"We used to look up at the sky……" — Jonathan Nolan
"We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars, now we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt."
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41 Quotes by Jonathan Nolan
Jonathan Nolan has 41 quotes on this site.
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Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots.
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We are the only instrument for understanding the universe. We have to ground it in human beings.
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I was struck by - Einstein's a fascinating figure who didn't have any instruments that he used, he didn't use…
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Even if you're not a parent, you have parents and you've been in those situations where there's a certain kind…
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Mankind's expectations have to be greater than ourselves and that the further out there we go, the more we find…
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I remember when I was a kid my first real confrontation with space travel was when the Challenger exploded and…
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I think that we, as human beings, always need to conquer our fears and reach beyond our grasp and I…
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One of my first experiences with the space program was with the memorial that was built for the Challenger. When…
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I'm hoping that the suspension of the space program is just that, a suspension, and that it's not the final…
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You get to a certain moment where you realize all those humans who landed on the moon did so in…
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We're going to leave this planet at some point further than we have, we're going to go beyond the moon,…
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I thought it would be an enormous amount of fun to make a movie that heads out into space, which…
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More Dirt Quotes
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one of 587 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
— Margaret Atwood
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The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is…
— Alfred Austin
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I cannot abide anyone treating another human being like a piece of dirt, whatever the context.
— Jo Brand
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'Dirt Road Diaries,' in my mind, is a perfect country guy song. It speaks to the hard-working guy, and I'm…
— Luke Bryan
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I don't keep diaries anymore; They're quite incriminating. I just keep all the dirt road diaries in my head.
— Luke Bryan
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I'm sort of a Walter Mitty. I got fewer brain cells than most people, so when I got friendly with…
— James Caan
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Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve. One man,…
— Kirk Cameron
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I like owning dirt. You know, I spent a lot of time broke when I moved to California. So deep…
— George Clooney
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Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a…
— Chuck Close
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I've always believed that if you don't stay moving, they will throw dirt on you.
— Paul Anka
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Paul never developed a negative attitude. He picked his bloody body up out of the dirt and went back into…
— John Hagee
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Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
— Jack Nicklaus
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