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

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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
  • Me
  • Desire
  • Speak

• 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
  • Story
  • Economics
  • Narrative

• 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
  • Think
  • Popular
  • Hunger

• Many of the stranger but most frequently quoted scenes in 'Billy Madison' were unplanned.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Most
  • Stranger
  • Quoted

• Missing Persons was based in Los Angeles.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Missing
  • Los Angeles
  • Based

• I'm always diplomatic when heavily outnumbered by armed strangers.

  

  S. M. Stirling
  • Stranger
  • Diplomacy
  • Diplomatic

• Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Fate
  • Narrative
  • Tvs

• Narrative living is the beginning of rhetoric.

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • Beginning
  • Narrative
  • Rhetoric

• 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
  • Narrative
  • Imagery
  • Evocative

• I think so many women allow themselves to be defined by somebody else's narrative.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Women
  • Think
  • Somebody

• It doesn't matter if you're religious or not. Does anything make you feel more uncomfortable than some stranger going, I'd like to talk to you about Jesus?

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Jesus
  • Religious
  • Stranger

• The whole idea of comedy, there is nothing normal about going up on stage to make strangers laugh. But I'm also not an exhibitionist like other comics. I'm not up there talking about masturbating.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Comedy
  • Ideas
  • Laughing

• 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
  • Believe
  • Guy
  • Funny

• The owner of a local cannabis café told reporters George Clooney was no stranger there.

  

  George Clooney
  • Stranger
  • Weed
  • Owners

• 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
  • Believe
  • Philosophy
  • Optimism

• Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Success
  • Imagination
  • Based

• 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
  • World
  • Luck
  • Stranger

• 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
  • Idea
  • Research
  • Laws

• A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Remind
  • Based

• Based on the lyrics I think it's not as highbrow academic.

  

  Dennis Lyxzén AC4
  • Lyrics
  • Based
  • Highbrow

• 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
  • Terrible
  • Fantastic
  • Investigate

• I have many times essayed thoroughly to investigate the ten commandments, but at the very outset, "I am the Lord thy God," I stuck fast; that very one word, I, put me to a non-plus. He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Lord
  • Preacher
  • Commandments

• In politics there are no principles, just opportunities.

  

  Bill Press
  • Politics
  • Opportunities
  • Principles

• 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
  • Stranger
  • Narrative
  • Based