Narration Quotes
33 quotes
"...you're either gonna spend your life fucking pussy, or taking it to church."
"Replicants are bioengineered humans, designed by Tyrell Corporation for use off-world. Their enhanced strength made them ideal slave labor. After a series of violent rebellions, their manufacture became prohibited and Tyrell Corp went bankrupt. The collapse of ecosystems in the mid 2020s led to the rise of industrialist Niander Wallace, whose mastery of synthetic farming averted famine. Wallace acquired the remains of Tyrell Corp and created a new line of replicants who obey. Many older model replicants--NEXUS 8s with open-ended lifespans--survived. They are hunted down and "Retired" Those that hunt them still go by the name...Blade Runner."
"Since we were all born into a time when airplanes already existed,"
"[In ancient times], traveling from one distant place to another"
"In ancient times, we rarely traveled more than 20 miles from where we were born."
"When we mastered the sea,"
"[Referring to steam transport] Instead of harnessing power,"
"Airplanes liberated us from the ground."
"The network of airplanes is practically invisible,"
"When we enter an airport, we're entering a portal to the planet."
"We bridged the gap that once"
"[Referring to the ] Part plane, part boat:"
"In the age of airplanes,"
"Aviation's influence is all around us,"
"Although not everything in our homes is flown in,"
"When we work together and combine our discoveries."
"We're truly living in a time of science fiction."
"If we couldn't fly, we probably wouldn't go."
"We tend to romanticize the past"
"In the world we've made, everything is connected,"
"I love my love with a b because she is peculiar."
"I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and that it is a natural thing because when one is emerging from adolescence, which is really when one first begins writing one feels that one would not have been one emerging from adolescence if there had not been a beginning and a middle and an ending to anything."
"It is the human habit to think in centuries from a grandparent to a grandchild because it just does take about a hundred years for things to cease to have the same meaning as they did before,"
"Dry your tears, woman, the boy will be found. Nobody can do him anything…” Gradually, the tears began to dry from Etusi’s eyes, thanks to Okokpujie’s words, a mighty force that swung the entire village to action. Pg.38"
"We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear."
"Gimmerton chapel bells were still ringing and the full, mellow flow of the beck in the valley came soothingly on the ear. It was a sweet substitute for the yet absent murmur of the summer foliage, which drowned that music about the Grange when the trees were in leaf."
"Understand and challenge your personal narrative. Narratives become choices and actions — which become your life."
Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
"The starting point to freedom is to begin questioning the cultural narrative you have been sold."
Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
"The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick, a calendar, you have to calculate how much time has passed between you and the facts, the emotions to be narrated."
"You should author the narration of your life and organization. If you don't, someone will, and you may not like it."
Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
"A director's dream? No, Bollywood reality in 1995.Business is booming, but cliché's are passée. A different sort of breeze-fresh, young-is unsettling fatigued conventions."
"This is the squalid, or moving, part of the story, and the scene changes. The people change, too. I'm still around, but from here on in, for reasons I'm not at liberty to disclose, I've disguised myself so cunningly that even the cleverest reader will fail to recognize me."
"This land has brought forth numerous children, favouring both the bad and the good ones. It is not the land that is responsible for the people’s hardships, it is the people themselves. Pg.8"