Top 100 Nigel Quotes
#1. We have a Conservative leader that believes in green taxes, that won't bring back grammar schools, that believes in continuing with total open-door migration from eastern Europe and refuses to give us a referendum on the EU.
Nigel Farage
#2. People will say what they want to say, in the way they want to.
Nigel Rees
#3. He'd once had a religious conviction, but had been acquitted through lack of evidence.
Nigel Cole
#4. Success is the accomplishment of any number of possible aims, dreams, aspirations or goals. It's very personal and unique to you. Your greatest desire could be someone else's idea of hell; you might want to be an award-winning chef while your best friend hates cooking.
Nigel Cumberland
#5. I am delighted to accept the chairmanship of Vote Leave, to help ensure that the organisation is fully prepared for the start of the referendum campaign.
Nigel Lawson
#6. It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.
Nigel Farage
#7. It must have been the fall of 1952 when my father returned to London sporting a neck tie emblazoned with the words 'I Like Ike.'
Nigel Hamilton
#8. The situation in Greece just goes from bad to worse. We've now got a situation where there was the big suicide a few weeks ago, where a 77-year-old man shot himself in the head outside the Greek Parliament. That was the public face of what's gone wrong.
Nigel Farage
#9. Goodness," Tessa said to the back of his head. "If you keep seeing Six-Fingered Nigel like this, he'll expect you to declare your intentions.
Cassandra Clare
#10. Tap dancers find it very difficult to do anything other than tap if that is all they have been trained in because, again, it's a whole different ballgame that you're constantly working on - bent legs, loose ankles - which you cannot afford to do when you're doing jumps or anything else.
Nigel Lythgoe
#11. If you love music and you are good in it, you will be fine. But be prepared to have to work hard.
Nigel Godrich
#12. My favorite memory is Tomorrow. Tomorrow's family moments are what I look forward to every day. No single favorite. Just Tomorrow.
Nigel Barker
#13. People think New York is this big city where no one knows each other, but when you live in the Village, it's the opposite.
Nigel Barker
#14. My wife is a size zero and eats more than I do, and I'm a 6'4, 225 lb. man!
Nigel Barker
#15. I strongly suspect that there would be a positive economic advantage to the U.K. in leaving the single market.
Nigel Lawson
#16. As soon as you 'Botox' your smile lines away, you lose part of your identity.
Nigel Barker
#17. The natural pattern of current astronomy is provided by the cryptic unity of nature itself (belief in which is the chief act of faith of the scientist).
Nigel Calder
#18. There has always been, and there always will be, an economic cycle.
Nigel Lawson
#19. We did a 60 page book in one day. She's one of the most photogenic, easy to shoot, inspiring, extraordinary people in front of the camera who I've ever photographed. Yes Taylor Swift has it all. My goodness that girl has it all, what can I say she's extraordinary.
Nigel Barker
#20. The moral was, in time of anarchy, tough leadership is the only solution - even though the collateral damage may be heartbreaking. Mrs. Thatcher's strident, take-no prisoners approach was in some ways repugnant, but it was surely necessary.
Nigel Hamilton
#21. Should we continue to run our economic affairs or be managed by people in Brussels?
Nigel Farage
#22. Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away - he said violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country.
Nigel Farage
#23. My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.
Nigel Dennis
#24. So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!
Nigel Dennis
#25. I was broadcast-struck from an early age; I had saved up for a tape recorder and started making programmes.
Nigel Rees
#26. Raising the personal allowance is massively expensive. For the same amount of money, you could look at reducing the rate of tax.
Nigel Lawson
#27. Most of the countries in the world are outside the E.U., and they are doing very nicely, thank you.
Nigel Lawson
#28. I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever.
Nigel Kennedy
#29. There can always be an 'Idol' without anybody. I believe that Seacrest is probably the best host in the business.
Nigel Lythgoe
#30. Almost anything is edible with a dab of French mustard on it.
Nigel Slater
#31. One thing we've learned is that there's not anything that Nigel Farage won't blame on foreigners.
Nicola Sturgeon
#32. Nigel might have an earlier date, but I think it's unprecedented from my memory. So it is a reminder to everybody that the public can move very rapidly on some issues and therefore what looks settled may not be.
Jim Bolger
#33. We should honor Franklin Delano Roosevelt today as the greatest commander in chief of the Armed Forces of the United States in our history, bar none - including President Lincoln.
