Jimmy Nail Quotes

#1. I toured in Europe first, before I did any touring in the U.S. It was with Jimmy Nail and others.

Deana Carter

#2. To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

Oscar Wilde

#3. I went from being totally unknown to getting stopped every time I went out. I always wanted to be successful, but I have never wanted to become a celebrity. I never, ever, craved that.

Jimmy Nail

#4. Tell Jack that after he finishs saving the universe again, he has to take out the trash in the kitchen."
-Rosalind Kirby, one day in 1971

Mark Evanier

#5. As science went further and further into the external world, they ended up inside the atom where to their surprise they saw consciousness staring them in the face!

Ravi Gomatam

#6. The older I've got, the easier I've found it to accept myself. I think I've finally learnt not to beat myself up so much.

Jimmy Nail

#7. We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast, When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes, And a man with his back to the East.

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

#8. I've had a blessed career, and that has been acknowledged in many ways over the years.

Jimmy Nail

#9. Sure, shit happens we can't control, but that's exactly what it is: shit you can't control. You can't control what it is, or sometimes what it does to you. But like I've told you before, you can control how you feel about it, how you deal with it.

Bobby Adair

#10. Yo, bredren, we be the illest,' went my proclamation. 'We be the dopest,' Anand would follow. 'Our tunes are going to be good,' Nishant would finish with.

Nikesh Shukla

#11. It is important to stress the ways that people are different from each other, because so much of the suffering that we experience in our relationships with other people is caused by the fact that we are blind to their point of view.

Helen Palmer

#12. I've gradually grown more comfortable with who I am and what I am.

Jimmy Nail

#13. The whole fame and fortune thing is addictive.

Jimmy Nail

#14. Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.

Paul McCartney

#15. I find it very hard to play a part, then take it off like a cheap suit and become Mr Normal - Mr. Nice Guy.

Jimmy Nail

#16. I couldn't make sense of things. But then I began the process of civilising myself and trying to become a decent human being. I'm still working on it.

Jimmy Nail

#17. Dream more, learn more, care more, and be more.

Dolly Parton

#18. I haven't got the kind of discipline where I can turn my emotion inside out and then just switch off. It affects me fairly profoundly and I don't like putting myself through that kind of mincer every day.

Jimmy Nail

#19. If you think before you speak the other guy gets his joke in first.

Jimmy Nail

#20. Even now I can't stand being recognized in the street. I just hate it when strangers come up and try to talk to me. I'm pathologically shy.

Jimmy Nail

#21. I was racing through life, utterly confused and angry. I don't know if I was out of control; it was more like I felt frustrated with myself and everything I saw happening around me.

Jimmy Nail

#22. History is a story written by the finger of God.

C.S. Lewis

#23. Bonzo, he pre-cise. He so careful, he piss on a plate and never splash.

Orson Scott Card