Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.

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.

Ajay Naidu

I hear music as narrative.

Brian Eno

My shows are not narratives.

Jeff Chang

At that point I had a real 30-year narrative to sink my teeth into.

Satya Pradhuman

The point is, we're not out of the woods yet,

Craig Martin

The point is to get it right, not necessarily to get it done early.

Livan Hernandez

The point is, it's now or never. You try to make the playoffs.

Jim Clarke

We are at the point where we have succeeded in accomplishing what we wanted to do.

Tom Renney

We have to get to the point where he thinks he could play, and I don't think we're at that point.

Michael Ondaatje

You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel.

Ian Rosenberger

Watch for someone else to screw up, and then quietly point it out to everyone else,

Ben Nelson

We're going to run like we're 10 points down,

Dave Garza

We're going to put some big points on the board.

Michael Strahan

They don't tell you how to be on TV - they put the camera on you, and they turn it on, and you sink or swim.

J. Taylor

It was sentimental and exciting. It was starting to sink in. I wanted to slow things down a bit.

Bret Easton Ellis

History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad.

Lorrie Moore

It was not miserable - often I did not miss her at all. But there was sometimes a quick, sinking ache when I walked in the door and saw she was not there. Twice, however, I'd felt the same sinking feeling when she was.

Ivan Turgenev

Only one thing bothered me: at this very moment, as they say, of inexplicable bliss there would be a sinking feeling at the pit of my stomach and my abdomen would be assailed by a melancholy, cold shivering. In the end I couldn't abide such happiness and ran away.

Kirsten Prout

There's nothing better than sinking into my feather pillows after a hard day's work.

Jordan Foreman

I mean, it won't really sink in for a while.

Johannes Tauler

Everything depends on this: a fathomless sinking into a fathomless nothingness.

Robyn Davidson

I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.

Charles Spurgeon

The most effective sermons are those which make opposers of the Gospel bite their lips and gnash their teeth.

Edna O'Brien

If the Holy Communion touched my teeth, I thought that was a mortal sin

Carly Patterson

They shouldn't have to worry about toothaches or their teeth hurting. There are more things to worry about than your teeth hurting.

Dave Barry

The porpoises said hello to Molly. She told them all her teeth were green.

Carl Sandburg

The woman named Tomorrow sits with a hairpin in her teeth and takes her time

Janet Frame

I like to see life with its teeth out.

Thomas Fuller

Better a tooth out than always aching.

Stephen Jay Gould

An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth.

Christopher McDougall

human urine is both nutrient-rich and an effective tooth whitener