Nick's Quotes

#1. At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that today I know what I want. That's the problem with perspective, as well as focus and concentration. - Author: Nick Cave

#2. I've been exploring what works for me, and what I enjoy. It's about diet for me as well as training. So finding something you enjoy, making sure it works for you and sticking at it would be my advice. - Author: Nick Youngquest

#3. It's an Australian thing to be dismissive. We find that endearing. Americans don't. They believe what you say. - Author: Nick Cave

#4. You had a bet. You couldn't lose a bet. If you had a choice between me and winning, you'll choose winning every time. It's still true. - Author: Jennifer Echols

#5. Can you do me a favor?" he asked. "What's that?" "Shut up and kiss me like you mean it." So I did. - Author: Nick Wilgus

#6. Nick stopped at the door. The grin on his face warned trouble. "By the way, loved the bows on your panties."
Oh, for fuck's sake.
Reece's jaw became so hard I thought it would snap off as he watched Nick saunter out the door. - Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout

#7. If you don't look at yourself and evaluate it, you instead see how the world's reacting to it. - Author: Nick Offerman

#8. She had Nick Lachey's body, a deep voice, very small boobies, and a crew cut. It would have come as no surprise if she had walked into the backyard to compete in a rock-hurling competition after dinner. - Author: Chelsea Handler

#9. These what-if equations have kept her life static since adolescence. And if life proves one thing, it's that the best laid plans don't necessarily lead to the best results. - Author: Nick Alexander

#10. MEASURED IN THE BLOOD spilt in leadership challenges or the bile spewed daily in parliament, the developed world's most stable economy has produced the most volatile and petty politics. - Author: Nick Bryant

#11. It was Nick's voice Nick's arms. He turned me on my back and swam with me, pulling me to the bank. - Author: Elizabeth Chandler

#12. I would just like to be real and be me. It's just really hard to do walking around and everyone knows who I am. - Author: Nick Diaz

#13. Photography is without mercy
though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat's meat men. - Author: Nick Harkaway

#14. We've got to get these guys to Bubba's. Anyone got a clue how to do it? (Nick) They gotta be breathing? (Simi) Yes. (Nick and Caleb) Well, pooh. That just takes all the fun out of it. (Simi) - Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon

#15. The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists, not in the writing of the song, but the starting of the new song. - Author: Nick Cave

#16. Part of the genius of (Nick) Sabin's system was that he understood that no matter the skill set, he was inheriting vulnerable kids from various backgrounds. For those times when they made poor decisions, as they invariably did, the safety net must be strong as far and wide as possible. - Author: Jeff Benedict

#17. I know I don't want to ask this, but the compulsion's more than I can bear. What's kind of human?" Ash
"She's a ghost." Nick
"What kind of idiot dates a ghost?" Ash - Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon

#18. You know I'd follow you anywhere. Even if it's straight to Hell. - Author: Abigail Roux

#19. You're going to have things to repent, boy,' Mr. John had told Nick. 'That's one of the best things there is. You can always decide whether to repent them or not. But the thing is to have them. - Author: Ernest Hemingway,

#20. Nick can do a pretty good nice, but it's not the real deal. His is a thin, watery nice, a niceness-au-jus drizzled over a great big asshole sandwich. - Author: Melissa DeCarlo

#21. If we all could be a true friend to someone, praying and encouraging one person somehow, that's a first step in being part of making the world a better place, - Author: Nick Vujicic

#22. I've had countless conversations with or about people who are "sleeping in separate bedrooms", as if sleeping in the same bed is all there is to staying married, but however bad things get, sharing a bed has never been problematic; it's the rest of life that horrifies. - Author: Nick Hornby

#23. I've been a legitimate fan of Keith Urban's for a long time and have been to a bunch of his concerts. - Author: Nick Fradiani

#24. She spoke under her breath to Nick. "Is there a reason he's only wearing one sock?" "He puked on his foot." "Oh." She turned back to Huxley. "Can we get you another sock? Maybe a blanket or something? - Author: Julie James

#25. It's a lie to think you're not good enough. It's a lie to think you're not worth anything. - Author: Nick Vujicic

#26. It gives me some satisfaction to know that my departure will become somebody else's good luck - Author: Rachel Cohn

