#din

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please. ↗

— Louis Nizer

#always #books #counselors #disinterested #hand

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness. ↗

— Alfred Nobel

#hope #nakedness #nature #truth #veil

I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#am #any #constantly #difficult #easy

Japan's alliance with the U.S. will only grow in importance amid the increasingly difficult security situation surrounding our country, thus I think it is necessary to keep the marines in Okinawa, a geographically strategic location from the standpoint of maintaining deterrence. ↗

— Yoshihiko Noda

#amid #country #deterrence #difficult #geographically

I think everyday people on the street who have never been affiliated with the tea party movement are alarmed with the spending and the debt that we have. ↗

— Kristi Noem

#alarmed #been #debt #everyday #everyday people

I have always been a huge fan of Ridley Scott and certainly when I was a kid. 'Alien,' 'Blade Runner' just blew me away because they created these extraordinary worlds that were just completely immersive. I was also an enormous Stanley Kubrick fan for similar reasons. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#also #always #away #because #been

I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#considered #extraordinary #i #lucky #lucky person

My approach with actors is to try and give them whatever it is they need from me. Direction to me is about listening and responding and realizing how much they need to know from me and how much they have figured out for themselves, really. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

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One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

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For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything. ↗

— Kenneth Noland

#context #everything #key #me #understanding