Nicked Quotes

#1. Harry, just go down to the lake tomorrow, right, stick your head in, yell at the merpeople to give back whatever they've nicked, and see if they chuck it out. Best you can do, mate.

J.K. Rowling

#2. Hawkwind are one of those bands that people introduce you to because you don't see them on the covers of magazines. I'd heard 'Silver Machine' but Russell Senior, who was in Pulp, got me into them. They had a song called 'Master Of The Universe' and we nicked the title in 1985 for one of our songs.

Jarvis Cocker

#3. No one is more romantic than a cynic. I do think that you don't become cynical or 'unsentimental' unless there's a core of romanticism or sentiment that's had a few chips nicked into it.

Nora Ephron

#4. The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts do the same in their degree, down to a stone stepped over in the path or the breath caught at sight of a pretty girl or a fingernail nicked in the garden soil.

John Steinbeck

#5. Jay Cutler, he's a fine quarterback, but I think at times he gets a little nicked up.

Gale Sayers

#6. I have taken some hits here and there, but I've been most damaged carrying my little terrier to bed, and I broke my hip turning off the lamp. I've been nicked a few times, but he put me out of business. So life is a very strange adventure.

David Douglas Duncan

#7. I tried a very fancy attack I'd learned in France, which involved a beat, a feint in quarte, a feint in sixte, and a lunge veering off into an attack on his wrist. I nicked him, and the blood flowed.

Roger Zelazny

#8. I'm a clean liver; I'm no thief. Kids go through phases of nicking stuff. I've nicked stuff - most people have - but I haven't nicked anything of significance.

Jonas Armstrong

#9. You with the tentacles, you're nicked!

Paul Cornell

#10. I like to tell the streets what the political climate is, and I like to tell any politicians that's listening what the streets think. And sometimes people get nicked up and bruised up, but I usually have a lot of good medicine for that.

Ice Cube

#11. Don't be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce hemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world.

Colin Powell

#12. In addition to Tieren's list, she'd nicked a flask of something called "sleep sweet" and a tiny ampule marked "seer's tea," but she'd left the rest, feeling quite impressed with her restraint.

V.E Schwab

#13. Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls
family, health, friends, integrity
are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.

Gary Keller

#14. You nicked-named my daughter after the Lock Ness Monster!

Stephenie Meyer

#15. I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls.

Michael J. Fox

#16. One time I got dressed in all black, Rambo-style, and took a massive pair of bolt-cutters and nicked a military bike.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

#17. I risked getting my tyres nicked by going to Robbie Fowler's home in Liverpool!

Kevin Keegan

#18. prayer and persistence, the good Lord will provide.

Teresa Medeiros

#19. Anytime you have difficulty making an important decision, you can be sure that it's the result of being unclear about your values.

Anthony Robbins

#20. I love paying tax so much, the sight of a gritter lorry gives me an erection

Jon Richardson

#21. Best believe that needle hurt you Best to see these true colors Than follow one of your false virtues A little secret to make you think: Why is the crazy stuff we never say, poetry in ink?

Eddie Van Halen

#22. I did not tell half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed

Marco Polo

#23. I like men. They are hugely entertaining, but they have a lot of shortcomings and you just have to bear those in mind.

Jo Brand

#24. Thousands of animals (now billions) are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race.

Romain Rolland

#25. Buddha taught kindness towards lower beings; and since then there has not been a sect in India that has not taught charity to all beings, even to animals. This kindness, this mercy, this charity - greater than any doctrine - are what Buddhism left to us.

Swami Vivekananda

#26. Science leads you to killing people.

Ben Stein