Narrans Quotes & Sayings

A man doesn't want to be rejected. We're really quite sensitive.
'Sensitive?' She laughed, her head on one side. 'Sensitive egos you mean. Never met a man who didn't have one of those. — Helene Young

Technically, our name, to those who speak science, is Homo sapiens - wise person. But we have been described in many other ways. Homo narrans, juridicus, ludens, diaspora: we are storytelling, legal, game-playing, scattered people, too. True but incomplete. That old phrase has the secret. We are all, have always been, will always be, Homo vorago aperientis: person before whom opens a vast & awesome hole. — China Mieville

You don't know if the actors are going to have chemistry until you actually start filming. They can get along, they can be friends for years, they can be hilarious as people, but you don't know if it'll actually work until the cameras start rolling. — Anne Fletcher

all these intellectual complications make me sick, disgust me - all this philosophy that uncovers the beast in man, and then seeks to save him, excuse him — Luigi Pirandello

The question to ask is: do we view Scripture as stories to imaginatively live into or do we view Scripture as prescriptions for how to live? — Wendy Vanderwal-Gritter

Rejection hurts so much because we take it as a damning judgement passed not merely on our physical appeal but on our entire selves, and by extension (at this stage we're crying into our pillow, as something by Bach or Leonard Cohen plays on the stereo) on our very right to exist. 2. — Alain De Botton

PATTY: Hannah, what happened to me was awful, and it happened a long time ago, but I try not to dwell on it. It's with me, is who I am, but I won't allow it to shape me. — Sam Crescent

Don't lament over your lost misfortunes. Move on. — Lailah Gifty Akita

What are they all doing there? Throwing a hellacious slumber party?" when no one said anything, I added, "Get it? Hellacious? Because they're all ... Forget it. — Rachel Hawkins

To the heads of the new Islamic State, their God was money and power on earth. — Kenneth Eade

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. — John Dewey

The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens ('wise man'). In any case it's an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdom being one of our least evident features. In reality, we are Pan narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee. — Terry Pratchett

You know that men can love forever. Please belive that my love could never end. — Jane Austen

All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish. — Aldo Leopold

While Jews and Christians both agree on many religious issues, we disagree, and believe each other profoundly wrong, about others. — Meir Soloveichik