#27. And another way of explaining it is to say that shit happens, and there's no space too small, too dark and airless and fucking hopeless, for people to crawl into. - Author: Nick Hornby

#28. I don't know that there's any particular scientific evidence that you could say, more guys get hurt in this offense versus that one, or hurry-up, or whatever, but everything that we've ever done in the NCAA is about exposure. How many exposures does a player get? - Author: Nick Saban

#29. I write songs from the point of view I had at a time;I'm not tryingto write songs from a young person's point of view.That only ends in disaster. - Author: Nick Cave

#30. If there's one thing I'm not going to apologise for as the leader of the Liberal Democrats in government after 60 or 70 years of being out of government, it's that you just cannot avoid but deal with the world the way it is. - Author: Nick Clegg

#31. Okay, you're telling the truth. By the way, Nick, you have the most screwed-up life. You're either boring as all get out, or you're about to die. There's no middle ground with you. You might want to work on that. - Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon

#32. She who licks her lips knows the taste of her lover's desires - Author: Nick Bantock

#33. Never mind, never mind, let's get to the part where we smite the unrighteous. I've brought my most alarming teeth! - Author: Nick Harkaway

#34. One of my biggest disappointments is watching the trailer for the second 'Lord of the Rings' film and having Gandalf in it. Why? You know, he died in the first one, why give it away in the trailer just to try and sell a thousand more seats? It's daft. - Author: Nick Frost

#35. After a while, you just don't do things you don't wanna do - that's the great freedom you get, the older you get. You learn what to do and what not to do, and what will be a waste of time and what won't be a waste of time. - Author: Nick Cave

#36. Success is a very scary thing especially after you choose something and everything starts coming at you. It's absolutely frightening because the mind does things. It says, 'You've got to hold on to this or get away from this. - Author: Nick Nolte

#37. There's so much great stuff out there. The artists who've been most formative to me are the ones I've had the privilege to work with over the years. - Author: Nick Blaemire

#38. You asked why I couldn't forgive you," Nick said, very quietly, and I jumped a little. "It was because you were the love of my life, Harper. And you didn't want to be. That's hard to let go. - Author: Kristan Higgins

#39. It's hard to give someone advice when you're an institution. I don't really put a lot of pressure on it - I'm just open to doing stuff that's challenging. - Author: Nick Swardson

#40. Nick subjected him to a long, judgmental stare. "There's something very wrong with you," he said at last. "I thought you should know. - Author: Sarah Rees Brennan

#41. Losing other people's money was terrible. - Author: Nick Woodman

#42. Listeria ... secretes two or three proteins that together hijack the host cell's cytoskeleton. As a result, the bacteria motor around the inside of the infected cell, pushed by an actin 'comet tail' that associates and dissociates behind them. - Author: Nick Lane

#43. I have my master's degree in secondary education. I actually interned at a high school and student-taught at a high school for a year. - Author: Nick Fradiani

#44. I have had the privilege of working with the best in the business, from photographers to designers to magazines. There's not much more to ask for but I'm still looking forward to one day working with photographers Mert and Marcus, Tim Walker and Nick Knight. - Author: Chanel Iman

#45. With 3D, all you're doing is trying to shock the audience; there's no value to the storytelling. - Author: Nick Nolte

#46. Maybe it's some Bioterrorism test being run by the government. Don't drink the tap water or seafood until I do some testing." Bubba
"I don't normally drink my seafood Bubba, but" Nick - Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon

#47. I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my circumstance. There's a purpose for why you're in the fire. If God can use a man without arms and legs to be His hands and feet, then He will certainly use any willing heart! - Author: Nick Vujicic

#48. The last thing I ever wanted to get involved with is Hollywood. The way it works is that people get an idea you could possibly do something, but there's a one-in-a-hundred chance that it could get made. - Author: Nick Cave

#49. It's taken me a lot of years to peel away my own layers. - Author: Nick Offerman

#50. Self-editing is the way I write. Ten verses of a song and it's finished. Then we start playing it and if I see that it's too long, I'll start cutting. - Author: Nick Cave

#51. I don't really do Japanese interviews. I don't think there's much call for me in Japan. - Author: Nick Cave

