Top 100 Nice But Quotes
#1. I adore gardening and plan to take it up properly when I have a bit more time on my hands. Until then, I love pottering in garden centres. I'm totally low maintenance. I don't ask for fancy plants, just basic, long-lasting shrubs that look nice. But I am particular about flowers.
Shilpa Shetty
#2. I'm now wearing suits on stage, so I've kinda stepped up my game as far as image. Which I have to admit is kind of a pain the butt, but it's fun. It gives you a certain amount of confidence to walk on stage and look nice, but I can't say that I'm totally buying into the whole image factor.
Christopher Cross
#3. When you're guest-starring, it's very nice, but you're there very briefly, and it's right there in the name: You're a guest. It's very hard to get a real sense of belonging. With recurring and regular roles, at least you have a sense that this is a home and a steady place.
Zeljko Ivanek
#4. It's sometimes the random people that say things that aren't so nice, but that's okay.
Matt Emmons
#5. I think being a woman is like being Irish ... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.
Iris Murdoch
#6. Serendipity is nice, but hoping for luck and the magic of happenstance shouldn't be an excuse for a lack of proactivity. I had to learn for myself that waiting isn't a life plan.
Karen Finerman
#7. I hardly know her but whenever I see her I lose my mind. I know I should run away, but I can't.
"That's called sexual attraction, honey," Max said. "It's very nice. But be careful. It can burn you bad.
Believe me I know.
Vanda
#8. Food and shelter are very nice, but without stories to hear and tell, we might as well be the walking dead.
Leah Hager Cohen
#9. Money is nice, but the world is full of things that people would never sell. Favors and obligation are worth far, far more.
Patrick Rothfuss
#10. The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you.
Bruce Catton
#11. I grew up very nice. But after college, my father said you're on you own. So I was dead broke for years. So I know what it's - I lived on 600 dollars a month for six years. I know what it's like to be dead broke. I feel bad for people who are struggling now.
Jon Lovitz
#12. That lady has a piano.
It's nice, but it's not the running of rivers
Or the murmuring trees make ..
Who needs a piano?
It's better to have ears
And love Nature.
Alberto Caeiro
#13. Being a talented artist is good, it's nice, but it's not the most important thing. I think being a good storyteller, having a good idea, a good gag, is probably more important than being a great artist.
Bill Plympton
#14. Charity is all very nice,but people want to get something out of it.That's the principle of charity affairs.
Simone De Beauvoir
#15. It really doesn't take brains to be a politician as much as it takes stomach. Both would be nice, but in America we have accepted diminishing returns in this arena.
Rita Mae Brown
#16. Good intentions might sound nice, but it's positive actions that matter.
Tim Fargo
#17. Winning the Rookie of the Year would be nice but making the playoffs would be even nicer for me.
Andrew Bogut
#18. I believe that dreamers who simply imagine things that would be nice but are not possible don't sufficiently appreciate the laws of the universe to understand the true implications of their desires, much less how to achieve them.
Ray Dalio
#19. The power numbers are nice, but I'm most pleased that I've been consistent. Home runs come from having a consistent approach .
Ian Kinsler
#20. We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux.
Miguel De Icaza
#21. I'm friends with Dierks Bentley. Aside from that, I don't really know anybody else in the country music field, really. I've met the Lady Antebellum people and I met Marty Stuart briefly once. He's really nice, but I don't know any of them, really.
Patrick Carney
#22. The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs.
Chantal Kreviazuk
#23. My first on-screen kiss was lame: Nickelodeon. But my first real-life kiss was super cute and nice, but still very awkward. It was with this hot skateboarder with dreadlocks. He was my little Rasta man.
Christian Serratos
#24. Most people in the Tea Party are nice, but that hasn't stopped liberals from hating them.
Ann Coulter
#25. In a very simple sense I want everything that's in a work to be there for the reason that it's needed. It's not an ornamentation. It's not there because I thought it looked nice but because it has to be there.
Paul Cullen
#26. I like to watch Bourdain and Andrew Zimmern, because I like them when they travel. I like Ina Garten, 'The Barefoot Contessa.' Giada is really nice, but I get a little bit bored with just staying in the kitchen.
Debi Mazar
#27. I'm sarcastic and facetious. It's hard to find those people on first encounter. I can be nice, but I don't want nice friends. I want funny, gregarious, sarcastic, and smart friends.
Rachel Bertsche
#28. Justine," Zoe said, "I don't want to curse anyone."
"Of course you don't, you're much too nice. But I don't have that problem.
Lisa Kleypas
#29. Somewhere where people aren't so mad would be nice, but I don't know if there is anywhere like that.
