“We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them.”

In the library I discovered that you could learn by following your nose. And I learned that a book was as close to a living thing as you could get without being one.

Every child needs a safe place to fall – a place where he or she can explore things without worrying about failure and judgment.

Once a kid learns a library is hers, to use as she wants, the world opens up., I’ve seen it happen. It happened to me.

The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.

If just the presence of Tidal causes other companies to have better pay structure or to pay more attention to it moving forward, then we’ve been successful in one way. So we don’t really view them as competitors. As the tide rises, all the boats rise.

We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.

But they do not battle: they are bound together by a strong alliance, by the common faith “in the validity of Maxwell’s or Boltzmann’s equations,” and by the common acceptance of Darwinism and the molecular structure of DNA.

What you notice in French nurseries is just how calm they are. All of their classes are structured and led by teachers. It’s a requirement.

Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?

A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.

I went straight from high school to ‘Gossip Girl,’ and both were very structured, scheduled environments, so I never had freedom to explore and carve my own path.