#52. It's just that none of us had the wit or talent to make them into songs. We made them into life, which much messier, and more time consuming, and leaves nothing for anybody to whistle. - Author: Nick Hornby

#53. As far as One Direction goes, and Mindless Behavior and all the other bands, I'm all for it, and if there's ever an opportunity to work with them, that'd be great. - Author: Nick Jonas

#54. Secret ops by secret forces have a nasty tendency to produce unintended, unforeseen, and completely disastrous consequences. New Yorkers will remember well the end result of clandestine U.S. support for Islamic militants against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan during the 1980s: 9/11. - Author: Nick Turse

#55. Nick's cell phone rings at ten A.M., and I can tell by his voice that it is Go. He sounds springy, boyish, the way he always does when he talks to her. The way he used to sound with me. He heads into the bedroom and shuts - Author: Gillian Flynn

#56. Yes, you are under surveillance. Yes, it is odious. Yes, it should bother you. And yes, it's hard to know how to avoid it. - Author: Nick Harkaway

#57. I like it that my career has all the predictability and continuity of a children's nonsense rhyme. - Author: Nick Bantock

#58. You can have your own language. You can have your own dialect; you can have your own way of saying things, but if you don't actually understand the way the language fits together, it's chaos. - Author: Nick Earls

#59. That night taught me one of life's most useful lessons, one of the only pieces of advice I have to offer to younger generations: YOU'RE ALLOWED TO WALK OUT! - Author: Nick Hornby

#60. Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one's thoughts - Author: Nick Bantock

#61. Listen, ah don't wanna speak ill of the dead but have ah told you that mah mother was a great whopping whale of a cunt? Well she was precisely that - a great whopping whale of a hog's cunt with a dirty maggot for a brain. - Author: Nick Cave

#62. The secret to longevity in the music business is to change, and to be able to change. An actor has to assume other people's identities. A rock star doesn't need to do that. But change is important. - Author: Nick Cave

#63. I don't think it's about who you play, I think it's about who you are. - Author: Nick Saban

#64. It's just that romance, with its dips and turns and glooms and highs, its swoops and swoons and blues, is a natural metaphor for music itself - Author: Nick Hornby

#65. I'd love to do a film with Mariah. But it would have to be a comedy. She's the funniest woman in the world, she just cracks me up all the time. - Author: Nick Cannon

#66. The Nick Boles text is kiboshed [Mike] Gove's chances. It undermined people's confidence in him. It made it look as if he's been conspiring all along. It did more damage to his reputation than anything else. - Author: Andrea Leadsom

#67. Is there Gawker ethics? I mean, I guess there's Gawker ethics. It's a dangerous thing to talk about. - Author: Nick Denton

#68. Courage' isn't the kinds of word you use to describe yourself, Nick, even if we both know it's true. That only works if other people are saying it. - Author: Lisa Belkin

#69. I remember when I first came out on tour, it was Greg Norman and Nick Price. We forget how big Norman was, what a presence he was. I remember one of my first tournaments, Greg threw an orange peel down on the ground and some fan ran over and grabbed it. 'This is Greg Norman's orange peel!' - Author: Phil Mickelson

#70. What the military will say to a reporter and what is said behind closed doors are two very different things - especially when it comes to the U.S. military in Africa. - Author: Nick Turse

#71. Eight years ago, I was a waiter, and I didn't have a pot to piss in. And now ... ? It's like I said to my wife: I love the fact that, if I was in a restaurant and Steven Spielberg walked in, I could go up to him and say, 'Hey, mate, how are you?' I think that's pretty amazing, actually. - Author: Nick Frost

#72. I like to go home early, that's my thing. My idea of a pub crawl lasts from midday until 5 P.M., then I can go home, play with my kid, have tea and go to bed. - Author: Nick Frost

#73. People who were born in '66 are nearly fifty? I know the show's fifty, but it seems like yesterday. Human years are different. I'd have guessed that Tim was twenty-five for thirty. - Author: Nick Hornby

#74. I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him. [- Nick Carroway] - Author: F Scott Fitzgerald

#75. I think one of the things the writers' festival does that is very good is that it brings writers from around the world and around the country and locally and puts them all in the one spot together, and that's what a lot of the world's great writers' festivals do. - Author: Nick Earls