Elliott Smith
#30. Staying alive is nice, but you can't do that forever. It's how you live the life you have while you have it.
Frank E. Peretti
#31. Inspiration is nice, but not until we take action do we move into transformation.
Mary Morrissey
#32. Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.
Jean Anouilh
#33. I'm a horrible control freak. It's awful! I'm nice, but if someone is folding some sheets while I am playing the guitar, I keep one eye on the way that they are folding the sheets.
Juana Molina
#34. Hollywood is just like high school: The popular people love the other popular people. And the thing is, some people aren't nice. Or they are nice, but only to your face, not elsewhere.
Amanda Seyfried
#35. The Oscar for the films, it'd be nice. But I don't make those kind of films, and I don't think that will ever happen.
Robert Altman
#36. L.A., it's nice, but I think of sunshine and people on rollerblades eating sushi. New York, I think of nighttime, I think of Times Square and Broadway and nightlife and the city that never sleeps.
Jimmy Fallon
#37. Success is nice, but it shouldn't be the only reason why you're a musician.
Chester Bennington
#38. There's a fine line between angry and grumpy. Angry isn't nice, but grumpy is funny.
Rick Wakeman
#39. Love is supreme and unconditional. Like is nice, but limited.
Duke Ellington
#40. It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.
Salma Hayek
#41. The uncle and cousin seem nice, but the aunt is a bit of a shock. Whith her hair dyed bright red, she looks like Ronald McDonald's post-menopausal sister. Who has let herself go.
Brian Malloy
#43. Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.
Nancy Pelosi
#44. I'm not such a big star. I am just a little planet. In Spain, people don't put so much attention on the star system. But here in America, I can feel it. Mostly, people are very, very nice. But there are also a bunch of fanatics behind the stars.
Antonio Banderas
#45. To be honest, most of the time you leave the theater, and you're like, 'Well, that was nice, but where did I park?' It doesn't really stick with you.
Joe Carnahan
#46. Steve is nice but he's strictly entry level.
Max Mitchell
#47. I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I loo. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to the gym.
Adele
#48. Luxury is nice, but creativity is nicer.
Lena Dunham
#49. This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it has to be just because we feel they need all this stuff, like gadgets, certain schools, and activities that are nice but aren't really necessary.
Patricia Heaton
#50. I know my parents are really proud of me, and they think I've become successful, so that's nice, but there's still so much I want to achieve in my life.
Teresa Palmer
#51. I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.
Eric Idle
#52. Kissing is like cake. It's nice but you don't always feel like having it.
J. Theron
#53. Friendship is necessary to our well-being - not just nice but necessary. We all hunger for it; it's a universal need.
Susan W. Tanner
#54. I believe that young people wearing hoods, unless they are very young, can be frightening. What are they hiding? Why don't they want to come out into the light with the rest of us? They may be perfectly nice, but the hoods send an uncertain statement.
Roger Ebert
#56. Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here ... is France, and we're in the middle - that's my map of Africa.
Otto Von Bismarck
#58. Be nice wont you?" "I am nice, I'm always nice." "But not too nice. I mean don't make a religion out of it, niceness.
David Nicholls
#59. Experiences are like cherry on the cake. It's nice, but that's not what's going to make a difference to the habit.
Martine Batchelor
#60. A great figure or physique is nice, but it's self-confidence that makes someone really sexy.
Vivica A. Fox
#61. Emotional intelligence does not mean merely "being nice". At strategic moment it may demand not "being nice", but rather, for example, bluntly confronting someone with an uncomfortable but consequential truth they've been avoiding.
Daniel Goleman
#62. I'm a bit of a slag ... Some people don't think it's very nice, but I don't care ... I've got hormones, and sex is there, so why not? Sex is good. Everybody does it, and everybody should!
Robbie Williams
#63. I want to tell him that what he did was nice, but nice is such a silly word for kindness. Anyone could pretend to be nice. What Silas did was innate. Boldfaced kindness.
Colleen Hoover
#64. Getting a tax refund is nice, but having more money year-round is better. If you get a chunk of change from the IRS, you're giving the government an interest-free loan - not something they, or any bank, would ever give you. Instead, change your withholding so you get a little extra in each paycheck.
Jean Chatzky
#65. I thought it must have been scary to be an Apatosaurus because he just wanted to be nice but there was probably a lot of pressure to be mean because he was a dinosaur.
Jesse Eisenberg
#67. I consider myself a good person. And I think people perceive me to be, 'Oh, she's nice,' but being a good person, knowing your strengths and working towards those strengths, and encouraging those around you to do the same, that's a good person.
