Nooked Quotes

#1. The time of universal peace is near.
Prove this a prosp'rous day, the three-nooked world
Shall bear the olive freely.

William Shakespeare

#2. I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.

Zubin Mehta

#3. Ah, there is nothing more beautiful than the difference between the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a holy being, and the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a self-righteous being. The one is all contempt; the other, all pity.

Alexander MacLaren

#4. Civilization is the commercialization of survival.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#5. You can't complain about the pressures, the paparazzi, the madness. Because that is the job. I've always understood that's the deal.

Avril Lavigne

#6. Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally.

Linus Torvalds

#7. I always want to be known as a good Test cricketer. I believe I have the ability to score big runs in the longer format. For that, I know I have to score heavily in whatever opportunities I get.

Suresh Raina

#8. If I meet someone and discover that they're an absolute, very earnest nationalist, it's unlikely that I'm going to get much closer to them. I don't understand them. It doesn't matter where they're from, I just don't get it. I'm a multi-national kind of guy.

William Gibson

#9. The boy is of an outspoken disposition, and had made an opprobrious remark respecting my personal appearance."
"What did he say about your appearance?"
"I have forgotten, sir," said Jeeves, with a touch of austerity. "But it was opprobrious.

P.G. Wodehouse

#10. Generally, a lot of the things people think are made up are real, a lot of the things people think are real are made up, a lot of the things people think are spontaneous are cleverly faked, and a lot of the things people think are fake are spontaneous.

Stewart Lee

#11. When the music note grows tired
we will land on the wings of a guardian -
One already accustomed to my attempts to fly
One aware of my weakness for a beautiful try

Phibby Venable

#12. The game just embarrasses you until you feel inadequate and pathetic. You want to cry like a child.

Craig Stadler