All Quotes

Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government.
‐‐ Ulrich Beck

Nonfiction filmmakers were afflicted by two problems: one technical, the other spiritual. Technically, they did not have the equipment to do the sort of work I had in mind. Spiritually, they didn't care about the work because they'd been mistrained.
‐‐ Robert Drew

Nonfiction is both easier and harder to write than fiction. It's easier because the facts are already laid out before you, and there is already a narrative arc. What makes it harder is that you are not free to use your imagination and creativity to fill in any missing gaps within the story.
‐‐ Amy Bloom

Nonfiction is more personal for me. It's more personal in that it's more direct, and actually it's always been more direct, even when I first started doing pieces.
‐‐ Joan Didion

Nonfiction is never going to die.
‐‐ Tom Wolfe

Nonfiction means that our stories are as true and accurate as possible. Readers expect - demand - diligence.
‐‐ Lee Gutkind

Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
‐‐ Barbara Kingsolver

Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear.
‐‐ Ellen Hopkins

Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.
‐‐ Rick Moody

Nonfiction writers are the packhorses of literature. We're meant to carry the story. If we can make it up and down the mountain by a reliable if not scenic route, we have delivered. Technique is optional.
‐‐ Stacy Schiff

Nonni's Biscotti Bites fit perfectly in my camera bag for a spontaneous break between photo shoots.
‐‐ Nigel Barker

Nonprofits are the intermediaries between generosity and social change.
‐‐ Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
‐‐ E. M. Forster

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.
‐‐ George Santayana

Nontraditional students often have the misconception that aid is intended only for high school students entering college. Luckily, that's not the case.
‐‐ Jean Chatzky

Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.
‐‐ Leonard Mlodinow

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
‐‐ Joan Baez

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.
‐‐ Nelson Mandela

Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.
‐‐ Malcolm X

Nonviolence is pretty ballsy, pretty advanced weaponry.
‐‐ Ava DuVernay

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence worked in Serbia, and it can work in other countries seeking their freedom.
‐‐ Janine di Giovanni

Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.
‐‐ Barbara Deming

Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
‐‐ Barbara Deming

Nooooooo... favorite film, that's like asking if you have a favorite kid!
‐‐ Sylvia Sidney

Nope, I don't enjoy work generally. Not because I'm lazy; it's just all so stressful and worrying.
‐‐ Rowan Atkinson

Nope, no sex scandals yet. But I am open to offers!
‐‐ John Cusack

Nor bigots who but one way see, through blinkers of authority.
‐‐ Matthew Green

Nor can the Apostle mean that Eve only sinned; or that she only was Deceived, for if Adam sinned willfully and knowingly, he became the greater Transgressor.
‐‐ Mary Astell

Nor do I think that any other nation than this of Wales, nor any other language, whatever may hereafter come to pass, shall on the day of severe examination before the Supreme Judge, answer for this corner of the earth.
‐‐ Giraldus Cambrensis

Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic character.
‐‐ Andrew Coyle Bradley

Nor, in our own country, must we fail to take notice of the establishment of School Boards.
‐‐ James Payn

Nor in truth, can Forreign Trade subsist without the Home Trade, both being connected together.
‐‐ Dudley North

Nor is the suffering limited to children in developing countries.
‐‐ Carol Bellamy

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
‐‐ John Denham

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
‐‐ Khalil Gibran

Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.
‐‐ Peter DeFazio

Nor should we exclude the possibility that Islamic terrorism may begin to make common cause with Western political extremists of the far Left and far Right.
‐‐ Richard Perle

Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.
‐‐ Matthew Simpson

Nora Roberts, Stephen King, Lee Child and George R. R. Martin write wildly different books. Their writing, plotting and styles have little or nothing in common. But they all write books and characters that readers find appealing.
‐‐ M. J. Rose

Norah Jones is a breath of fresh air. Norah Jones can sing and play. She's got some talent. I was totally ecstatic that that girl got noticed, because she's wonderful.
‐‐ David Crosby

Norm Smith personally came and signed me up to the Melbourne Football Club. The fact that I then played cricket for Melbourne Cricket Club - the footy club didn't like it that much.
‐‐ Max Walker

Norma Bates is insanely crazy, but you can't help but love her.
‐‐ Taissa Farmiga

Normal birth to me should not be numb from the waist down and waiting for the doctor to tell you to push. There's a reason we feel it. There's a reason we need to feel it.
‐‐ Ricki Lake

'Normal Heart' was my most transcendent moment as an actor.
‐‐ Ellen Barkin

Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.
‐‐ Seth Godin

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.
‐‐ Ellen Goodman

'Normal' is not clinical, it's not autobiographical, and I don't claim to be objective. It's strictly my perceptions and thoughts about the people that I met and the stories that I heard. It was never meant to be an academic work.
‐‐ Amy Bloom

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
‐‐ Jodie Foster