian. 10 September 2010.]

Damon Galgut

#19. I think I have always tried to connect my comedy to my art.

Louie Anderson

#20. Every citizen or subject of another country, while domiciled here, is within the allegiance and the protection, and consequently subject to the jurisdiction, of the United States.

Horace Gray

#21. Dreams shouldn't be about what you can buy
they should be about what mark you leave in the world.

Claire Cross

#22. Political action involves mental vulgarity, not merely because it entails the occurrence and support of those who are mentally vulgar, but because of the simplification of human life implied in even the best of it purposes.

Michael Joseph Oakeshott

#23. Transfer the point of concentration to some object outside of yourself - another person, a puzzle, a broken plate that you are gluing.

Sanford Meisner

#24. I hate it when men go to strip bars. It lowers the rest of us that know if a man has to pay to see a woman naked, he is a loser and probably should get weeded out.

Henry Rollins

#25. Hunting, like life, Hunter believes, consists chiefly of waiting.

Neil Gaiman

#26. You can't be human alone.

Maggie Kuhn

#27. Look around you: there is not a doctor who desires the health of his friends, not a soldier who desires peace for his country.

Philemon

#28. I think that when you create something or at least try to create something, you slither between excitement and pleasure and you understand this huge emotional frustration. You did one feat, then you go back one.

Audrey Tautou

#29. I definitely consider 'Poses' - the whole album in fact - to be kind of a miracle. Like the last breath of that moment when decadence is healthy, 'Poses' encapsulates that feeling. It's a kind of song and a kind of album that I'll never be able to repeat.

Rufus Wainwright

#30. Stop using, "easier said than done", as an excuse to not change! Bringing your life to a higher level is challenging; get over it and rise to the challenge!

Steve Maraboli

#31. No loose fish enters our quiet bay.

Gertrude Atherton

#32. It's definitely a relief that it's over. It's been a long season for us, with ups and downs. But we're going to put it behind us now and we've got to try and be a better team.

Eddie Griffin