Top 100 Nielsen Quotes
#1. In the best traditions of American comedy, from its beginnings through the crash-bang comedies of the 1990s and 2000s, Leslie Nielsen skewered the otherwise proper, did it with mischievous delight and convulsed audiences mercilessly.
Tom Shales
#2. N MY early boyhood I was enraptured by the great fairytale illustrators of the period: Arthur Rackham, Edmond Dulac, Kay Nielsen. As a schoolboy, I was to discover Aubrey Beardsley, and I was extremely fond of an edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream with most imaginative drawings by Heath Robinson,
John Gielgud
#3. Leslie Nielsen was my favorite growing up; getting to work with him was amazing.
Drake Bell
#4. Netflix did it right and focused on all the things that have replaced the dumb, raw numbers of the Nielsen world - they embraced targeted marketing and 'brand' as a virtue higher than ratings.
Kevin Spacey
#5. At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It is humility with a comb-over. It is Nielsen ratings and Barnum's axiom and the real bottom line. It is big, big business.
David Foster Wallace
#6. With a record of 75 fights and 6 losses, some of the losses were very questionable including Brian Nielsen when we fought in Denmark. I knew I won but they didn't give me that fight.
Larry Holmes
#7. I would love an upgrade from the Nielsen box; it feels so antiquated to me.
Nat Faxon
#8. My father was working on his Ph.D. on Danish choral music - the Danish choral music of Carl Nielsen - so over there to do research.
Pete Docter
#9. Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare.
Leslie Nielsen
#10. Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.
Dan Harmon
#11. Mmmm I like the sounds you're making," he murmured in a honeyed whisper. "I just bet that you're a screamer. Should I have brought earplugs?
Kurt Nielsen
Nikki Sex
#12. It's kind of debatable whether or not the advertisement model is effective. Like whether Nielsen works.
Kevin Smith
#13. Technology has changed, and we need to figure out how to improve the archaic way of what makes a hit, or how to determine how many viewers are watching beyond some people with Nielsen boxes in a small percentage of homes in random areas.
Jim Rash
#14. No offense, Jaron, but I don't want your life. Even locked away behind closed doors I got a taste for how awful it can be."
"Did anyone try to kill you while I was gone?"
"No."
"Then you didn't even get a taste.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#15. With a grin, I told her, I'll have more than ten minutes' notice that this battle is coming. In that way, this might be the most prepared I've ever been.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#17. A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#18. I don't think anybody can really sit down and decide that their mission in life is to make people think. I think their mission in life is to leave people alone!
Leslie Nielsen
#19. The saddest thing is there won't be anyone to miss us when we're gone. No family, no friends, no one waiting at home."
"It's better that way," I said. "It'll be easier for me, knowing my death doesn't add to anyone's pain."
"If you can't give anyone pain, then you can't give them joy either.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#20. If I weren't as tall as I am, I would've been a member of AC/DC.
Rick Nielsen
#21. The reason there's a question mark on my front door is just in case I forget my address.
Leslie Nielsen
#22. It's the guided thought that conquers; not the guided missile.
Helen Nielsen
#23. Sage: "Conner's held you down for so long, you've forgotten what it's like to breathe free air."
Imogen: "And you've given your life to his control forever. You'll never breathe free air again.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#24. In my own life, I've seen myself ramping up the amount of text I consume digitally. For me, it's the weight and inconvenience issue - I want anything that will spare me having to carry around reams of paper.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
#25. When I do interviews, I always go in with the attitude that something good can happen from it.
Rick Nielsen
#26. Despite the value of open data, most labs make no systematic effort to share data with other scientists.
Michael Nielsen
#27. Doing nothing is very tough to do because you never know when you're finished. The upside is that from the moment you wake up in the morning, you're on the job.
Leslie Nielsen
#28. Part of me wanted to fling myself on the bed and hold him. Part of me wanted to fling myself on the bed and pummel him.
Susan Nielsen
#30. The system should always keep users informed about what is going on, through appropriate feedback within reasonable time.
Jakob Nielsen
#31. I was ten years old in 1969, and while we lived in Arizona that year, I spent most of the summer staying with family friends in Portland, Oregon while my parents visited Spain. It was an adventure all around.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
#32. I can't follow behind Terrowic's horse," I protested. "The smell will be unbearable." "All horses smell the same," Kippenger replied. But I eyed Terrowic. "I wasn't talking about the horse.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#33. All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.
Brigitte Nielsen
#34. Carthya's not my country," I said, reaching for the doors to leave. "Frankly, I hope Avenia Destroys it
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#35. The actual distance a bad golfer is going to hit the ball with any club obviously depends on many factors, not the least of which is whether the ball was actually hit at all.
Leslie Nielsen
#37. You think once you've shown what you can do, and your movies have been successful, that snap, you work. So to discover the difference between guys' roles and girls' roles made me plain mad. It's unjust.
Connie Nielsen
#38. On the Web, all advantages are temporary, and you must keep innovating to stay ahead
Jakob Nielsen
#39. All Americans suffer from anxiety; it's a national disease.
Helen Nielsen
#40. All songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper.
Beth Nielsen Chapman
#41. I love the vast surface of silence; and it is my chief delight to break it.
Carl Nielsen
#43. I've got to go."
"Go where?"
"To go. I'd have just taken care of it myself, but it looks like you want to come along."
Mott cursed. "Wait for morning."
"Wish I could. I've been cursed with my mother's pea-size bladder.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#45. When you see Charlie Chaplin, he stays funny. He doesn't become drama, and so what really seems to endure is comedy.
Leslie Nielsen
#46. Let the winds blow, lad
Let fall the deep snow.
