Nicolas Winding Refn Quotes
Look at the birth of anything; it's always more violent than anything you could ever imagine.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't want to be a bust.
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All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.
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I was seeing this girl recently and used to call her up saying I missed her. I can't help it after a few drinks!
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I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.
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The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights.
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It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
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I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.
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'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.
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The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.
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I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.
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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.
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What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man can achieve with Positive Mental Attitude. It is a form of self-suggestion. It is a self-motivator to success. When it becomes a part of you, you dare to aim higher.
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When you see a woman wearing McQueen, there’s a certain hardness to the clothes that makes her look powerful. It kind of fends people off.
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There is always one person in the office that you want to whip their ass! If you don't know who it is, it is probably you.
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I've said consistently that I always reserve the right, in conjunction with a broader international effort, to prevent genocide or any wholesale slaughter than might happen inside of Iraq or anyplace else.
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My house has always been like everyone's house. You walk in, you're a part of the family, no matter who you are, what celebrity status you are, everyone is treated the same - with love from my mom.
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Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you put into every sentence an overflow of meaning, and you create in every sentence as many resonances and double meanings and ambiguities as you can possibly pack in there, so that people can read it again and get something new each time.
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How could sufferings be relieved through purification? To know the Path is to get lost at the ford. Indeed, sickness comes from worldly love And poverty begins with the pursuit of greed.
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I can imagine there is going to come a time when someone will do 13 hours of a story without breaks.
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No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that what has been written latest is always the more correct; that what is written later on is an improvement on what was written previously; and that every change means progress.
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Look at the birth of anything; it's always more violent than anything you could ever imagine.
