Polar Express Quotes

#1. Are you crazy? Why did you tell her I was pregnant?"
"It sounded nicer than the truth, okay?"
"What, that you have round-trip tickets on the Bi-Polar Express?

Inez Kelley

#2. There's something known as the Uncanny Valley where things look a little too real and you're not quite sure what you're looking at. It becomes weird like it did in 'The Polar Express,' where the eyes seem so realistic, and yet you know it's animated.

Nolan North

#3. The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write ... Once I realized the train was going to the North Pole, finding the story seemed less like a creative effort than an act of recollection. I felt, like the storys narrator, that I was remembering something, not making it up.

Chris Van Allsburg

#4. 'The Polar Express' began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods. I asked myself, 'What if a boy gets on that train? Where does he go?'

Chris Van Allsburg

#5. Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film.

Leonard Maltin

#6. The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

Chris Van Allsburg

#7. Sharing our personal stories makes us grateful for experiencing the radiance of being alive. Writing our personal stories documenting our vivid encounters with the larger world and examining our own time-tested ideas shapes the conception of our own being.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#8. Toto was not gray; he was a little black dog, with long silky hair and small black eyes that twinkled merrily on either side of his funny, wee nose.

L. Frank Baum

#9. Mindy felt a jolt of attraction roughly akin to having someone seize her intestines and twist.

Jennifer Egan

#10. Trust is not negotiable

Deanna Kimberly Burrell

#11. Who cares about elves? If they spent more time being men, instead of acting like fairies dancin' an' prancin' in the woods, they might know how to protect themselves!

Tiger Hebert

#12. I'm not here to tell you that I am God, but that You are, and that you're no more or less so than any neighbor, regardless of where. What tomorrow is there, other than the world our grandchildren will share everywhere?

Anonymous

#13. The German Luftwaffe always fought without any reserves. This is also the reason why we have pilots with extremely high numbers of victories.

Adolf Galland

#14. This is Teenage madness.
Trapped in a room knowing there's more outside.
Trapped listening to a teacher talk about Hemingway as if each sentence and word had mythical importance.
Trapped knowing she is in the room with me.

Travis Thrasher

#15. Pueblo investment properties, and he had mortgaged the ranch to raise added investment funds for still more business concerns. At the time, with the economy booming

Matt Braun