Top 100 Nicholas's Quotes
#1. Morane gestured them to some seats near the front, but close to the archway. Probably Nicholas's preference, in case someone threw a bomb. Or in case he decided to throw one.
Martha Wells
#2. Seconds slowed and passed before Nicholas's mind's eye like a parade of snails upon the garden path.
Raymond E. Feist
#3. I can say that I don't have a lot of leisure time, just sitting around doing absolutely nothing, but that's okay.
Nicholas Sparks
#4. He's not going to look back if you don't,' he said, 'They're the most forgiving creatures God ever made.
Nicholas Evans
#5. it did not so much judge the quality of a trader's performance as encourage him to game the system by working for short-term profits at the expense of possible blowups - like
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#6. I feel like these characters, these places, these beings and plots, and even these inanimate objects are counting on me for survival. It's my responsibility to reveal them to the world, to show my readers the names of these things, to show them their histories and stories.
Nicholas Trandahl
#7. When you walk the walk, whether successful or not, you feel more indifferent and robust to people's opinion, freer, more real.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#8. That's sort of what I like about this character is that he's not the good guy, he's not truly the bad guy.
Nicholas Lea
#9. I like writing for other people. I love it. It's great because you write it and then you hand it off to someone else. But in terms of directing, anything I direct will be something I've written or re-written. I'm in no crazy rush to direct.
Nicholas Stoller
#10. I suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern North Carolina, with the exception of Wilmington, most people live in small towns.
Nicholas Sparks
#11. I love experimental writing, when it's good, and good examples are much more likely to be found in the short form.
Nicholas Royle
#12. You educate a boy, and he'll have fewer children, but it's a small effect. You educate a girl, and, on average, she will have a significantly smaller family.
Nicholas Kristof
#13. Supposedly I'm impossible to talk to. But it's honestly not me being difficult. Sometimes you just don't have a lot to say.
Nicholas Hoult
#14. The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over.
Nicholas Sparks
#15. Because he's no better than a spoiled child. You were his toy, and even though he's got new toys, it doesn't mean he wants anyone to play with his old toys.
Nicholas Sparks
#16. They tell you that space is emptiness, nothingness - the void. They suggest that space, empty space, is something negative. I found out that it's not! Space lives, Scott. Nothingness, emptiness, has a life all its own.
Nicholas Fisk
#17. I can't make this decision for you ... this one's yours. I want you to know, though, that I love you. And I always will. I know that doesn't help, but it's all I can do.
Nicholas Sparks
#18. When you get abandoned by someone, that's the moment when you've truly lost faith in them.
Nicholas Murray
#19. My parents aren't hippies. I'm North as in the North Pole. Unfortunately. My brother is Nicholas, and my sister is Noelle.
Wow. God. That's
About a hundred times worse than your name.
I was going to say devoted. Festively devoted.
Stephanie Perkins
#20. But you see Annie, where there's pain, there's still feeling and where there's feeling, there's hope.
Nicholas Evans
#21. ... Science... denude(s) all religious beliefs... denigrating them as irrational forms of superstition or myth regardless of their intrinsic rationality or value.
Nicholas Gane
#22. Yes, the fans are going to get their money's worth. It's like ... and everything on there is funny. It's not like random crap they put in a movie. I think it's all very funny, so.
Nicholas Stoller
#23. But you're disappointed." He brushed a strand of hair from her face. "It's not possible for you to disappoint me.
Nicholas Sparks
#24. My sister is a nurse and saves people's lives.
Nicholas Lea
#25. wealth does not count so much into one's well-being as the route one uses to get to it.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#26. When a person sets a thing in motion, there's a feeling of unease, almost regret, until you learn the truth.
Nicholas Sparks
#27. Whenever I work on a film, I have three rules. Only three and I tell them to every screenwriter. I say let's retain the spirit and the intent of the overall story. Let's make it the best film that we possibly can.
Nicholas Sparks
#28. Love is a gift. You give love and that's where the joy is.
Nicholas Sparks
#29. One of the things you learn as a journalist is that when there's no accountability, we humans are capable of tremendous avarice and venality. That's true of union bosses - and of corporate tycoons. Unions, even flawed ones, can provide checks and balances for flawed corporations.
Nicholas Kristof
#30. Swing is so much more than a dance, it's a way of life. The music gets stuck in your mind and the dance is in your heart and the whole scene is engraved on your soul. You can fly.
Nicholas Hope
#31. When I was eleven, my mother gave me Robert K. Massie's 'Nicholas and Alexandra.' It was the first 'grownup' book I read, and I loved it.
Kathryn Harrison
#32. Humans pull together in an odd way when they're in the wilderness. It's astonishing how few people litter and how much they help one another. Indeed, the smartphone app to navigate the Pacific Crest Trail, Halfmile, is a labor of love by hikers who make it available as a free download.
