Famous Quotes & Sayings

A. S. Byatt

Narrative is one of the best intoxicants or tranquilisers.

Alan Moore

The comics medium has some unusual features that do make it very different, in that it's combining a verbal narrative with a visual one that allows for much richer possibilities of transmitting information.

Djuna Barnes

I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it.

David Shields

Nonfiction, qua label, is nothing more or less than a very flexible (easily breakable) frame that allows you to pull the thing away from narrative and toward contemplation, which is all I've ever wanted.

David Shields

Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.

David Shields

I'm not interested in collage as the refuge of the composition-ally disabled. I'm interested in collage as (to be honest) an evolution beyond narrative.

Carter Burwell

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

Ajay Naidu

I hear music as narrative.

Brian Eno

My shows are not narratives.

Malcolm McDowell

If you dunk your head in cold water, you can't stay under for more than five seconds. I mean, that's it.

Alamgir Hashmi

Love necessitates eagerness / To shake / January's cold hand / Not avert the eye / And look what comes / To love / Before its making.

Jessica Lowndes

L.A. style is more laid back than London, mainly because it's always sunny. In London, the cold means you get to rock layers. And you can't go wrong with a trench coat!

Bob McDavitt

So here comes another wet cold southerly for Wellington, similar to the one late last week.

Unknown

May you have warm words on a cold evening, A full moon on a dark night, And the road downhill all the way to your door.

Irish Blessings

May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night and a smooth road all the way to your door.

Ian Shepherdson

One steep drop in housing starts does not make a downward trend, especially in a month which was very wet in the West and very cold in the Northeast. Still, the data are consistent with other signs of a softening housing market, most notably the drop in homebuilders' confidence. What really matters, though, is whether sales will fall fast enough to turn a softening into a collapse.

Scott Meyers

Obviously, we're rising because of the situation in Nigeria , but it also looks like the coldest period of the year is coming up. We're looking at a 10-day spell of cold weather starting Saturday.

Edward Heath

Ocean racing is like standing under a cold shower tearing up ?5 notes.

Ted Sarandos

'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal.

Brandon Marshall

I wouldn’t change any of my reactions

Hayao Miyazaki

I never read reviews. I'm not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators.

Jack Canfield

There is no right reaction. There is only your reaction.

Kevin Bailey

There's a wide variety of reactions in trauma situations, so I would say, yes, it could be,

Michael Aspel

People's reactions can be surprising but, if you have overwhelming news, I suppose the only thing you can do is just look, because you're stunned.

Noam Chomsky

The European reaction to Obama is a European delusion.

Leon Trotsky

Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.

G-Eazy

The biggest thing for me is the new music. I'm playing a lot of new music that is not released yet on my tours. Seeing the reaction to that is super inspiring.