Metanarratives Postmodernism Quotes & Sayings

Often the art in a video game is like glorified Thomas Kinkade, but some of it is genuinely enchanting and compelling. — Tom Bissell

I love the 3D revolution. I love the technology today that continues to push the envelope, continues break the new ground, and continues to raise the bar. — Dwayne Johnson

A perfectly happy marriage? There is no such thing. There are strong marriages that can survive problems, but happiness is such a brief condition, interrupted by difficulties and plain, boring routine. — Ursula Hegi

This guy was a real Pscyho' Mr. Levy said.
'To you character is a psychosis, integrity is a complex. I've heard it all before. — John Kennedy Toole

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized. — Albert Einstein

She's no angel.
He's no saint. — Elvis Costello

Dost thou love picking meat? Or wouldst thou see
A man in the clouds, and have him speak to thee? — John Bunyan

People usually take decades to sort out their view of the universe, if they bother to sort at all. I did my sorting during one freakish summer in which i was ambushed by science, fame and suggestions of the divine. — Jim Lynch

I've experienced love and ambition and desire in my life, but never in the same way as in a family. — Claire Denis

Anne Barton is a delightful new voice in historical romance! Once She Was Tempted is a charming read, with characters who are easy to love
a wounded earl and a determined heroine whose heart won't be denied. — Tessa Dare

Or isn't virtue in tension with wealth, as though each were lying in the scale of a balance, always inclining in opposite directions? — Plato

It's hard to get personal films off the ground, and it's hard developing them. — Jodie Foster

The forms have value only so far as they are expressions of the life within. If they have ceased to express life, crush them out without mercy. — Swami Vivekananda

Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives. — Jean-Francois Lyotard

What is it? For what do you scheme? Ethine's death would weigh on you and the stain of her blood would seep into your skin"
"Do you know what they wish for when they give you the Unseelie crown?" Roiben's tone was soft, like he was telling a secret. Kaye could barely catch his words. "That you be made of ice. What makes you think it matters what I feel? What makes you think I feel anything at all? — Holly Black

I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality. — Natalie Dormer