Top 100 Nell Quotes
#1. I grew up shopping from farm stands. Dad taught me how to smell a good cantaloupe and thump a watermelon for ripeness.
Nell Newman
#2. Fatherhood surprised him pleasantly. As a male he assumed no unpleasant duties would accrue to him. He would be responsible for teaching the child conversational skills once it reached its teens.
Nell Zink
#3. It didn't occur to me to go into something that didn't have an ethical return for me.
Nell Newman
#4. I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read.
Nell Freudenberger
#5. Her social position at Safeway was better than it was at home.
Nell Zink
#6. She would see that in England, for reasons unknown, a woman can simultaneously be cute as a bug's ear, a serious rose gardener, and a nymphomaniac.
Nell Zink
#7. You can't hold it in forever," Colton said, apropos of nothing. "Yes, I can." I had to. "You'll go crazy. It'll come out, one way or another." "Better crazy than broken." I wasn't sure where that came from, hadn't thought it or meant to say it. "You're not broken. You're hurting.
Jasinda Wilder
#8. But you can't have Nell like you can have other girls. She says she's Southern but she's not on the Grid. She's a different type altogether. Trust me on that one.
Lily King
#9. I have no intention of watching undersized Englishmen perched on horses with matchstick legs race along courses planned to amuse Nell Gwynn.
Gilbert Harding
#10. I used to tell people my father was a plumber, because that would mean we had a normal life.
Nell Newman
#11. Don't be difficult, Denys," Nell chided. "All women like a little flattery from time to time." "What if they didn't? What if they simply liked themselves and no one needed to bend backwards to flatter them? Wouldn't it all be simpler then?
Paula McLain
#12. Clearly, Nell was going crazy. (Well, she certainly had the hair for it.)
Lesley Kagen
#13. I have known many people who were seduced as children by same-sex partners and then spent their teen years being gay, and then found their way back to heterosexuality as adults.
Nell Zink
#14. If somebody says your story is only published because you look nice in the photo, that maybe spurs you on to write.
Nell Freudenberger
#15. So many men, so little parking.
Nell Zink
#16. Books are all the dreams we would most like to have and like dreams they have the power to change consciousness.
Victor Nell
#17. In my old age, I was at last being permitted to make the discovery that lovemaking gets better and better with time, if it's with someone you care for.
Patricia Nell Warren
#18. My background is in biology. Before getting into the family business, I worked at the Predatory Bird Research Group at the University of California at Santa Cruz, fundraising for them.
Nell Newman
#19. When coffee prices fall below production costs, farmers are often forced off their land, and they lose their homes, everything. With fair trade, farmers get a fair price for their harvest with a guaranteed minimum, so they can invest in their crops.
Nell Newman
#20. In places like Germany or France the idea of black-white is not so much black-white but "our people and them," and "them" can be people from the near east like Turks or Muslims or North Africans, all of whom might well be considered white in the United States.
Nell Irvin Painter
#21. I have great expectations for our company; pretzels were just the beginning.
Nell Newman
#22. He didn't understand how sadness came so easily to people. For him it was like a pile of rocks that had to be moved one at a time. Just thinking about it made him tired.
Nell Freudenberger
#23. Nell Armstrong was a demi-god, he succeded travelling to space, after numerous deaths.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#24. The interesting artists I know are the ones doing political work. The most interesting people I know are the people who care about politics.
Nell Zink
#25. Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories.
Nell Freudenberger
#26. You have to put on more faces to pretend who you are.
Nell Carter
#27. It wasn't the degree that counted but what you did with it; he believed that too many Americans wasted time and money on college simply for the sake of a fancy piece of paper.
Nell Freudenberger
#28. The God Factor Saga is a complex blockbuster in genre of This Present Darkness meets Anne of Green Gables. This saga is a romantic, suspenseful, apocalyptic, and inspirational novel tucked into the stories of children who grow up to be men and women with Divine purpose.
J. Nell Brown
#29. mind Nell was writing: - ornamentation of neck, wrists, fingers - paint on face only
Lily King
#30. I'm enough of an anarchist aesthetically, when it comes to art - I want people to be reading my stuff voluntarily. They should be doing it because they want to.
Nell Zink
#31. My social status in the last year has gone from zero to hero.
Nell Zink
#32. But we have to learn to be free. We have to, Nell. Doesn't mean happy all the time, or okay all the time. It's okay not to be okay. I told you that, but I'm relearning it myself. But not being okay doesn't mean you stop living.
Jasinda Wilder
#33. In the end, what affects your life most deeply are things too simple to talk about.
Nell Blaine
#34. Writing a play, you have to retain it all in your head - you need more time. With prose, you can snatch an hour here, an hour there.