Nicholas Kristof
#33. I'm not unintelligent, mind you. But wisdom means more than being intelligent, because it encompasses understanding, empathy, experience, inner peace, and intuition, and in retrospect, I obviously lack many of those traits. Here's
Nicholas Sparks
#34. People think that buying something for their home which is up-to-date is chic, but often it's a cliche. I call people who simply give clients the current 'thing' stylists not decorators.
Nicholas Haslam
#35. That's the difference between family and friends. Family is always there, no matter what, even when it's not right next door. Which means that you'll find a way to keep the connection alive. Especially since you realize how important it is.
Nicholas Sparks
#36. I'll admit that it's not easy to get an agent, but becoming successful in anything requires perseverance.
Nicholas Sparks
#37. The author cites researcher David Howard's idea of post-traumatic growth. Howard contends that some individuals faced with a traumatic event actually develop new strength.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#38. Not since I was 10, trying to get Nick Vossler's attention in PE. 'Red Rover, Red Rover, send Nicholas right over!'
Elizabeth Olsen
#39. Nicholas shrugged. "Who knows what he's got locked away in his head. Considering the countless lies he's told, you can never really know." "That's like the pot calling the kettle black, isn't it?" He smirked. "Perhaps.
Jessica Sorensen
#40. Try reading a book while doing a crossword puzzle; that's the intellectual environment of the Internet. BACK
Nicholas Carr
#41. I don't like waiting around for work, and sometimes as an actor you're forced into that position, so that's sort of how I got into writing, producing and directing.
Thomas Ian Nicholas
#42. God, he suddenly understood, was love in its purest form, and in these last months with his children, he had felt His touch as surely as he had heard the music spilling from Ronnie's hands.
Nicholas Sparks
#44. I sold the collection because I finally understood what true love really meant. Tim had told me-and shown me-that love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be. - John Tyree
Nicholas Sparks
#45. Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that's what you are seeking.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#46. It's hard for me to talk to her. All I can do when I look at her is think about the day when I won't be able to. So I spend all my time at school thinking about her, wishing I could see her right then, but when I get to her house, I don't know what to say.
Nicholas Sparks
#47. It's the fashion, I tell you: big, tall women going out with tiny, tiny men.
Nicholas Haslam
#48. For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post.
Nicholas Culpeper
#50. As far as I can tell, dumping soda on people is the equivalent of 'Hi, it's nice to meet you' in this part of the world. Frankly, I think standard greetings work better, but what do I know?
Nicholas Sparks
#51. We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#52. It's not that I'm vain; I simply thought I had plenty of time, so I told Vivian I'd be ready to go in a few minutes.
Nicholas Sparks
#53. Because I learned that it's okay to accept some help every now and then .
Nicholas Sparks
#54. So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me ... everyday.
Nicholas Sparks
#55. That was Kate's first thought. Phoebe had said cute. She'd said he was a nice guy. She had mentioned the killer smile and blue eyes, but she had failed to warn Kate that she wouldn't be able to breathe when she actually met Tucker's gaze directly.
Erin Nicholas
#56. As an actor, it's more interesting to play a nerd than anything else. It's a lot more fun - you don't worry about 'what's my hair like?' in the morning or 'which is my great angle?'
Nicholas Brendon
#57. I mean I certainly like when I'm like talking to people I'm like what did you think, what did you think, what did you think? You know that's always in the back of my head.
Nicholas Stoller
#58. I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too.
Nicholas Hoult
#59. God's promises are like the stars; the darker the night the brighter they shine.
David Nicholas
#60. You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it's an art form that benefits everyone.
Nicholas Sparks
#61. Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud. 'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said. 'By who?' Sophie said.
Roald Dahl
#62. I work on the motto that if something's not impossible, there must be a way to do it.
Nicholas Winton
#63. He's just ... immature. He thinks every woman he meets is crazy for him, gets angry at little things, and blames other people when things go wrong.
Nicholas Sparks
#64. It's terribly easy to be well dressed. It's much more difficult to be badly dressed.
Nicholas Haslam
#65. That's why they say 'falling in love' and not something like 'floating toward love.' Falling is scary.
Nicholas Sparks
#66. I think the first feature of any director is going to hold a special place in their heart. It's kind of like a first kiss in that its highly anticipated and will be forever ingrained in your memory, but at the end of the day you're just trying not to slobber all over the other person.
Nicholas Ozeki
#67. It was a life, she eventually concluded, that had been lived in the middle ground, where contentment and love were found in the smallest details of people's lives. It was a life of dignity and honor, not without sorrows yet fulfilling in a way that few experiences ever were.
Nicholas Sparks
#68. A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#69. Give a day's work for a day's pay. Anything less is stealing.
