Nicky Wire Quotes

#1. Sin should be solitary and have no accomplices.

Oscar Wilde

#2. The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera.

Elliott Erwitt

#3. In satyagraha, a courted imprisonment carries its own praise.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. A blank page of paper and a pen is the greatest invention its so exciting to be confronted by possibility.

Nicky Wire

#5. Come on out, Cock-a-Doodle! Come see the Colonel. I got eleven herbs and spices for your ass." Ferrik

Dean Fearce

#6. Government support is not only investing in upstream areas like basic research, but also in downstream areas like applied research and early-stage financing for the companies themselves. This means there are great risks.

Mariana Mazzucato

#7. I do consider myself to be something of a pretentious wanker.

Nicky Wire

#8. The only good thing about America is that you killed John Lennon.

Nicky Wire

#9. Game design isn't just a technological craft. It's a twenty-first-century way of thinking and leading.

Jane McGonigal

#10. Why do I even have to say this? Why do I have to say "Get off the unique and probably alien living plinth that zaps the unwary?" What is wrong with my life that I have to say these things out loud ... ?

Warren Ellis

#11. We all decided that from the start, me and Richey can't write music but we can write lyrics and look pretty tarty.

Nicky Wire

#12. Let's be honest: Kerry has no idea what it is to be even a middle-class white in this country.

Glenn Reynolds

#13. I think solitude is a really positive thing. I cherish solitude immensely. In today's society, there's so much pressure to communicate, eat out, be friends with people. Why can't you read a book on your own? Why have you got to have a book club?

Nicky Wire

#14. If literature or music can make you think or become aware, then it's done something. That's what we've always wanted to do, just ignite sparks in people's minds. We can't offer a manifesto of how to make your life better.

Nicky Wire

#15. Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

Diane Ackerman

#16. It needs good management to enjoy life. I enjoy it twice as much as others, for the measure of enjoyment depends on the greater or less attention that we give to it ... The shorter my possession of life the deeper and fuller I must make it.

Michel De Montaigne

#17. Clarity and perseverance are difficult in American society because the basis of capitalism is greed and dissatisfaction.

Natalie Goldberg