Nigel Hamilton
#34. We wouldn't want to be like the Swiss, would we? That would be awful! We'd be rich!
Nigel Farage
#35. Chess is, in essence, a game for children. Computers have exacerbated the trends towards youth because they now have an immensely powerful tool at their disposal and can absorb vast amounts of information extremely quickly.
Nigel Short
#36. 'The Hobbit' by J. R. R. Tolkien was the first book I enjoyed. I was 14 and when I finished I started it again.
Nigel Lythgoe
#37. I also like flyfishing - maybe I would have figured a way to make a living out of that?
Nigel Dennis
#38. The minute you take away somebody the public's voting for, you're screwing with the program. There's no logic to it.
Nigel Lythgoe
#39. A flat-rate poll tax would be politically unsustainable; even with a rebate scheme, the package would have an unacceptable impact on certain types of household.
Nigel Lawson
#40. I am not getting into the rarebit versus rabbit argument. Whatever you call it, it is still cheese on toast.
Nigel Slater
#41. I am disgusted at the way May has been speaking. The EU nationals living in the UK came here legally and they have protected rights.
Nigel Farage
#42. Neither team has really taken the baton by the scruff of the neck and put their stamp on it
Nigel Worthington
#43. The life you're leading is the sexiest part of you.
Nigel Barker
#44. Our feeling is that the status quo often gets a boost and this is the new status quo.
Nigel Farage
#45. Yes, but the artist?" said Nigel almost fiercely. "He's different, you know he is. He's driven by some compulsion: if he can't do what he knows he has to do with his life he might as well be dead. He's got to break through the world's indifference, or else break himself against it. He can't help it.
Mary Stewart
#46. Food has been my career, my hobby, and, it must be said, my escape.
Nigel Slater
#47. Write 'judge of beautiful women' on my tombstone. I'd be quite happy.
Nigel Barker
#48. Mill was very clear on this point: offence should not be confused with harm.
Nigel Warburton
#49. Looking back as an historian, I find myself having great respect for Ronald Reagan's consistency: his absolute conviction that the Soviet Union - the only competing world empire at the time - was bound to collapse!
Nigel Hamilton
#50. [Agatha Christie] is fond of quoting the witty wife who once said, 'an archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Christie's husband, Max Mallowan, was an archaeologist.
Nigel Dennis
#51. If you punish the banks, all you are doing is reducing the banks' capital, which you want to increase, and punishing shareholders, who have done nothing wrong.
Nigel Lawson
#52. I believe I can lead this party from the front as a campaigning organization.
Nigel Farage
#53. Nigel hit his button again. "I need security." "No, you don't," Taggart said, his mouth curling up in a deeply gruesome approximation of a grin. "You just need to give me five minutes with him." "Ian, you promised you would stop killing people. I'm tired of getting blood out of your clothes.
Lexi Blake
#54. I'm painting color squares. One
square - one color. That's what I paint.
Nigel Tomm
#55. All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.
Nigel Kneale
#56. I think the first rule of comedy is that it has to be funny and I find a lot of the broad comedy which is sent to me, painfully unfunny.
Nigel Cole
#57. Preserving freedom of speech maximizes the chance of truth emerging from its collision with error and half-truth.
Nigel Warburton
#58. Unlike my esteemed colleague Garry Kasparov, I don't restrict the strength of opposition to Elo <2000, as fly-swatting makes poor spectator sport. (on simultaneous exhibitions)
Nigel Short
#59. What would it be like to think what a gerbil thinks, from a gerbil's point of view? Kind of like Thomas Nigel's 1974 paper, 'What Is It Like to Be a Bat?' There's a subjective character of experience that's never captured in reductive accounts. Know what I mean?'
'Um ... Sure.
Steven James
#60. To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.
Nigel Lawson
#61. It would give me a terrific sense of satisfaction to be the man who sent both Eubank and Benn into retirement. Benn doesn't need me to tell him that he's over the hill because, deep down, he knows it.
Nigel Benn
#62. There's not enough of us in the Northern Territory in Federal Parliament to squabble.
Nigel Scullion
#63. For guys, growing older is fine. Gray hair and wrinkles aren't considered a bad thing.
Nigel Barker
#64. For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend's garden. We often joked that there was plenty of film in the fridge, but not too much food!
Nigel Dennis
#65. A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.
Nigel Short
#66. I played ten injury-free years between the ages of 12 and 22. Then, suddenly, it seemed like I was allergic to the twentieth century.