Nell Leyshon
#35. People lived their lives, carelessly dropping information as if it were trash. The writer moved behind them like a ragpicker. She cleaned and separated their garbage, culled and collected it.
Nell Freudenberger
#36. I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that made me want to be a writer were novels.
Nell Freudenberger
#38. Meg felt her heart constrict. There was so much she wanted to say to him. Things any normal mother would say, like that a one-handed backhand is more versatile.
Nell Zink
#39. Being a rollerblader for Jesus isn't a dream. It's a goal.
Rae Nell, "Rollerblader for Jesus
Ellen Morris Prewitt
#40. Peggy had not forgotten the intellectual and social ambitions she had started life with only a decade before. Years so weary and routine laden, they seemed like a single year that had repeated itself. She wanted to be creative and self-reliant.
Nell Zink
#41. My life felt so cluttered and obstructed that I could hardly breathe. I inhabited a closed, concentrated world, airless and without exits.
Nell Casey
#42. What we should see is that there is none among us with nothing to give, and that giving is our purpose.
Nell Gavin
#43. What's an adventure? Nell said. The word was written across the page. Then both pages filled with moving pictures of glorious things: girls in armor fighting dragons with
Neal Stephenson
#44. Hip, I murmur, remembering last night, how I lost it completely in a stall at Nell's
my mouth foaming, all I could think about were insects, lots of insects, and running at pigeons, foaming at the mouth and running at pigeons.
Bret Easton Ellis
#45. If you have to be bad, be so bad sympathetic hearers just shake their heads and give up. Nobody
Nell Zink
#46. Even a lie told for a good purpose has a way of perpetuating itself, doesn't it? Look at all the trouble I caused by refusing to tell the truth about Sarah's father.
- Nell
Jane Steen
#47. Whatever I was writing at the time, I knew there was no market for it and never would be, because there's never a market for true art, so my main concern was always to have a job that didn't require me to write or think.
Nell Zink
#48. Education is very important, and the botanical garden is the place to do that. I grew up in a semi-rural area and learned from that being my playground.
Nell Newman
#49. Hoo! You're like a giant mood ring! I wonder if I can make different colors show up depending on where i touch you
- Nell Harris
Katie MacAlister
#50. In the rural South, the only interesting people were the sexual deviants. Everybody else was able to be part of the mainstream, and could find a way somehow.
Nell Zink
#51. If a woman could win love with her body, the world would have no bastards.
Meredith Duran
#52. What's important is the tolerance. If people are not beating other people up, or shooting them for being different, then that's progress. Even if the ideas that go through their head are fodder for novelists.
Nell Zink
#53. Away with the joint-stools, remove the
court-cupboard, look to the plate. Good thou, save
me a piece of marchpane; and, as thou lovest me, let
the porter let in Susan Grindstone and Nell.
Antony, and Potpan!
William Shakespeare
#54. then decided maybe something was wrong with Sundays. He tried Saturday and saw about two thousand
Nell Zink
#55. In a second or two he would get up and join her in the shower he could hear running--consolidate his place with some very passionate seed-sowing and at the same time he would make Nell fall in love with him again.
Michelle Reid
#56. For so long I'd felt that what I'd been trained to do in academic writing was to press my nose to the ground, and here was Nell Stone with her head raised and swiveling in all directions. It was exhilarating and infuriating
Lily King
#57. It's become more readily apparent that we need to be growing our own food and growing more things organically.
Nell Newman
#58. Have you ever read the back of the Newman's Diavolo pasta sauce? Dad on the front is dressed like the devil with a little beard and horns. He says that he sells his soul to the devil for the recipe. It was banned in the South. They thought it was an abomination.
Nell Newman
#59. I appricated that Nell was talking to me like a grown-up, but I had no idea what she meant. Still, I could see that the words flowed together like water over a riverbed.
Silas House
#60. My niche will be to support the environment through the growth of organic agriculture.
Nell Newman
#61. Red sings like summer in the shadows, hot on my tongue ...
Nell Grey
#62. Most women like to fuss around a wound of your past, pick at the thin scab, comfort you after they'd made it sting. Not Nell.
Lily King
#63. This was the power of the story weaver, Nell realized. An ability to conjure color so that all else seemed to fade.
Kate Morton
#64. Love is love, Nell, in whatever form or shape it comes and those of us who have found it must not let anything get in the way.
Jane Green
#65. The CD is dedicated to our dog Nell, who passed away last year.
Julia Barr
#66. the heartrending petty bourgeois piteousness of cucumber sandwiches passed around by accounting majors whose overly colorful bow ties had been expressly chosen to keep them from looking like waiters.
Nell Zink
#67. I'd say it's never a challenge to present white and heteronormative privilege. The hard thing is to write any other way.
