Norlon Quotes & Sayings

With 'Brick' there was the Dashiell Hammett influence, and with 'Brothers Bloom' there was a really strong Fellini influence - both those movies wore that on their sleeve. — Rian Johnson

There is room in the halls of pleasure for a large and lordly train, but one by one we must all file on through the narrow aisles of pain. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I have not given it [synagogue] up. Christianity is the completion of the synagogue, for the synagogue was a promise, and Christianity is the fulfillment of that promise. — Israel Zolli

You feel different every day of your life. You just have to create your own space to survive, personally and professionally. — Jerry Cantrell

At 1.30 she left the hospital to do some shopping. Both men were sound asleep. Gentle afternoon sunlight flooded the room, and I felt as though I might drift off at any moment perching on my stool. Yellow and white chrysanthemums in a vase on the table by the window reminded people it was autumn. In the air floated the sweet smell of boiled fish left over from lunch. The nurses continued to clip-clop up and down the hall, talking to each other in clear, penetrating voices. They would peep into the room now and then and flash me a smile when they saw that both patients were sleeping. I wished I had something to read, but there were no books or magazines or newspapers in the room, just a calendar on the wall. — Haruki Murakami

James: I think people pretty much determine their fates. I think people choose their lives.
Lucy: I don't know. I think sometimes things happen to people that are beyond their control. Things that they don't want to happen.
James: I know what you're saying. Sometimes random shit happens, but for the most part, people are where they are in life because they chose to be there. — Kristen Tracy

I have lost confidence in myself. — Robert Louis Stevenson

It was a sense of privilege and mute wonder, as though he'd witnessed one of those small, everyday miracles of spring. Like a licked-clean foal taking its first steps on wobbly legs. Or a new butterfly pushing scrunched, damp wings from a chrysalis. — Tessa Dare

Usually, Marilyn Norton loved the hot weather, but she was having a tough time with it, nine months pregnant, with her due date in two days. She was expecting her second child, another boy, and he was going to be a big one. She could hardly move in the heat, and her ankles and feet were so swollen that all she had been able to get her feet into were rubber flip-flops. She was wearing huge white shorts that were too tight on her now, and a white T-shirt of her husband's that outlined her belly. She had nothing left to wear that still fit, but the baby would arrive soon. She was just glad that she had made it to the first day of school with Billy. He had been nervous about his new school, and she wanted to be there with him. — Danielle Steel

Feeling her against me, I was reminded of desire. Would that always be the case now - not desire, but only the reminder of it? — Graham Greene

Corner Seat
Suspended in a moving night
The face in the reflection train
Looks at first sight as self-assured
As your own face - But look again:
Windows between you and the world
Keep out the cold, keep out the fright;
Then why does your reflection seem
So lonely in the moving night? — Louis MacNeice