Nigel Melville
#67. Perchance you shall, fair sir," said Nigel, "for all that I have seen of you fills me with this desire to go further with you. It is in my mind that we might turn this thing to profit and to honour, for when Sir Robert has spoken to you, I am free to do with you as I will.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#68. When differences of view emerge, as they are bound to do from time to time, they should be resolved privately and whenever appropriately, collectively.
Nigel Lawson
#69. I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw ...
Nigel Short
#70. The pro-E.U. campaign is all too likely to be based on a fear of the unknown because in most people's lifetime, we have never been out of the E.U.
Nigel Lawson
#71. Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.
Nigel Kennedy
#72. I can think and play stuff in classical music that possibly violinists who didn't have access to other types of music could never do. It means I'm more flexible within classical music, to be a servant to the composer.
Nigel Kennedy
#73. I'd never seen any television before I started.
Nigel Kneale
#74. Certain formats should never be forgotten, 'Blind Date' for instance, because 'Britain's Got Talent' is really 'New Faces' or 'The Gong Show,' whilst we're basically 'Opportunity Knocks.'
Nigel Lythgoe
#75. Everything in Formula 1 has been sterilised now, the whole thing is controlled too much.
Nigel Mansell
#76. A large wildlife book, start to finish, could take one to two years, but then I would expect to get several good (nature) magazine features off the back of this, plus of course a lot of stock.
Nigel Dennis
#77. I am married to a girl from Hamburg, so no one need tell me about the dangers of living in a German dominated household.
Nigel Farage
#78. I'm fascinated by the concept of what I call 'clusters of creativity': the Brontes, the Waughs, families with several geniuses. I'm one of four; competition among siblings has to be a factor.
Nigel Hamilton
#79. I think that the ordinary bloke has an instinctive sense that it wouldn't be too bad if the weather warmed up.
Nigel Lawson
#80. 'American Idol' became a juggernaut of epic proportions, but to me it was always like home.
Nigel Lythgoe
#81. (In the real world, you'd want to use a custom search system of some sort. Search the Web for open-source full-text search to get an idea of the possibilities.)
Nigel George
#82. I've been in motorsport my whole life since I was eight years of age.
Nigel Mansell
#85. A blah is a terrible thing to waste!
Nigel Tomm
#86. The Nigel Benn that beat Doug De Witt would have beaten any middleweight in the world,' says Manny Steward. 'And I mean any middleweight, then, now or any time.
Kevin Mitchell
#87. Kate Moss is small and not necessarily model dimensions but she has that special something.
Nigel Barker
#88. Humankind spends so much time admiring and ritualizing the inventions of humankind! And yet humankind is such a tiny part of all there is.
Nigel S. Hey, Wonderment(Matador, 2012)
Nigel Hey
#89. If you can get through the first round you have a good chance of getting into the next one.
Nigel Worthington
#90. Both JFK and George W. Bush were the sons of wealthy U.S. ambassadors and thus privileged to meet distinguished figures, to travel, and to see the world and think about its problems if they chose.
Nigel Hamilton
#91. This whole thing about, 'Take it easy, you had a heart attack, you might die,' I don't have time to take it easy. I might go at any point now. So, I want to get as much done as I can!
Nigel Lythgoe
#92. Every student should know that statues are meant for sitting. If we're to endure their terrible old faces leering at us, the least they can do is offer shade or a comfortable perch.
Nigel Bristow to Max McDaniels
Henry H. Neff
#93. Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system.
Nigel Calder
#94. There's almost an element of selfies that is like photo therapy. People look upon themselves in a picture and then they critique themselves without knowing so, and that's what's happening on mass on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.
Nigel Barker
#95. Here it is,' Nigel said.
Mrs D, Mrs I, Mrs FFI, Mrs C, Mrs U, Mrs LTY. That spells difficulty.'
How perfectly ridiculous!' snorted Miss Trunchbull. 'Why are all these women married?
Roald Dahl
#96. We may have made one of the biggest and most stupid collective mistakes in history by getting so worried about global warming.
Nigel Farage
#97. Accompanied by an Australian photographer named Nigel Brennan, I'd gone to Somalia to work as a freelance journalist, on a trip that was meant to last only ten days.
Amanda Lindhout
#98. The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.
Nigel Farage
#99. Racing a thoroughbred grand prix car in front of a home crowd will be a surreal and mighty experience.
Nigel Mansell
#100. British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling.
Nigel Farage
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