The best Quotes by Nicolas Roeg

The best Quotes by Nicolas Roeg

Nicolas Jack Roeg (15 August 1928 – 23 November 2018) was an English film director and cinematographer.

I realized I've spent all my life creating a past.

I like the probability of the impossible.

I've always thought there was something very marvelous and magical about mirrors, and that they are connected to memory as well.

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It is strange with how little notice, good, bad, or indifferent, a man may live and die in London.

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1

If you're curious, London's an amazing place.

David Bailey

1

I've often thought a blind man could find his way through London simply by gauging the changes in innuendo: mild through Trafalgar Square, less veiled towards the river.

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I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.

Boris Johnson

I don't miss London much. I find it crowded, vast and difficult to get around. Cabs are incredibly expensive.

John Cleese

London. The beating heart of England.

Enola Holmes in Enola Holmes

England is my home. London is my home. New York feels like, if I have to spend a year living in an unfamiliar city, this is a pretty lovely one to spend a year in, but I will be going home at the end of it, certainly.

Daniel Radcliffe

Fashion needs fresh blood, and London is the most creative place for that.

Donatella Versace

Fashion Creativity London

Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.

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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

Samuel Johnson

I love to come to L.A. to visit, and then I like to come to rainy old London because it's home.

Daisy Ridley

Los Angeles London

In London I feel free; nobody bothers anyone and everyone is free to express themselves.

Manolo Blahnik

There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

Vivienne Westwood

The best creative no longer has to originate in Chicago or London; it will be coming from Stockholm, Tokyo, and Seoul as well.

Richard Edelman

Stockholm London Chicago Seoul Tokyo

Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.

Pain / Nagato in Naruto

21

Life Pain Hurting Falling down

The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.

Pat in Silver Linings

36

Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder.

Stephenie Meyer in Twilight

19

Life Death Suicide

Well you can't never let anything happen to him. Then nothing would ever happen to him!

Dory in Finding Nemo

17

Life Risk Safety

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain.

16

Life Optimism Dancing Rain Positive Quotes

If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?

Cassandra Clare in The Infernal Devices

15

Life Friendship Solitude & Loneliness

The future is easy because it doesn't exist; but the past is painful because it lives forever.

Maybe the past is like an anchor holding us back. Maybe you have to let go of who you were, to become who you will be.

Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 5 Episode 1

Oh yes. The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.

Rafiki in The Lion King

29

Experience Past

Timon: "You gotta put your past behind ya. Look kid, bad things happen, and you can't do anything about it, right?"
Simba: "Right."
Timon: "Wrong!"

Timon in The Lion King

18

The past is the past, but if you're overanalyzing or trying to repeat it, you're gonna get stuck.

Chris Evans

The past never stops, it reviews the present.

Siegfried Lenz

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the Wind

12

I'm Starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.

John Green in Paper Towns

9

The past is like a broken mirror, as you piece it together you cut yourself. Your image keeps shifting and you change with it.

Max Payne in Max Payne

6

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

2

Books Foolishness Mirrors

Who can gaze into the mirror without becoming evil? The mirror does not reflect evil, but creates it.

Motoko Kusanagi in Ghost in the Shell - 2: Innocence

1

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

1

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

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There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

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