Jonathan Nolan Quotes
We are the only instrument for understanding the universe. We have to ground it in human beings.
Quotes to Explore
-
Darling, when you're as old as I am, you cherish the very few musicals that have come your way that you know are great classics. You become their guardian.
-
You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.
-
I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.
-
We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
-
Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
-
I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.
-
We filmed 'Expelled' in Santa Clarita at an all-girl's school. There were twelve hour days.
-
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
-
I'm not that interested in people.
-
My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.
-
I am very shy with people I don't know.
-
Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.
-
Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
-
Random events often come like the raisins in a box of cereal - in groups, streaks, and clusters. And although Fortune is fair in potentialities, she is not fair in outcomes.
-
Being a wife-mother and doing a job, it's the toughest damn thing in the world. But we want it.
-
The hardest battle you’re ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.
-
The married woman as family provider beside the man, often also in place of the man, but always however subservient to the man's dominion - this is the worst form of woman slavery our time has created.
-
Immigration policy is a complicated issue. Or perhaps one should say immigration policies are complicated, since we have many different immigration laws and practices which interact in complex ways.
-
For me there is no reason why to go up in weight class, because when you go up in weight class you have to fight bigger guys - then you have to train against bigger guys. The guys are not better, they're heavier, but it means you have more chance to get hurt.
-
Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny.
-
Overcoming attachment does not mean becoming cold and indifferent. On the contrary, it means learning to have relaxed control over our mind through understanding the real causes of happiness and fulfillment, and this enables us to enjoy life more and suffer less.
-
So the freshness lives on in a lemon, in the sweet-smelling house of the rind, the proportions, arcane and acerb.
-
It's remarkable how we go on year after year, doing the same old things. We get tired and bored, and ask when they'll come for us
-
We are the only instrument for understanding the universe. We have to ground it in human beings.
