All Quotes

Noir focuses on the criminal mind, not a whodunit: more why they did it and will they get away with it. The abnormal psychology is what fascinates me rather than the puzzle-solving aspect.
‐‐ Allan Guthrie

Noir has always shown that greed and chaos are as close as the company we work for or the politicians we vote for.
‐‐ Margo Jefferson

Noir is a court of human relations, and some crimes are beyond legal restitution.
‐‐ Margo Jefferson

Noir is dead for me because historically, I think it's a simple view. I've taken it as far as it can go. I think I've expanded on it a great deal, taken it further than any other American novelist.
‐‐ James Ellroy

Noir was a brainchild of the United States. And most of the creators of classic noir - novelists and screenwriters, directors and cameramen - were men. Women were their mysterious, sometimes villainous, always seductive objects of desire.
‐‐ Margo Jefferson

Noise is a buffer, more effective than cubicles or booth walls.
‐‐ Margaret Heffernan

Noise is a parasite. Anything noisy is poorly designed.
‐‐ Raymond Loewy

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
‐‐ Mark Twain

Noises and smells, those can bring back powerful memories. I remember when I was going to school one Fourth of July, and there were a lot of fireworks going off. I knew that I was in Richmond. I knew that I was a college student. But I thought people were shooting at me.
‐‐ Kevin Powers

Noises have generally been thought of as indistinct, but this is not true.
‐‐ Pierre Schaeffer

Nokia and Research in Motion needed a modern operating system. They could have bought Palm or Android before Google did, but they didn't. Today, it's probably too late, and at the time they would have been criticized for overpaying, but as they say - shift happens.
‐‐ Marc Andreessen

Nolan has the strangest affect on people. You know, I think there's something very sad and little boy about him, but at the same time the way he goes about everything is so awkward and obnoxious. He can never say the right thing, you know? And I think if he just didn't try so hard and calmed down, people might actually like him a bit more!
‐‐ Gabriel Mann

Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.
‐‐ Joe Garagiola

Nominally, there is one executive for every eight federal employees, a ratio that would bankrupt many private industries.
‐‐ Martin L. Gross

Nominations come and go. It is not going to happen to you every year, and I am very well aware of that.
‐‐ Lee Ann Womack

Non-bank financial institutions provide credit that is essential to U.S. businesses and consumers.
‐‐ Henry Paulson

Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another.
‐‐ Richard Perle

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

Non-crazy gun advocates - the ones who aren't stockpiling in preparation for a zombie invasion - don't like the idea of expanding background checks because they think it'll be a lot more paperwork. And it probably would make it more difficult to sell guns at, say, a flea market.
‐‐ Gail Collins

Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.
‐‐ Natan Sharansky

Non-disclosure in the Internet Age is quickly perceived as a breach of trust. Government, corporations and each of us as individuals must recalibrate how we live and share our lives appropriate to the information now available and the expectations of others.
‐‐ Simon Mainwaring

Non-fiction about personal subjects is going to attract more user comments than a foreign correspondent writing from Syria - unfortunately.
‐‐ Meghan Daum

Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is.
‐‐ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Non-fiction books have helped me enormously with lots of my books.
‐‐ Gillian Cross

Non-figurative art is created by establishing a dynamic rhythm of determinate mutual relations which excludes the formation of any particular form.
‐‐ Piet Mondrian

Non-human primates spend hours a day grooming each other. And with humans, touching is also important. It's a way to form bonds and connect in modern society. But you can also speed up the use of conscious purposes once you're aware of that, and it can be manipulated.
‐‐ Leonard Mlodinow

Non-Muslims in Saudi Arabia can only celebrate Valentine's Day behind closed doors. Apparently, this has led to a huge black market for flowers and wrapping paper.
‐‐ John Niven

Non-profits must become deeply engaged in the ways that their donor communities are using social technology.
‐‐ Simon Mainwaring

Non-proliferation will only work if all states are willing to cooperate, and that will only happen if all feel they are being treated fairly.
‐‐ John Bruton

Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all.
‐‐ Linus Torvalds

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence is not glamorous, and you don't see the effects right away.
‐‐ Julia Bacha

Non-violence is the article of faith.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
‐‐ Thomas A. Edison

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violent extremism is essentially the increase of intolerant and bigoted demands made by groups seeking to dominate society.
‐‐ Maajid Nawaz

Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
‐‐ Earl Wilson

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
‐‐ Baruch Spinoza

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
‐‐ Charles Spurgeon

None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones.
‐‐ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
‐‐ Benjamin Whichcote

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
‐‐ Charles Caleb Colton

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
‐‐ Bertrand Russell

None but a people advanced to a high state of moral and intellectual excellence are capable in a civilized condition of forming and maintaining free governments, and among those who are so far advanced, very few indeed have had the good fortune to form constitutions capable of endurance.
‐‐ John C. Calhoun