Best Nicky Wire Quotes

#1. The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.

Bobby Bowden

#2. I was never enthusiastic about being somebody who was supposed to be silent about being a member of something.

Pete Seeger

#3. the difficulties of making temperature experiments [on fully grown alligators] would be great and can be best left to the imagination.")

Brian Switek

#4. The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#5. It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.

Publilius Syrus

#6. A blank page of paper and a pen is the greatest invention its so exciting to be confronted by possibility.

Nicky Wire

#7. When we are capable of living in the moment free from the tyranny of "shoulds," free from the nagging sensation that this moment isn't right, we will have peaceful hearts.

Joan Z. Borysenko

#8. In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

Herman Melville

#9. I do consider myself to be something of a pretentious wanker.

Nicky Wire

#10. The only good thing about America is that you killed John Lennon.

Nicky Wire

#11. Even she hair itself rough and wiry; long black knotty locks springing from she scalp and corkscrewing all the way down she back ...
The only thing soft about Tan-Tan is she big molasses-brown eyes that could look on you, and your heart would beat time ...

Nalo Hopkinson

#12. There are a lot of people who pretend to have moral ethics and they talk from both sides of their mouth.

John Assaraf

#13. We all decided that from the start, me and Richey can't write music but we can write lyrics and look pretty tarty.

Nicky Wire

#14. In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives the same day that terrorists struck again.

Jim Sensenbrenner

#15. I think solitude is a really positive thing. I cherish solitude immensely. In today's society, there's so much pressure to communicate, eat out, be friends with people. Why can't you read a book on your own? Why have you got to have a book club?

Nicky Wire

#16. If literature or music can make you think or become aware, then it's done something. That's what we've always wanted to do, just ignite sparks in people's minds. We can't offer a manifesto of how to make your life better.

Nicky Wire

#17. It's sometimes easier to do the impossible than to do the embarrassing.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#18. Knowing that a paradox is required for life as we know it to exist allows me to give up trying constantly to understand it and instead just feel it and enjoy it.

Richard Brancatisano

#19. Oh! Worm! Seth pounced, squealing when his teeth sank into his
own tail. Ow! That hurt!

Eden Winters

#20. I haven't seen it. I don't really need Michael Moore to tell me about September 11th.

Rudy Giuliani

#21. The mind feasts on what it focuses on. What consumes my thinking will be the making or the breaking of my identity.

Lysa TerKeurst