#76. My dad's side of the family had lots of artists and musicians. There's an emotional, quite sentimental quality to Slavic culture. It's very open, it loves art, it loves music, it loves literature. It's very warm, it's very up, it's very down. I would celebrate that. - Author: Nick Clegg

#77. In a film muddied by fictional detail, the new Spielberg production 'Fifth Estate's portrayal of the 'Guardian's work with Wikileaks is accurate in describing the running dispute between journalists who wanted to redact documents to make them safe and Julian Assange, who wanted no such restraint. - Author: Nick Davies

#78. The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn't, it dies. It's important to feed the organism, and one way of doing that is to set musical challenges that keep it alive. - Author: Nick Cave

#79. It's always weird to eat something that is a pet elsewhere. - Author: Nick Kroll

#80. Not since I was 10, trying to get Nick Vossler's attention in PE. 'Red Rover, Red Rover, send Nicholas right over!' - Author: Elizabeth Olsen

#81. Joy requires one to be awake, Adjusting the heart's ambience to bright. Some prefer the dark, as is their right, On grounds of agony, and to forsake Not only bliss, but all that's blessed by light. - Author: Nick Gordon

#82. I am a rationalist, and I don't believe in genies, or sudden personality changes. I wanted David's anger to vanish only after years and years in therapy. - Author: Nick Hornby

#83. Top five things I miss about Laura ... Two: she's got character ... she's loyal and honest, and she doesn't even take it out on people when she's having a bad day. That's character. - Author: Nick Hornby

#84. He was beginning to wonder whether June's facility, and their shared interest, might serve them better in the long run than a passionate sexual relationship that would eventually die on them. - Author: Nick Hornby

#85. Reading is awesome. Just escaping into someone else's life, into another world. In books, everything is possible. - Author: Nick Lake

#86. I believe if God doesn't give you a miracle, you are a miracle of God for somebody else's salvation. - Author: Nick Vujicic

#87. Nick gave a sharp nod. "Fair point". Rising, he stepped toward the desk and stole a chip off Marz's plate.
"Dude," Marz said, holding out his hands, "get your own crunchy goodness. - Author: Laura Kaye

#88. A vision flashed across Nick's mind. It was the image of a lipstick kiss his wife left for him on the mirror that morning. It hung there like the single digit sum to the chalkboard-crammed equation of his life. - Author: Gary Ponzo

#89. He's the sort of player whose brain doesn't always know where his legs are carrying him. - Author: Nick Farr-Jones

#90. It's not what you like but what you are like that's important. - Author: Nick Hornby

#91. I'm pretty well-rounded. I can do most of my tricks left and right, in both directions. I try to be smooth and confident. But it's still developing. I'm still trying to find my own personal touch in the way I ski. - Author: Nick Goepper

#92. The mosh pit will reveal all the answers. The mosh pit never lies.
-Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist - Author: Rachel Cohn

#93. Theater and music are both collaborative media, and I think they're best when they combine different people's visions and aesthetics. - Author: Nick Blaemire

#94. In the hip-hop community, it's about how real are you, or how strong can you be, and really my music just reflects me. If you can accept me, then you can accept my music. - Author: Nick Cannon

#95. Deserts are like nearly bald men having a haircut. The difference is absolutely crucial from within, but to the rest of us it's still a dusty scrubland with little in the way of plant life. - Author: Nick Harkaway

#96. Whatever it is you like to do, that's the sexiest part of you. - Author: Nick Offerman

#97. Nick came right up into Becca's space and, without a word, buried his hands in her hair and his tongue in her mouth. It was the kind of kiss that could change a woman's life. - Author: Laura Kaye

#98. Everything has a purpose, even this, and it's up to you to find it. - Author: Nick Nolte

#99. The true history of Vietnamese civilian suffering does not fit comfortably into America's preferred postwar narrative - the tale of a conflict nobly fought by responsible commanders and good American boys, who should not be tainted by the occasional mistakes of a few 'bad apples' in their midst. - Author: Nick Turse

#100. With writing a song, I've always felt, right from the start, like I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel. I don't ever feel there's a font of ideas to fall back on. - Author: Nick Cave