John Nichols Quotes

#1. I loved all movies, literally. I certainly loved 'Shane' and 'Roxie Hart.' Later on, when I was less of a kid, I loved 'L'Avventura' and 'Persona' and all Fellini movies and like everybody else I loved John Ford. Then and now, I loved Preston Sturges, maybe above anyone.

Mike Nichols

#2. In the heart of the slaughterhouse
always
enough room to nourish the awe.

John Nichols

#3. The notes of the symphony of lives, desires, and revenge suddenly swelled into a chorus of generations, blasting through Etta's mind.

Alexandra Bracken

#4. On Saturday mornings, because I'm surfing a lot for the part in 'John From Cincinnati,' I'll get up about 5:30 A.M .and go to Malibu and surf. There's something very therapeutic and healing about it.

Austin Nichols

#5. What is this, the Spanish Inquisition or something?" [Drew Nichols]
"Yeah, and you didn't expect it, did you? [John Bell]

Shawn Goodwin

#6. Some of the most unkind,judgmental people I've ever known go to church every Sunday and read the Bible.
I don't know how some people are able to
disassociate their own cruelty and shortcomings from their religious obligations and convictions, but many are able to do that.

Judith McNaught

#7. I really think happiness is very closely aligned with success, and may almost be an interchangeable synonym. Happiness (like success) also comes from doing what we feel called to do in life; however, it's also obvious no one can experience one without the other.

Donna Fargo

#8. Photographs offer more than decisive moments. They are not alone, they add and subtract and change with time. They are metaphors for our lives ... Even a static photograph can change in the blink of a day or decade.

Edmundo Desnoes

#9. If the radical right had its way we'd all be church-going polyester heterosexuals driving around in white Cadillacs eating meatloaf and wax beans while mammoth bulldozers leveled all our forests and even hummingbirds were extinct.
Charley, The Voice of the Butterfly

John Nichols

#10. I never thought I'd find peace until I give peace a place in my life!

LaFreddie B

#11. Listen cousin, the way things are supposed to work out, one day the struggles of all you screwed up little underdogs will forge a permanent rainbow that'll encircle this entire earth, I should live so long.

John Nichols

#12. You know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they're all volunteers.

Benjamin Walker

#13. There are no new stressful thoughts. They're all recycled.

Byron Katie