Fictionalization Quotes & Sayings

There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of dramatization and fictionalization. You have to do that to make a good song. — Norah Jones

Studying the universe engages us in something bigger than ourselves. Science tries to describe, in terms we can only grasp intuitively, things that are beyond our intuition ... all we can hope for is that our physical descriptions, like a song or a good painting, are a faithful evocation of some ineffable truth. — Guy Consolmagno

For the first 99.99999 per cent of our history as organisms, we were in the same ancestral line as chimpanzees. Virtually nothing is known about the prehistory of chimpanzees, but whatever they were, we were. Then, about seven million years ago, something major happened. A group of new beings emerged from the tropical forests of Africa and began to move about on the open savanna. These — Bill Bryson

The nature of Scandinavians is that they don't talk so much, there will be these dark secrets, and most things are under-communicated. — Jo Nesbo

India lends itself well to fictionalization, but ultimately, it all depends on the writer's imagination. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Love and Hate: both are four-lettered and both involve passion. And sometimes when love turns into hate, passion grows murderous. — Natalya Vorobyova

Wherefore all these things are but the names which mortals
have given, believing them to be true — Parmenides

The people of the world have a fixed destiny. But the spiritually developed receive what is "not" in their destiny. — Idries Shah

Tris," Tobias says, crouching next to me. His face is pale, almost yellow.
There is too much I want to say. The first thing that comes out is, "Beatrice."
He laughs weakly.
"Beatrice," he amends, and touches his lips to mine. I curl my fingers into his shirt. — Veronica Roth

What has bothered and angered radical Muslims is that I'm a non-Muslim writing anything at all about Islam. But this is fiction, and I don't think Islam is above criticism or fictionalization any more so than Judaism, Christianity, Mormonism or Hinduism is. — Brad Thor

I don't want to be constantly associated with tragedy. I think I'd like to be associated with the idea of 'hope'. — George Chuvalo

The difference between a good defensive team and a bad defensive team is as little as three possessions — Brad Stevens

I hope we will come together as a nation and do whatever it takes to keep guns away from people who have no business with them. — Hillary Clinton

Why not celebrate those who want to marry and bring up a family? — Ian McKellen

To create loving men, we must love males. Loving maleness is different from praising and rewarding males for living up to sexist-defined notions of male identity. Caring about men because of what they do for us is not the same as loving males for simply being. When we love maleness, we extend our love whether males are performing or not. Performance is different from simply being. In patriarchal culture males are not allowed simply to be who they are and to glory in their unique identity. Their value is always determined by what they do. In an anti-patriarchal culture males do not have to prove their value and worth. They know from birth that simply being gives them value, the right to be cherished and loved. — Bell Hooks