Top 100 Quotes About Nat
#1. There is a seamless web to life.. all life is sacred..
Nat Hentoff
#2. For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.
Nat King Cole
#3. If I'm not doing anything, I get really antsy and bored.
Nat Wolff
#4. Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.
Mike Tyson
#5. One day you gone look up and realize that you will be forty years old still calling on 'options' and the rest of us will have husbands or potential husbands and a few children.
Nat L. Johns
#7. I kind of help solve world peace and world hunger. That's just kind of an average day off for me.
Nat Wolff
#8. Probably more than anybody else, I loved Nat 'King' Cole as a performer - not only his singing but his piano playing. Whenever he had a new record come out, I'd get it and try to learn how he was playing. And he was one of the nicest people I'd ever met.
Bruce Forsyth
#9. Whenever I see that kind of story, where everybody agrees, I know there's something wrong.
Nat Hentoff
#10. I love Whitney Houston, Stevie Wonder, Brandi, Sade, Nat King Cole. I like the Beatles. I listen to a lot of that.
Leah LaBelle
#11. Nat King Cole was a really big influence.
Bryan White
#12. Ne nevere mo ne lakked hire pite;
Tendre-herted, slydynge of corage;
But trewely, I kan nat telle hire age.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#13. Of the great singing stars of the 1940s and '50s, only one - Nat King Cole - died young, at age 45.
Robert Gottlieb
#14. Making a movie is still very difficult in Hollywood, regardless of what you have and what level you're at. It is a house of cards, and things have to perfectly align.
Nat Faxon
#15. My dad's family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really musical and her father was the touring pianist with Nat King Cole. My family was an explosive mixture of politics, religion and music - no wonder I turned out how I did.
Grace Jones
#16. In the end, the only way is to be better than that person who let you down ... and better than the monster you used to be ...
Paul Nat
#17. There's no master plan; I'm just going with what I'm inspired to do and what I get asked to do, and luckily the things I've been the most passionate about, I've gotten to do. And a lot of times I've gone up for movies that I didn't really care that much about, and I never got that.
Nat Wolff
#19. [Referring to the birds:] Nat listened to the tearing sound of splintering wood, and wondered how many million years of memory were stored in those little brains, behind the stabbing beaks, the piercing eyes, now giving them this instinct to destroy mankind with all the deft precision of machines.
Daphne Du Maurier
#20. You got the good heart. Underneath all the other stuff. Good heart is eighty-five percent of everything in life.' ...
'What is the other fifteen percent?' Nat said. 'Just out of curiosity?'
'Politeness,' Mr. Jones said without hesitation. 'And keeping a level head.
Michael Chabon
#21. Ek gret effect men write in place lite; Th'entente is al, and nat the lettres space.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#22. When you're NAT on the net, you're NOT on the net
Hugh Jackman
#23. My mom was an amazing singer and music was a big part of my life, so I grew up listening to Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Henry Mancini; I used to watch 'The Andy Williams Show' on TV. I was very musical, so I was watching stuff that most kids my age wouldn't be interested in.
Gloria Estefan
#25. I ordered a coffee and a little something to eat and savored the warmth and dryness. Somewhere in the background Nat King Cole sang a perky tune. I watched the rain beat down on the road outside and told myself that one day this would be twenty years ago.
Bill Bryson
#26. Martin Williams persistently gets at essences, and that is why he has contributed so much to the very small body of authentic jazz criticism.
Nat Hentoff
#27. I'm an old soul. I like the Nat King Cole; Sam Cooke is my favorite singer of all time. But I'm into neo-soul; I'm into R&B. Some of the modern stuff appeals to me, but most of it comes from an older time.
Trai Byers
#28. Every single movie I go up for I'm just checking the phone to see if the e-mail's come in, to see if I got the part yet, which makes me more anxious.
Nat Wolff
#29. I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.
Nat King Cole
#30. My favorite singer to this day is Nat King Cole. I've tried to emulate his phrasing. It is so absolutely beautiful to listen to his lovely voice.
Johnny Mathis
#31. Once you throw down that gauntlet of ultimatum, the "one more thing" will happen. Nat figured it probably wouldn't even matter much what it was. It would be the straw that broke her. And it had been defined. Prepared for. So it would happen. It was only a matter of time.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#32. I respected Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra. Those were my heroes, and they were 10 years older than I was.
Tony Bennett
#33. As you are entered with the class of Nat. philosophy, give to it the hours of lecture, but devote all your other time to Mathematics, avoiding company as the bane of all progress.
