All Quotes

No wonder we have a lot of violence in Rio: the corrupt and violent policemen meet the violent criminals in the streets. What else is going to happen?
‐‐ Jose Padilha

No word is absolutely wrong or dirty or insulting. It all depends upon context and intention.
‐‐ Janet Jackson

'No words - action' was the lesson my mother taught me: as artists, we have the privilege of holding a mirror to the world, to engage, to question, to bring beauty to a complex universe.
‐‐ Mira Nair

No words can describe the personal liberation that heading seaward bestows upon me. In this aquatic realm, no man or woman is subject to the petty decrees of social bureaucracy.
‐‐ Paul Watson

No work-family balance will ever fully take hold if the social conditions that might make it possible - men who are willing to share parenting and housework, communities that value work in the home as highly as work on the job, and policymakers and elected officials who are prepared to demand family-friendly reforms - remain out of reach.
‐‐ Arlie Russell Hochschild

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
‐‐ Alan Watts

No world championship has been easy for me.
‐‐ Katie Taylor

No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.
‐‐ Knut Hamsun

No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses a kind of helplessness to passion quivering between the poles of good and evil.
‐‐ Roger Rosenblatt

No writer can really sustain two huge - I hate the word 'franchises.'
‐‐ Anthony Horowitz

No writer for the press, however humble, is free from the burden of keeping his purpose high and his integrity white.
‐‐ John Boyle O'Reilly

No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendency, not of one line, but by the tendency of all.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
‐‐ Irwin Shaw

No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.
‐‐ Alfred de Vigny

No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone, but is beyond control: luck.
‐‐ John Jakes

No writing effort is ever wasted. At the very least, it's practice, and a writer never knows when he or she might usefully cannibalize an earlier effort for something new.
‐‐ Therese Fowler

No, writing musicals is the hardest thing in the world. And it was really funny, because I remember when the South Park movie came out, there were some critics that said, 'Well it's obvious that in order to get it to be 90 minutes they filled some time with music.'
‐‐ Trey Parker

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
‐‐ Carrie Chapman Catt

No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.
‐‐ Brendan Behan

No, you can't call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote.
‐‐ Gary Ackerman

No, you don't have to start your play with a premise. You can start with a character or an incident, or even a simple thought. This thought or incident grows, and the story slowly unfolds itself. You have time to find your premise in the mass of your material later. The important thing is to find it.
‐‐ Lajos Egri

No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
‐‐ Ogden Nash

No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not.
‐‐ John Milius

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.
‐‐ Star Jones

No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.
‐‐ Mara Wilson

No young doctor nowadays can hope for work as exciting and rewarding.
‐‐ Alice Hamilton

Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.
‐‐ Orson Pratt

'Noah' doesn't merely get the story wrong; like all Biblical adaptations, it's bound to do that (although some aspects of the film are out and out ridiculous). It gets the morality of the story wrong, and in the process turns God into Gaia and morality into radical deep green environmentalism.
‐‐ Ben Shapiro

'Noah,' for me, wasn't a decision about taking on the Bible. It was about working with Darren Aronofsky.
‐‐ Douglas Booth

'Noah' is about a man whose mission is to obliterate Earth's past and godfather its future. Replacing the word 'God' with 'Creator' and taking other scriptural liberties, the movie risks confusing those who don't take the Bible literally and alienating those who do.
‐‐ Richard Corliss

'Noah' is an insult to Bible-believing Christians, an insult to the character of Noah and, most of all, an insult to the God of the Bible. As a result, I believe Hollywood will have a much harder time in marketing future biblically-themed movies to Christians.
‐‐ Ken Ham

Noah walked with God; he didn't only preach righteousness, he acted it. He went through water and didn't melt. He breasted the current of the popular opinion of his day, scorning alike the hatred and ridicule of the scoffers who mocked at the thought of there being but one way of salvation.
‐‐ Charles Studd

Noam Chomsky has a book, which I read for the first time when I was in Spain, called 'Fear of Democracy'. There is your answer. Fear of democracy. In Honduras, they had a sham democracy. It was run by elites, what was called a liberal democracy, but in reality was a false democracy.
‐‐ Hugo Chavez

Nobel prizes are very special prizes, and it would be great to get one.
‐‐ Craig Venter

Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong.
‐‐ Alva Myrdal

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
‐‐ Edmund Burke

Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.
‐‐ Riccardo Muti

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem.
‐‐ Jane Porter

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
‐‐ Carlo Goldoni

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
‐‐ Tacitus

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
‐‐ Dodie Smith

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
‐‐ Blaise Pascal

Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
‐‐ Maria Montessori

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
‐‐ Frank Lloyd Wright

Nobody, absolutely nobody, straps a bomb on their body because they were recruited from the Internet. It takes an enormous amount of personal face-to-face contact and time in order to recruit a young person into the cause of jihad.
‐‐ Reza Aslan

Nobody actually played tennis in my family.
‐‐ Novak Djokovic

Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
‐‐ Carl Jung

Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.
‐‐ Sam Snead