John Nolan Quotes

#1. There came to port last Sunday night the queerest little craft, without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked - and laughed. It seemed so curious that she should cross the unknown water, and moor herself within my room - my daughter! O my daughter!

George Washington Cable

#2. Coming from a large family makes you feel protected - you have friends and allies.

Paul McGann

#3. I guess, when you get down to it, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand about everywhere except in an airplane cockpit.

Robert Breault

#4. Christopher Nolan's astounding third Batman feature, 'The Dark Knight Rises,' represents the true maturation of the superhero movie - and provides the key to understanding the bottomless craving moviegoers have for these films, 34 years after the Christopher Reeve Superman gave birth to the genre.

John Podhoretz

#5. You have to know composition to be a good improviser.

Roscoe Mitchell

#6. My dad worked all sorts of jobs when I was growing up and finally ended up as a surveyor; my mum delivers meals to old folk around where we live. We didn't have much money when I was growing up, but I had a very happy childhood.

Michelle Dockery

#7. In this world of dreams, drifting off still more; and once again speaking and dreaming of dreams. Just let it be.

Ryokan

#8. The only french sentence he could call to mind was a passage which had caused him some trouble in class the previous day. So far as he had been able to judge the translation was: 'the gentleman who wears one green hat approaches himself all of a sudden.

Anthony Buckeridge

#9. I'm a very loyal person and I allowed myself to be defined as somebody who was doing Gordon's bidding. I should have fought back harder to define myself at an earlier stage.

Ed Balls

#10. It's okay to be afraid, it means you have something to live for.

Alicia D'Aversa

#11. What people adore about superhero movies is the signal quality of the Christopher Nolan films - their complete lack of irony when it comes to the portrayal of heroism and the need for heroes to confront evil.

John Podhoretz

#12. Oddly enough, the very considerations that had made marriage impossible for him were mirrored in my own being: a rabidly independent nature, an impatience with lesser minds, total unconventionality, and the horror of being saddled with someone who would need cosseting and protection - the

Laurie R. King

#13. Sometimes I would have to take my glasses off simply so the world would smudge and recede for a moment and cease to seem so relentlessly present tense.

Hanya Yanagihara

#14. My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis.

Anish Kapoor

#15. It's been years, decades, since a president has lost a major trade initiative. That would be bad headlines.

Gwen Ifill

#16. I read somewhere that if you're going through Hell, keep going. It's the only way past it.

Belle Aurora

#17. If we can accept the fact that we create illness, it follows naturally that we can also create wellness. And therein lies a most empowering nugget of truth and healing.

Liberty Forrest