Question The Narrative Quotes

#1. Finally, I had my answer: I could. I could question the narrative I had been taught about myself. I could take a risk and have it pay off in dividends.

Various

#2. Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.

Ivana Trump

#3. I'm looking for a charismatic character - somebody who you just want to look at and listen to and whom the camera likes. I'm also looking for a narrative arc: Something is going to happen, and there will be a question that will make you wonder what happens at the end.

Marshall Curry

#4. I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.

V.S. Naipaul

#5. It is only within the context of having properly developed your mind that you will be able to truly enjoy the achievement of your material values, including that of a more muscular body.

Mike Mentzer

#6. Philosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping.

Clive James

#7. Jeb Bush is facing criticism after it was just revealed that he checked off his race as 'Hispanic' on a voter registration form back in 2009. When asked if he regrets it now, Bush said, 'Si.'

Jimmy Fallon

#8. I believe my mother was smart enough to know that in the night, you are willing to tell all. If she waited until the next day, she knew she'd get one-syllable answers.

H.W. Brands

#9. I used to use a lot of words in the paintings but stopped because it created a narrative - or an answer to a question.

Danny Fox

#10. 'Tis true there is much to be done, ... but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping wears away stones ... and little strokes fell great oaks, as Poor Richard says ...

Benjamin Franklin

#11. I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, What happened next?

A.J.P. Taylor

#12. She had a turn for narrative, I for analysis; she liked to inform, I to question; so we got on swimmingly together, deriving much entertainment, if not much improvement, from our mutual intercourse.

Charlotte Bronte

#13. Women don't question themselves when they enter into a story that has male characters, but men do question the validity of a female narrative.

Romola Garai

#14. A narrative thread gives people permission to think about other things whilst being carried by its flow. It does not mean that one has to compromise one's vision, or question formal concerns. It's just being more subtle and clever by having one accessible thread.

Sally Potter

#15. Anger is what makes our struggle visible, and our struggle is what exposes they hypocrisy of a nation that fashions itself a moral leader. To rise against the narrative and expose the lie gives opportunity to those whose identity depends on the lie to question and, hopefully, change.

Mychal Denzel Smith

#16. I got pulled over by a cop, and he said, 'do you know the speed limit here is 55 miles per hour?'. So I said, 'oh, that's OK, I'm not going that far.'

Steven Wright

#17. I'm smarter than Grant; I know more about organization, supply and administration and about everything else than he does; but I'll tell you where he beats me and he beats the world. he don't care a damn for what the enemy does out of his sight, but it scares me like hell.

Philip Sheridan

#18. Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question.

Peter Straub

#19. It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.

Plato

#20. For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader.

Dana Goodyear

#21. I rest their case. I'm Pro-Life.

George W. Bush

#22. Case closed, game over, zip up your fly.

Stephen King

#23. I have to give my family credit for putting up with the racket, because as some of you may know, its not the easiest thing in the world to live with a kid who's trying to become a rock and roll drummer.

Max Weinberg

#24. Faith is not knowledge of an object but communion with it.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#25. Well, this whole question of how you work out the narrative is very mysterious. It's a good deal more arbitrary than most people who don't do it would ever believe.

Joan Didion