Book Of Nod Quotes

#1. Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.

Jonathan Swift

#2. But you know how it is with fathers and sons. We can't say what we want to say. We think a nod is a paragraph and a sentence is a book, and, in the end, all that's important is left unspoken.

Peter Kirby

#3. Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.

Stanley Kubrick

#4. I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything ... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.

Orson Welles

#5. HEADACHE: THE MOST USEFUL PAIN IN THE WORLD

Woods Hutchinson

#6. Beauty is not a concept. It is the animal joy of the mind.

Peter Schjeldahl

#7. Being injured is quite an awkward situation to be in mentally. Physically, it's quite good to have a bit of a rest, but mentally it's hell.

Magnus Backstedt

#8. I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever get to playing God, to suddenly produce these fully formed creatures. It is a bit odd. Other aspects you work out more - you rework sentences, you rework imagery. But not characters.

Kate Atkinson

#9. Just remember, you've got to take yourself with you. I prefer get over got.

Brian Spellman

#10. As a child, she'd been a great reader, finding the ultimate escape within the pages of a story. She learned that opening a book was like opening a set of double doors - the next step would take her inside to Neverland or Nod, Sunnybrook Farm or Mulberry Street.

Susan Wiggs

#11. Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune.
[Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.]

Horace