Film Noir Narrative Quotes & Sayings

The personality is determined by a variety of interventions that enter the head like big symbolic flags in the conquered soil which seldom knows its defeat. — Andrew Durbin

We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

The older I grow the more I become certain that it makes no difference what words we use to tell the same truths. — Marion Zimmer Bradley

My research methods were extremely advanced. I Googled vinegar. — E.J. Stevens

It's not my cause in life to be filthy rich. Being comfortable is enough. — Daniel Craig

Mal did as he was told without a backward glance at any of them. Tom did see him hold up his middle finger as he left.
He guessed it was kind of like his gang sign. Or his message to the entire world. — S.E. Jakes

The failures are not due to any injustice, but to an inner defect. It is always caused by the person himself. Yes, I know, you think you are doing an act of justice. But they will only suck you dry, wear out your energy, nourish themselves on your ideas. After being the most compassionate man in the world, I say to you today: Let the weak ones die, let them commit suicide. — Anais Nin

I've never done anything by halves. — Coco Chanel

A lot of men these days are insecure in front of women, because women have become so strong. Men are very frustrated because they don't know what women want. — Pernille Fischer Christensen

In narrative cinema, a certain terminology has already been established: 'film noir,' 'Western,' even 'Spaghetti Western.' When we say 'film noir' we know what we are talking about. But in non-narrative cinema, we are a little bit lost. So sometimes, the only way to make us understand what we are talking about is to use the term 'avant-garde.' — Jonas Mekas

Is the pen really mightier than the sword? I suppose that depends on how sharp the pen is, and the strength of the warrior wielding it. — Max Hawthorne

True love meant sharing odd food cravings. I so believed that. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

The great rich nation had made triumphant war, suffered enough for poignancy but not enough for bitterness - hence the carnival, the feasting, the triumph. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I am a bit evangelical, I know, but performance-capture is still misunderstood. — Andy Serkis

I want to love Lo without people telling me that our love is too much. — Becca Ritchie

Our political vagueness divides men, it does not fuse them. — G.K. Chesterton