The Polar Express Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. '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

#4. 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

#5. There are many of us now. Enough to be called a people in ourselves and not merely a mistake.

N.K. Jemisin

#6. 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

#7. I know how absurd things can get. I've had years where I've had questionable things going on in my life.

Geoff Rickly

#8. It is possible to have the administration of the sacraments and the preaching of the Word of God and to have it be simply a human exercise.

Dallas Willard

#9. A general who allows himself to be decisively defeated in an extended mountain position deserves to be court-martialled.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#10. It's important to remember there is a 20 year US. occupation of Haiti from 1915 to 1934. That represents a major transition in the history of the country and kind of reshaping partly in terms of just their direction of their attention.

Laurent Dubois

#11. My grandmother was a psychiatrist and had shelves full of medical books - I was constantly sneaking looks at some of those. I was fascinated by the descriptions of illnesses and diseases.

Jennifer McMahon

#12. Once drawing the coach across the road, with the mutinous intent of taking it back to Blackheath. Reins and whip and coachman and guard, however, in combination, had read that article of war

Charles Dickens

#13. Doing the thing you are scared of is much harder than not being afraid of anything. It is easy to be brave. It is not so easy to be scared and do a brave thing anyway.

Elizabeth Wein

#14. When we face death, really face it, we realize that only love matters.

Marty Rubin

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

Leonard Maltin

#16. What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart's sacred lands?

Aberjhani