Nell Zink
#68. Yahweh instructed, "Don't judge him. Pray for him. Don't criticize him. Honor him. Don't speak against him. Build him up with My Holy Word - the Bible. You were created to love him. Help him fulfill the purposes that I've destined him for.
J. Nell Brown
#69. Love was supposed to be like that, wasn't it? A sort of joyful, barely contained madness ...
Nell Stark
#70. Past presidents entered the room. "Republicans and Democrats getting along?" Jake asked. "Daddy always said the two parties were meant to keep Americans divided while big changes were legislated under the smokescreen of political infighting.
J. Nell Brown
#71. For many people, depression is an abrupt change in an otherwise full and happy life. It emerges suddenly and devastates by its very strangeness and pathology.
Nell Casey
#72. Dan moans behind me, reminding her of the problem. She straightens in fear at the sound of his voice, peers over my shoulder at the chunk of bloody beef that is Dan Sikorsky. She looks slowly from him to me. "What did you do?" I duck my head, embarrassed. "I sort of lost my temper.
Jasinda Wilder
#73. it's the stories we tell ourselves that cause all the problems. If you look reality straight in the eye, you end up a lot less confused.
Nell Zink
#74. I felt like the Empress Theodora. Can I get more orifices? I thought. Is that what she meant in the Historia Arcana - not that three isn't enough, but that the three on offer aren't enough to sustain a marriage?
Nell Zink
#75. It's usually easier for me to begin writing in a character's voice if that person is different from me in some significant way.
Nell Freudenberger
#76. Human beings are just way more complex than they'd like to be. They like to be simple machines. And they'll set up fantasy scenarios where they're simple machines, and get hurt and do things they regret.
Nell Zink
#77. It was a pastiche of public library porn from Irving Stone to Philip Roth.
Nell Zink
#78. I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train.
Nell Freudenberger
#79. Was that what Nell had done, too? Forsaken the life and the family she'd been given, to focus instead on the one she'd been without.
Kate Morton
#80. When the past is hard to explain, it's best to concentrate on the future.
Nell Zink
#81. I said to my teacher, 'I can't be a singer because I'm not pretty enough, and I'm fat.' And she looked at me and said, 'Tell that to Nell Carter, babe.' That changed my life forever!
Beth Ditto
#82. I spent my whole life avoiding the public eye. At these food shows, I'm open quarry again.
Nell Newman
#83. I think all family businesses are difficult and fraught with problems because you have that family relationship to get over. But my dad has been so supportive, we've managed to work around that.
Nell Newman
#84. I want our company to leave a legacy of learning to find the balance between what's good and what's good for you.
Nell Newman
#85. Adopting big-business practices is one thing, and adopting agribusiness practices that would dilute the meaning of 'organic' is another. On the whole, I think we're doing a pretty good job of preserving the integrity of organic foods.
Nell Newman
#86. (It was accepted practice to let your husband camp out in summer near a source of sweet wine and steaks past their sell-by date, but you had to take him back in winter.)
Nell Zink
#87. The library, like the thrift shop, specialised in the leavings of the elderly dead.
Nell Zink
#89. He informed Byrdie that his social engineering ambitions betrayed all the delusions of grandeur that you might expect from the son of a poet.
Nell Zink
#90. Cultivating a generous spirit starts with mindfulness. Mindfulness, simply stated, means paying attention to what is actually happening; it's about what is really going on.
Nell Newman
#92. Nell, I hate to be the one to have to tell you this. But your brother is hot. Like smokin' hot. Honestly, it's kind of impossible to have a vagina and not look." She
Kylie Scott
#93. You'll beat this. I know it doesn't feel like it, but you will. You're a survivor."
"I don't want to survive it."
"I know that, too," Nell had said. "And it's fair enough. But sometimes we don't have a choice ...
Kate Morton
#94. It was like giving a Jewish kid a coffee-table book about Auschwitz.
Nell Zink
#95. I think that the practice of writing every day was what made me remember that writing doesn't have anything to do with publishing books. It can be totally separate and private - a comforting thought.
Nell Freudenberger
#96. It was possible to be struck dumb by all sorts of emotions, not only surprise, and as they drove back toward Pittsford, Amina thought that there ought to be a whole set of words to encompass all those different varieties of silence.
Nell Freudenberger
#97. A man should kiss his wife's navel every day.
Nell Kimball
#98. Barley malt has a really deep, rich taste. A lot of manufacturers have switched over to corn syrup over the years because it's a cheaper sweetener, but it doesn't have the flavor.
Nell Newman
#99. I'm a professional historian. I do my research. I have a PhD. What does my race have to do with it?
Nell Irvin Painter
#100. She simply knew she was about to lose something valuable, and like anybody else, she wanted to take the next logical step to make it her own: She wanted to fuck it.
Nell Zink
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