Jonathan Nolan Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that.
-
I have decided in 2020 to run for president.
-
I'd been going to the Louvre since 1951. I thought I knew Paris and the French, but I didn't really. You know how easy it is to make friends when you are traveling. People are curious about you, you are curious about them. But you never really make friends that way. After the Louvre, I discovered that I have friends now because I have enemies.
-
Although my mother didn't necessarily approve of teenage girls wearing heels, she made an exception for me when I was 14 because she didn't want me to be self-conscious about my height - or to slouch.
-
There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.
-
I was born free.
-
Yes, exercise is the catalyst. That's what makes everything happen: your digestion, your elimination, your sex life, your skin, hair, everything about you depends on circulation. And how do you increase circulation?
-
Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any.
-
I think the real needs in the country are for cultural renewal.
-
Many ingredients are called 'earthy,' but none comes as close to fitting the bill as buckwheat. I'm mildly obsessed with the stuff.
-
Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
-
It must be so hard trying to figure yourself out in this industry. Justin Bieber has hit rock-bottom with everyone watching him; that is just so tough.
-
We burden ourselves with useless ideas which we carelessly take as facts. Instead of letting reality come as a new surprise, we insist that it conform to our habitual concepts, and thus, we spoil everything.
-
A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.
-
Politics is a game of compromise.
-
It's the nicest birthday I've ever had. You've made a happy man very old.
-
For the purposes of poetry a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
-
It's unrealistic not to be able to indulge.
-
Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.
-
In 1956, the success of the Hammer films kick-started my career. That immediately gave me a name and a face to go with it. I will always be grateful to Hammer for that.
-
I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour. But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment.
-
Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.
-
None of us like violence in the real world, but we're fascinated with it on screen.
