Reynolds Price Quotes

A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens-second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter. Millions survive without love or home, almost none in silence; the opposite of silence leads quickly to narrative, and the sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives, from the small accounts of our day's events to the vast incommunicable constructs of psychopaths.

Reynolds Price

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• Our passion is our strength.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Passion
  • Strength

• I try to physically and mentally immerse myself in whatever it is I am doing. That is good for me as an artist. I am always looking for that part that I have never done before, which makes it all the more difficult, because people want to hire you for what theyve already seen you do.

  

  W. Earl Brown
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Win
  • Fight
  • Pleasure

• The most important thing for me is the tone, the feeling, the pace. But why I'm doing this is not very clear to me. It's much more of an instinctual thing than an analytical process.

  

  Eran Kolirin
  • Important
  • Process
  • Clear

• My working life is me doing what I want to do. This is that. I've made movies that people don't go to see.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • People
  • Movies
  • Working Life

• What are people searching for in life? God. In the christian scriptures, it says 'Be still and know you are God.' What is this? You are peace, compassion, truth, Love, freedom. Real love – the ability to love yourself so much that you forgive everything and you are at peace with yourself like a mother loves a child, not trying to be someone.

  

  Ajahn Brahm
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• There's a reason for everything, you said, and though it's a mystery to me now, I know it won't always be so.

  

  Ben Sherwood
  • Reason
  • Mystery

• When we work for Christ out of obligation, it feels like work. But when we truly love Christ, our work is a manifestation of that love, and it feels like love.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Feels
  • Christ
  • Obligation

• I have way too much going on, as usual, but fortunately it's all good stuff. I'm not complaining.

  

  Brad Listi
  • Stuff
  • Complaining

• FABLEHAVEN: None who enter will leave unchanged. Trespassers will be turned to stone.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Stone

• Maybe there's a universe out there - happening now - where we end up together and when I close my eyes at night, I'm not dreaming the way a normal person would. Instead I'm seeing flashes of our lives in the multiverse. They're not simple dreams because I miss you, right? They're scientific, anachronistic visions.

  

  Gaby Dunn
  • Dream
  • Simple
  • Universe

• People always ask me, how do you do everything you do?

  

  Susan Lucci
  • People
  • Ask
  • You Do

• Does knowledge rest on construction in the sense that it only functions because the knowing system is operatively closed, therefore: because it can maintain no operative contact with the outside world; and because it therefore remains dependent, for everything that it constructs, on its own distinction between self-reference and allo-reference?

  

  Niklas Luhmann
  • Knowledge
  • System
  • Contact

• Jessica Simpson is the youth ambassador for Operation Smile, and an episode of The Apprentice featured a team managing a charity concert she put on. Donald Trump came on stage and pledged a donation.

  

  Roma Downey
  • Concerts
  • Episodes
  • Donation

• A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens-second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter. Millions survive without love or home, almost none in silence; the opposite of silence leads quickly to narrative, and the sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives, from the small accounts of our day's events to the vast incommunicable constructs of psychopaths.

  

  Reynolds Price
  • Dominant
  • Constructs
  • Nourishment