#sf

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied. ↗

— Alfred Nobel

#good #i #i am #ideas #only

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day. ↗

— Alex Noble

#am #been #day #essence #good

But 'Memento' was so successful, such a huge cult hit, almost on the scale of a large film. If that had happened, with all the acclaim, before the next job, I'd have found it very difficult to figure out what to do next. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#almost #before #cult #difficult #figure

But in the back of my mind I've always looked to the biggest-scale Hollywood movies. Because to me the most satisfying experience is of watching a movie, if it's done really well. And so that aspiration is always it for me, if I have the opportunity to do it. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#aspiration #back #because #done #experience

I made 'Batman' the way I made every other film, and I've done it to my own satisfaction - because the film, truly, is exactly the way I wanted it to be. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#because #done #every #exactly #film

Successful people have a social responsibility to make the world a better place and not just take from it. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#better place #just #make #people #place

Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#curtain #deep #deep south #early #effect

Growing up in Israel, how can I not be an optimist? When you remember what Israel was 50 years ago and you see Israel now, one of the most successful countries in the world, stable, democratic, with an enormously stable economy despite everything that has happened in the global economy in the last few years, how can I not be an optimist? ↗

— Ehud Olmert

#countries #democratic #despite #economy #enormously

The military operation in Lebanon was the most successful military operation in recent Israeli history. Many in Israel don't recognise that. ↗

— Ehud Olmert

#israel #israeli #lebanon #many #military

It's time to start really writing some stuff, and I really wanted to write some stuff in the vein of the original Misfits, and this was really the first step in that direction. ↗

— Jerry Only

#first #first step #i #misfits #original