#hum

For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously. He's not from another planet, or filled with radioactive gunk. I mean, Superman is essentially a god, but Batman is more like Hercules: he's a human being, very flawed, and bridges the divide. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#batman #being #bridges #clearly #divide

If you're older you want to tell stories about the pool of human life and living and to communicate, not only to your age group but to do an age group that can begin to understand, that has enough experience of life far beyond the taste of life. ↗

— Nick Nolte

#age #age group #begin #beyond #communicate

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice. ↗

— Max Nordau

#before #built #citizens #civilization #crimes

If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you're going to limit yourself. That's a very strange way to live. ↗

— Jessye Norman

#air #different #every #every time #find

I knew Rita Hayworth only enough to know that she was just a tender, sensitive, beautiful human being. A lovely person. Very gentle. She would never stand up for her rights. ↗

— Kim Novak

#being #enough #gentle #her #human

In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny. ↗

— Michael Novak

#condition #default #free #history #human

O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee! ↗

— Barry Cornwall

#art #away #cast #dream #hopes

Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does. ↗

— Bill Nye

#about #anything #does #everywhere #human

To me you are a work of art, and I would give you my heart - that's if I had one. ↗

— Morrissey

#love #lyrics #music #art

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything. ↗

— Conor Cruise O'Brien

#beings #human #human beings #human nature #include