Top 1200 Narrative Structure Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
Explore popular Narrative Structure quotes.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
My night stand is more like a geological structure: a bunch of books piled on the floor with its own strata.
A recipe is not an exact formula, but it does need a certain structure. When the bones are right, you can dress it in many ways.
Perhaps the challenge is to invent the political structure that will give conscience a better chance against authority.
I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.
[The task is to] covertly lower the standard of living, the whole social structure, of America so that we can be merged with all other nations.
This is not a story of heroic feats, or merely the narrative of a cynic; at least I do not mean it to be. It is a glimpse of two lives running parallel for a time, with similar hopes and convergent dreams.
My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world.
I've never been one that thinks that the function of an instrument is to approach the purity of voice or the structure of a beautifully sung line.
There's definitely something about the structure of 'Caddyshack' that is unique that no one has ever been able to achieve since then.
Eyebrows are the most difficult beauty feature to master - we all have different bone structure, brow texture, and coloring.
If the chords change a lot over the course of a song, it's better to stay within the same melodic structure.
No one can separate themselves from one's social group and remain healthy, because the very structure of personality is dependent on the community.
For every action there is a reaction. Karma can be examined within the structure of an hour, a year, a lifetime, a thousand lifetimes.
One of the principal achievements of physics in the 20th century has been the revelation that the atom is not indivisible or elementary at all but has a complex structure.
As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases.
I'm very interested in structure, how multiple stories are assembled in different ways; that is what memory does as well.
We may know the chemical structure of medicinal drugs, but we frequently have a very incomplete understanding of how they work.
It's possible to get through life without a religious structure, but I don't think that's a very fruitful way to live.
Architecture and architectural freedom are above all a social issue that must be seen from inside a political structure, not from outside it.
In my view, there's no doubt that the Soviets had infinitely greater trouble holding their structure together than we did.
The war is waged against its own subjects and its object is not the victory...but to keep the very structure of society intact.
If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that.
The unsaid is a powerful tool. It invites the reader into the narrative, filling in gaps, interpreting silences and half-finished sentences, and seeing the hidden fear in someone's eye.
The old handbook on writing is 'Write what you know.' I come from an autobiographical starting place almost all of the time, but it would be a mistake to presume that I'm not using fiction to extend the narrative.
And I sense it was a rather constructed, almost half narrative fiction film in some ways. A lot of it was staged and manipulated to get those things in there that I knew to be strong.
It's a wonderful narrative device to bring someone from the outside and look through his eyes if you want to describe the absurdity and preposterous reality that is accepted amongst the ones who are inside.
The main thrust of the Social Security reform was to get the benefit structure in line with the realities of the Trust Funds.
A lot of times I feel I probably would have ended up in a mental hospital if it weren't for the structure that 'Bones' gave me.
We have to change the whole job structure of America. We have got to basically reorient our economy toward the future.
When I was four or five, I would organise my cars and my action figures. I needed some kind of structure, I think.
Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.
Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.
I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape - almost fractal.
If the basic structure of Grameen is changed, the worry is that the poor women who are the rightful owners of the bank will be disenfranchised.
A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess.
As society has shifted from an agrarian to an urban structure, the joy and necessity of diligent, hard work have been neglected.
If the present economic structure can change only by collapsing, then it had better collapse as soon as possible.
What we are headed for is a sort of social structure in which the highbrows are the elite, the middlebrows are the bourgeoisie and the lowbrows are hoi polloi.
The media, the galleries, the collectors - it's all very chaotic actually. The artworld doesn't have this defined corporate structure that people imagine.
The Same organizing forces that have shaped nature in all her forms are also responsible for the structure of our minds.
Words originating from the verb 'to die' were frequently used when I described my initial plans to determine the ribosome structure.
Retirement is a work in progress. I try to figure out my day, and what I know about myself is that I need structure.
The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.
It's hard to live in a blind and aimless - or dishonest, rather - narrative when somebody in your family is going farther toward - or at least think they are and say they are - their true self.
A first-person voice helps to ensure the uniformity and cohesiveness of the narrative; it gathers unto itself incidents and characters in its unstoppable progress toward the story's end.
I've been a radio reporter for ten years, and if I learned anything from my time at 'This American Life,' it's how to craft a narrative so that even if the ending is ambiguous, it is somehow satisfying.
The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry.
Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very authentically looking for truth.
I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.
During my first year as a graduate student, we worked on a measurement of the isotope shift and hyperfine structure of mercury isotopes.
Power does not reside in institutions, not even the state or large corporations. It is located in the networks that structure society.
PM Modi's irresponsible behaviour and an overzealous Supreme Court will damage the Indian federal structure.
We cannot 'fix' the police without a revolution of values and radical change to the basic structure of our society.
I feel, as a game maker, we are responsible to make content that stretch the ruling structure and emotions so that everyone can enjoy.
It so happens that the major relationships in the novel [The Kite Runner] are between men, dictated not by any sort of prejudice or discomfort with female characters, but rather by the demands of the narrative.
For me mindfulness is like building a house, so the next time the tsunami that is depression comes I'll have a structure in place to resist it.
I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.
It's the gravity that shapes the large scale structure of the universe, even though it is the weakest of four categories of forces
Man's external form, marvellously constructed, is not much as compared with the divine soul that dwells inside that structure.
