Top 39 Nicoll Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Nicoll

#1. Maurice Nicoll says all history is a living today. We are not enjoying one spark of life in a huge, dead waste. We are, instead, existing at one point in a vast process of the living who still think and feel but are invisible to us.

Richard Matheson

#2. It's interesting to see how some of the womenswear designers that we have long worked with at Net-A-Porter are developing menswear collections - Christopher Kane, Jonathan Saunders and Richard Nicoll.

Natalie Massenet

#3. Deadly nightshade is the only plant I have ever been able to get to grow for me.

James Nicoll

#4. I will also tell you a secret. We have to will one another: this is the beginning of conscious love.

Maurice Nicoll

#5. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

James Nicoll

#6. It's bad to wake up and see a large cat in mid-leap from the rough vicinity of the ceiling.

James Nicoll

#7. Never bring a gun to a fight where the other guy has a time-machine and tomorrow's newspapers.

James Nicoll

#8. [Elizabeth Moon's] antagonists are always evil moustache-twirlers. She could write a book about a golf open and the main rival to the hero would turn out to have clubs made from compressed kittens.

James Nicoll

#9. The Work is something living in our hearts and minds. Follow the path, see what changes take place within you, and what light begins to dawn in you.

Maurice Nicoll

#10. I think once you start eating people you should stop claiming to be a vegetarian, even if you only eat bad people.

James Nicoll

#11. The past in retrospect holds manifold disenchantments, failures and even tragedies; and yet the worse may be forgotten and the best held fast.

William Robertson Nicoll

#12. About Antrax by Terry Brooks: I wonder if he's planning a book called SRS? Or F'lu?

James Nicoll

#13. I don't mind hidden depths but I insist that there be a surface.

James Nicoll

#14. Romeo and Juliet *died*. I always liked that in a teen romance story.

James Nicoll

#15. Ben Bova seems to work very hard at working in new discoveries into his Glum Future but alas, his future is glum and not that well written.

James Nicoll

#16. I believe that I have now experienced the lifetime maximum exposure to bottom spanking in fantasy novels.

James Nicoll

#17. I have hated every Kress I read, especially this one, but the Bear is a standard Bear and if you like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing you'll like.

James Nicoll

#18. My father once discovered that one cannot "walk off" gangrene.

James Nicoll

#19. You may have trouble getting permission to aero or lithobrake asteroids on Earth.

James Nicoll

#20. About First Landing by Robert Zubrin: Someday I'd like to read a story about competent people on Mars.

James Nicoll

#21. English doesn't borrow from other languages. english follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.

James Nicoll

#22. Call me an extremist but killing a few hundred million people seems like the sort of method that might have unintended consequences.

James Nicoll

#23. The Kindle Paperwhite is hypoallergenic.

Leslie H. Nicoll

#24. Gun-wielding recluse gunned down by local police" isn't the epitaph I want. I am hoping for "Witnesses reported the sound up to two hundred kilometers away" or "Last body part finally located".

James Nicoll

#25. Whenever I find my will to live becoming too strong, I read Peter Watts

James Nicoll

#26. Manitoba ... Not sure what to do about them. Restock the province with megafauna and encourage tourism, I think. How quickly can we breed back the saber-toothed cats?

James Nicoll

#27. How then can we change being? By applying the knowledge of the Work through self-observation to ourselves. And remember that you do not change by being told what to do. You only change through seeing what you have to do when you realize what your being is like.

Maurice Nicoll

#28. It is like the man who became short-sighted and refused to wear glasses, saying there was nothing wrong with him, but that the trouble was that the recent papers were so badly printed.

Maurice Nicoll

#29. Everything you do consciously is preserved for you: everything you do mechanically, since you did not do it, is lost.

Maurice Nicoll

#30. All our theories of improving the world, while we are still asleep, merely intensify the sleep of humanity.

Maurice Nicoll

#31. I am inclined to put the zenith of success-the time of most consideration and public labor -as somewhere in the sixties, say from sixty-five to seventy.

William Robertson Nicoll

#32. The central conception of Man in the Gospels is that he is an unfinished creation capable of reaching a higher level by a definite evolution which must begin by his own efforts.

Maurice Nicoll

#33. Most of my scars are not fire-related and I no longer say "I know what I am doing" at critical moments.

James Nicoll

#34. Humanity is regarded as unfinished, incomplete, imperfect. We have the possibility of completing ourselves, perfecting ourselves, and all that is necessary for this lies in us.

Maurice Nicoll