Ray McKinnon Quotes
Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things based on a true story can't.Ray McKinnon
Quotes to Explore
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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
Walt Whitman -
Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.
Barry Ritholtz -
I think the reason teenage fiction is so popular with adults is that adults hunger for narrative just as badly as teenagers do.
Patrick Ness -
Many of the stranger but most frequently quoted scenes in 'Billy Madison' were unplanned.
Tamra Davis -
I'm always diplomatic when heavily outnumbered by armed strangers.
S. M. Stirling -
Narrative living is the beginning of rhetoric.
N.D. Wilson
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The imagery is getting a little more enigmatic. I'd like to think that it's getting a little more evocative without being more narrative.
Martin Mull -
I can't believe we got grades in gym class. I've never used anything I learned in there. "All right, I'm standing in front of a room full of strangers. Based on what I learned in gym class, I will throw a red ball at a fat guy."
Jim Gaffigan -
The owner of a local cannabis café told reporters George Clooney was no stranger there.
George Clooney -
Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil.
Norman Vincent Peale -
Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.
Thomas A. Edison -
Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.
Virginia Woolf
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Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of Nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could be influenced by a prayer, i.e. by a wish addressed to a Supernatural Being.
Albert Einstein -
Relations between pure and applied mathematicians are based on trust and understanding. Namely, pure mathematicians do not trust applied mathematicians, and applied mathematicians do not understand pure mathematicians.
Albert Einstein -
Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago, If thou but think'st him wronged, and mak'st his ear A stranger to thy thoughts.
William Shakespeare -
For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
Lord Byron -
Based on the lyrics I think it's not as highbrow academic.
Dennis Lyxzén AC4 -
No, it's not terrible. There's fantastic news. Come to my place, you'll see some of it. Go investigate the American Tree Farm System. There are 65,000 members that are absolutely fantastic, exemplary stewards of the land.
Charles Alfred Leavell The Allman Brothers Band
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It was getting to be the end of the day. The sun was somehow setting again. A man could stand in the street and tell a perfect stranger a story of such incomprehensible evil that it really seemed as if the sun should stop shining altogether. But there was no alteration in Heaven, no sign that the cries of children had been heard.
Edith Hahn Beer -
I am the biggest klutz on set. I honestly don't think I have ever been as klutzy as when I'm on set. People call me 'Grace' ironically because I'm not graceful. It's ridiculous.
Laura Marano -
I think I've proven with my career that I can play a wide variety of characters. Yet, I still get typecast as the crazy slob guy. That's how it always works.
Judah Friedlander -
The only way to get what you're worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.
Seth Godin -
Buena Vista Social Club Presents: Omara Portuondo.
Omara Portuondo Buena Vista Social Club -
Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things based on a true story can't.
Ray McKinnon