Nicholas Sparks
#70. I actually don't like westerns much. I like good westerns, but it isn't my preferred genre. There are all kinds of westerns: acid westerns, '70s westerns, Nicholas Ray's neurotic westerns. The ones I tend to like are nutso westerns.
Andrew Dominik
#71. I think it happens to everyone as they grow up," Jeremy responded. "You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. And so you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on. It's perfectly normal.
Nicholas Sparks
#72. You Know it's love when all you want to do is spend time with the other person, and you sort of know that the other person feels the same way.
Nicholas Sparks
#73. Never forget that God is your friend. And like all friends, He longs to hear what's been happening in your life. Good or bad, whether it's been full of sorrow or anger, or even when you're questioning why terrible things have to happen.
Nicholas Sparks
#75. Sandy was particularly destructive because it was prevented from moving back out to sea by a "blocking pattern" associated with the jet stream. There's debate about this, but one recent study suggested that melting sea ice in the Arctic may lead to such blocking.
Nicholas D. Kristof
#76. I guess that's all forever is ... Just one long trail of nows. And I guess all you can do is try and live one now at a time without getting too worked up about the last now or the next now.
Nicholas Evans
#77. My life is infinitely better for having you in it. And that's what makes all of this so hard; it's why I can't seem to find the words I need. It scares me to know that all of this will be ending soon
Nicholas Sparks
#78. Giving the kids a programming environment of any sort, whether it's a tool like Squeak or Scratch or Logo to write programs in a childish way - and I mean that in the most generous sense of the word, that is, playing with and building things - is one of the best ways to learn.
Nicholas Negroponte
#79. An elephant is vastly more efficient, metabolically, than a mouse. It's the same for a megacity as opposed to a village. But an elephant can break a leg very easily, whereas you can toss a mouse out of a window and it'll be fine. Size makes you fragile.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#80. Nicholas Anelka - 24 years of age but he's been around a lot longer than that
Kevin Keegan
#81. We all paint on a face to show the world," Nicholas replies philosophically. "For some of us, that's quite literal.
L. H. Cosway
#82. It's rude to not try and look up-to-date. Is rude the right word? Yes! It's rude - rude to other people.
Nicholas Haslam
#83. Mom says it's because she has PMS.
Do you even know what that means?
I'm not a little kid anymore. It means pissed-at- men syndrome
Nicholas Sparks
#84. Hey, Dad?"
"Yeah?"
Jonah walked in silence for a few steps. "It's okay if you like Miss Andrews."
Miles looked down in surprise. "It is?"
"Yeah," he said seriously. "Because I think she likes you.
Nicholas Sparks
#85. You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else's narrative.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#86. You taught me that it's possible
to move forward in life, no matter how terrible your grief. And in your own way, you've made me
believe that true love cannot be denied.
Nicholas Sparks
#87. As you're growing up, it's odd, because directors don't expect you to grow up. They think you'll be young forever, but as an actor, there is an awkward period when you're too young for old or too old for young, and it can be an odd time.
Nicholas Hoult
#88. It's kindness that helps people cope with a crisis.
Nicholas Young
#89. How do you look at the girl you love and tell yourself it's time to go away ?
Nicholas Sparks
#90. May be they want to talk about it but they know there's nothing you can do to help
Nicholas Sparks
#91. Sex and gender are such befuddling mysteries even for those of us who are in the mainstream that you'd think we'd be wary of being judgmental. Yet much of society clings to a view that gender is completely binary, when, in fact, there's overwhelming evidence of a continuum.
Nicholas Kristof
#92. But most of all, what really attracted me to her was her manner. She laughed a lot, and it's easy to fall for someone who can find humor in any situation. She was also intelligent, well read, and well spoken, willing to listen and confident in her beliefs. And most of all, she was warm.
Nicholas Sparks
#93. While I find inspiration in real life, the actual stories are, thankfully, works of fiction - which, given the considerable turmoil in my character's lives, is probably a good thing!
Nicholas Sparks
#94. It's not that fun to just play a villain, without any reasoning behind it.
Nicholas Lea
#95. You know how gossip is. It's the toxic waste of small town
Nicholas Sparks
#96. You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.
Nicholas Sparks
#97. If you want to get an idea of a friend's temperament, ethics, and personal elegance, you need to look at him under the tests of severe circumstances, not under the regular rosy glow of daily life.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#99. Everyone has a past, but that's just it
it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.
Nicholas Sparks
#100. One year before the Rapture " ... that proves how marvellous God's love is, even for the most miserable human beings, being that demons can never take a human figure in a perfect form, and so the most stupid people are able to discover them." Nicholas Remy, Daemonolatreiae libri tres, 1595.
Phillip W. Simpson
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