Miranda Kerr
#68. I feel that we should always be a real friend, always, even to those who chose to be fake. Not because they are nice but because you are.
Rita Zahara
#71. Strategies and formations were nice, but they were nothing if the soldiers didn't know how to handle themselves in battle.
Orson Scott Card
#72. I went to church and couldn't swallow it. The music was nice but I don't belong there.
Alain De Botton
#73. I have a slightly bourgeois upbringing, I guess. My parents paid for me to go to school, which is nice, but I haven't gotten a dime since then. I have no trust fund. I wish I did.
Dean Wareham
#74. I used to go in for Disney auditions, and they'd tell me, 'You're cute and nice but just not funny.'
Gattlin Griffith
#75. Danny DeVito later told me that he knew he wanted me for 'Matilda' the second I walked in the door. I'm not sure if this is true, or if he was just being nice, but I was thrilled when I got it.
Mara Wilson
#76. Courage, determination, and hard work are all very nice, but not so nice as an oil well in the back yard.
Mason Cooley
#77. On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.
J.P. Donleavy
#78. Usually, I would pretend to be nice, but this morning I feel real, like myself. I feel high, almost like I'm tripping, and I couldn't fake nice if I tried.
Paula Hawkins
#80. When people say (nice) things you take them as compliments and it's nice, but it won't help you win your next game. The thing I am trying to keep in mind is that relying on my past performance will not make me win my next game, it'll only get in my way.
Greg Maddux
#81. Fashion is nice, but it's for the fans. If it were up to me, I'd be in a sweat suit!
Gloria Estefan
#82. He was a son of a bitch, too. He played ball in school, and had those fancy-cut muscles the young men have these days. They look real nice, but to me they're like flowers grown in a hothouse that would die if you planted them out in the real world.
Jordan Harper
#83. I'm trying to take all the media attention with a grain of salt. It is nice, but you are never as great as people say you are. And you're never as bad as others say you are.
Kelly Olynyk
#84. Winning a trophy is always nice, but my personal satisfaction comes from reflecting on the passion, motivation, and determination that went into getting me there.
Tommy Hilfiger
#85. In one of the buildings where April lived, the girls befriended the kids who lived upstairs. "At first it was nice; but other times, it just felt like every time we got home, they were knocking on the door. And it stopped having that sort of safe-haven feeling to it.
Bella DePaulo
#86. The sun is nice but it lights things up so much that you can't see very far ... The night time is better. It stretches your soul to the stars.
Fynn
#87. People who try to be nice are false. They're liars. You should never force your behavior to be a certain way. You should just be. Maybe it's not going to be nice, but at least it'll be honest.
Veronica Rossi
#88. People said that he was very nice, but I confess that his utter grotesqueness made me uneasy; perhaps in the same way that the sight of monkeys eating their own excrement turns some people's stomachs. They might not mind so much if monkeys did not- so grotesquely- resemble human beings.
James Baldwin
#89. The reason I am a Christian is not that it is nice, but that it is true.
John Stott
#90. You know, me winning two gold medals, going for a third one, that's nice. But being there with Mark and my sister, and my brother being the coach, it's a dream come true. It's going to be awesome.
Diana Lopez
#91. How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.
Oprah Winfrey
#92. I've been fortunate enough to match up the material I'm producing with the right buyer, the company that will make it and that wants it, and that isn't saying yes to be nice, but is saying yes because they want and need that movie and it's going to be important on their slate.
Nina Jacobson
#93. Be careful to not haul around in our lives so many nice but unnecessary things that we are distracted and diverted from the things that truly matter most.
David A. Bednar
#94. Before I knowed it, I was saying out loud, 'The hell with it! There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing. And some of the things folks do is nice, and some ain't nice, but that's as far as any man got a right to say.
John Steinbeck
#95. Most people are really nice but some stare, like you're some kind of zoo exhibit and not a real person with real feelings.
Emma Watson
#96. The unfortunate thing is that I live next door to the pub they all drink in. So if I leave my light on and they know I'm in, they all descend on me. I know it's nice, but it's a bit of a bummer if you're trying to watch EastEnders.
Sean Pertwee
#97. Much as I have no wish to hurt anyone's feelings, my first obligation has not been to be nice but to be true to my perhaps peculiar memories, experiences and feelings.
Edward W. Said
#98. Education is nice, but talent's much better. Find your inner talent and put it to work.
Tassa Desalada
#99. For the drivers, a weekend off would be nice, but for the fans, it would not be a very good deal.
Tony Stewart
#100. In the 1970s and 1980s, I got to do some great work. The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.
Sally Field
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