Let the stars fall, lad
We'll answer the call.
Let the dark come, lad
Ask not where it's from.
After the fight, lad
We'll see morning's light
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#49. Good information architecture makes users less alienated and suppressed by technology. It simultaneously increases human satisfaction and your company's profits. Very few jobs allow you to do both at the same time, so enjoy.
Jakob Nielsen
#50. I understand that it is not when or how you die but how and if you truly were ever alive.
Jerri Nielsen
#51. I can't remember a minute since we met when I haven't been in love with you.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#52. Everyone gets scared at times. It's only the fools who won't admit it.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#53. She placed a hand on my cheek and softly kissed the other one, then whispered, Remember this moment, then, Sage, when someone of my status offered a kindness to someone of yours. Because next time we meet, if Darius is dead, I will no longer be anyone of importance.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#54. Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life.
Brigitte Nielsen
#55. It's better that your queen pretends to love you, because if she truly did, she would only love a lie.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#56. One thing a person won't do when he's laughing is try to beat you up.
Leslie Nielsen
#57. Windows '98 is so similar to Windows '95 because Apple hasn't invented anything worth copying since 1995.
Jakob Nielsen
#60. A worried man could borrow a lot of trouble with practically no collateral.
Helen Nielsen
#61. You made the right choice," Roden whispered. "Though you did choose his name rather quickly.
"He has a skinny neck. He'd have died faster." (Jaron)
"That's why you chose me? Because it'll take me longer to die?"
"Yes, Roden, that's exactly why."
"Enough bickering!" (Vargan)
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#63. Yeah, you're a regular Sherlock Holmes," Riq said.
"If you mean that I'm good at gathering clues for my brilliant deductions, then I take that as a compliment!
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#64. Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.
Teresa Nielsen Hayden
#66. I can only please one person a day... Today is not your day & tomorrow isn't looking good either.
N.J. Nielsen/ Saddington
#67. I'll try to be careful, but I know I'm not immune, cause I just can't imagine how I'd ever come to harm with this feeling that I'm feeling as I'm drowning in your arms.
Beth Nielsen Chapman
#68. If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.
Connie Nielsen
#69. I'm sorry, Sera. I never understood before. Not really."
"I wish you didn't have to understand now.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#70. I believe God put that itchy spot on our backs just exactly where we can't reach it in order to encourage us be nice to each other.
Teresa Nielsen Hayden
#72. People fall in love and swear they are so sure, then they turn around and say it's over. I never trusted love to come any closer till the moment you were mine.
Beth Nielsen Chapman
#73. I try to combine my work with my family, that's what I aspire to. I don't say that's the only thing. It's not all work and family, because otherwise you would be saying no to the many other things in life and there are many other things.
Connie Nielsen
#75. I would love to be in public one day and see someone reading my book. I think that would be so ridiculously cool.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#76. I realized that I couldn't expect them to think better of me that I thought of myself. So if I believed I was too young or stupid or inexperienced to be a captain, then that's all I would ever be.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#77. Above all else, I think that you are a compulsive liar."
My laughter was tense, but sincere. "Hardly. In fact, I consider myself a compulsive truth teller. It's only that everyone else seems compelled to misunderstand me.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#78. Avenia thinks they're battling a king. I doubt they're prepared to fight a boy who thinks childish pranks are practical strategies for war."
"Aren't they?
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#79. He's no king," I said. "Rulers aren't made just because they sit on the throne. A true king serves his people, protects them, and sees to their happiness if he can.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#80. I'm in a band. I have the basic idea, but when you surround yourself with really good players, why would I tell anyone what to play, because they're that good. They don't tell me what to play. They might encourage me, so that's what I do. I encourage them.
Rick Nielsen
#81. Darius was dead, and very soon she and I would meet as equals. But i had the feeling it wouldn't be a day she ended up celebrating
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#82. I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts; perhaps it was my Canadian accent.
Leslie Nielsen
#84. If I had to do it over again, I would not have chosen this life. Then again, I'm not sure I ever had a choice.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#85. TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories.
Connie Nielsen
#86. I don't believe that life can be counted by years or days, but by experience and how you leave the world by the way you live.
Jerri Nielsen
#87. Our country is Germany
one country that should be reunited. We don't belong to Moscow or to the west. We belong to ourselves and I have never betrayed that. This tunnel has taken every ounce of courage we have. We're not cowards.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#88. Give your clients the earliest delivery consistent with quality - whatever the inconvenience to us.
Arthur C. Nielsen
#90. In the attention economy, anyone trying to connect with an audience must treat the user's time as the ultimate resource.
Jakob Nielsen
#91. I used to have this dream that somebody was knocking at my door. I'd say 'Who is it?' and they'd answer 'Police.' I'd open the door and they would say to me, 'Pack your bags. We realized you have no talent.
Leslie Nielsen
#92. I think it's so important for young readers to find a book or series that ignites their passion for reading, especially boys, whose interest in reading wanes as they grow older.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#94. Are you having problems hearing? If so, those around you already know it. Hearing loss is no laughing matter, so don't be a punchline.
Leslie Nielsen
#95. What we learned is money doesn't grow on trees.
Jakob Nielsen
#96. When you makes movies, you usually make good money. But it is also a very tough job. Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life. And it is never a job from nine to five.
Brigitte Nielsen
#98. No one goes around suggesting that everyone should become their own autonomous cheesemakers and cheering the death of the cheese industry. Why? Because that would result in a lot of shitty cheese.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
#99. Jealousy ... is the most obvious sign of impotency.
Helen Nielsen
#100. If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.
Connie Nielsen
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