Noratan Quotes & Sayings

All the world talks, knowledge or information, takes you nowhere unless it's applied into life. It's only the experience, which allows you to see, beyond the present state. — Roshan Sharma

I was just so afraid ... So afraid of being seen through, of being caught, that I missed the point. I missed the most important fact of it all, which is quite simply ... they want to believe in you up there ... The audience wants to forget who's under the mask. But they don't want to forget because of obfuscation ... no, they want to forget it's you by virtue of the passion of your performance. They want to be transported ... Transported to a world where bigger truths are at work, and anything
anything
can happen. A world where the impossible is possible. Batman can be someone like that for them, Bruce. Someone who defies every damn rule of logic that governs their lives. — Scott Snyder

A 3K word story might well be done in some caffeine-and-nicotine-fuelled 36 hour session, and at the end of it, there'll be a few passes of editing required, but I basically have a polished draft. — Hal Duncan

Effective communication is built on the cement of trust. And trust is based on trustworthiness, not politics. — Stephen Covey

We don't keep things locked in our hard drives; instead, we let services like Dropbox store them for us, just as a bank stores most of our money. — Shawn DuBravac

The major motivation theories by which most men live can lead them only to depression and cynicism. — Abraham Maslow

Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides. — Walter Scott

You cannot consider it as success if anyone else has done it too. — Giomyr Faith Requierme

I'm afraid that the act of writing is so scary and anxiety-filled that I never laugh at all. In fact, when people tell me that such and such a scene or story is comical, I tend to gape. I did not intend comedy - ever, as far as I know. It's probably all a mistake. I am essentially a lugubrious writer. Ha ha! — Cynthia Ozick

So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air. — Pharrell Williams

Thanks to the human heart by which we live,
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and its fears,
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. — William Wordsworth

Bureaucrats do not, as a whole, like to make decisions. Decisions require a degree of courage and responsibility, qualities in short supply among public servants on both sides of the Great Divide. — Kati Marton

Move towards your dreams inch by inch or suffer the pain of regret. — Matthew Donnelly

I realized that you have to deal with a lot of baggage when you write about your own era, that it's harder to separate what is actually compelling from what is interesting simply because it mattered to you at the time. — Christopher Castellani

My thing in high school was being the tallest kid in class. Always. I was always the tallest kid in class. — Geena Davis