Thomas Jefferson
#34. Also, I'd like to play an athlete again, while I'm still physically fit, or a musician, like Nat King Cole, because I play the trumpet and sing. I'd like to incorporate that into a character.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
#35. I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then, when they took her away, it hit me. I got scared all over again and began to feel giddy. Then it came to me ... I was a father.
Nat King Cole
#36. I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.
Nat Wolff
#37. There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!
Nat King Cole
#38. I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.
Nat King Cole
#39. I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
Imelda May
#40. She gives me the finger and turns back around. "Did you see that?" I flinch at the gesture. "That is completely illegal in here.
Addison Moore
#41. Our destinies depend on the choices we make. Be it wise or stupid.
Paul Nat
#42. Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
Nat King Cole
#43. Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install it in about an hour, and it makes it trivial to deal with software management issues like deploying updates and creating standard package sets for your various machines.
Nat Friedman
#44. It's jarring to go from one amazing experience to another that feels ordinary. I don't quite know how to explain it. You see the uniqueness of what you've been doing, and disassociating yourself from it and going back to the 'normal' life is tough.
Nat Wolff
#45. The movie I'm really excited about that I had really fun doing is 'Feed the Dog.' It's with Nat Wolff and Selena Gomez. It's really fun. It's raunchy, like 'Superbad' meets 'Risky Business,' kind of. I got to be a really fun character, an out-there Mrs. Robinson-type character. I get to seduce Nat.
Elisabeth Shue
#46. For her, Mr. Splitfoot is a two that is sometimes a one, mothers and their children, Nat and Ruth, life and death. "Are
Samantha Hunt
#47. Nat was so easy about these things. Alex guessed that's what happened when you slept with another girl every week on an overcrowded island with too small a surface. She had no choice but to practice casualness.
Harper Bliss
#48. I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profound advice.
Diahann Carroll
#49. I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.
Nat King Cole
#50. Looking about to burst into laughter, he replied, You have two male dogs in a pen which is wrapped in bright pink fishnet. They look like they're strippers. They look like hookers, Nat!
Belle Aurora
#51. Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Eckstine, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Paul Whiteman, Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra, Lionel Hampton, the Mills Brothers, Woody Herman, and Nat King Cole. "Mona Lisa, men have named you,
George Hodgman
#52. it's only through taking risks that success can be found.
Jamie Bautista
#53. Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.
Nat Hentoff
#54. Never live your life on the edge when you have loved ones who love you and who are depending on you.
Paul Nat
#55. A lot of times people come up to me saying 'oh my god you can see,' and they think they're the first person to think of that joke, but they're probably the 10,000th one to say that joke.
Nat Wolff
#56. I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
Nat King Cole
#57. My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.
Mose Allison
#58. Why has slamming a ball with a racquet become so obsessive a pleasure for so many of us? It seems clear to me that a primary attraction of the sport is the opportunity it gives to release aggression physically without being arrested for felonious assault.
Nat Hentoff
#59. There's something about the schedule of working in TV that's attractive. You know exactly what the next six months is going to be like: You'll work Monday through Friday and have the weekends off, and then there's going to be a hiatus here, so you can kind of plan a little bit.
Nat Faxon
#60. I hope to repair certain important connections burned through by artificial speed, by inattentiveness. I walk, as everyone does, to see what lies ahead. I walk to remember.
Paul Salopek
#61. Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#62. The manner in which I learned to read and write, not only had great influence on my own mind, as I acquired it with the most perfect ease, so much so, that I have no recollection whatever
of learning the alphabet.
Nat Turner
#63. Most of us remember Nat King Cole as a vocalist. His warm, grainy baritone is still so closely identified with such familiar ballads as 'Stardust' and 'The Christmas Song' that it's hard to imagine anyone else performing them.
Terry Teachout
#64. I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
Nat King Cole
#65. I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently.
Nat Wolff
#66. Johnny Mercer started Capitol Records, and he brought in Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Nat King Cole. He just let them sing whatever they wanted, and it became the best record company in America.
Tony Bennett
#67. The benefit of film is that you're shooting something for an intense period of time - and then it's over, and you move on to something else. In TV, you're doing the same thing over and over.
Nat Faxon
#68. Nat: Maybe you broke something.
Midge: I know. Never fall down, never fall down!
Nat: Ah, it's nothing. I fall down every morning. I get up, I have a cup of coffee, I fall down. That's the system. Two years old, you stand up and then BOOM! seventy years later, you fall down again.
Herb Gardner
#69. I've been kind of lucky. I've always just kind of followed whatever my passion was, and that seems to have led me to better places than if I had followed some career trajectory, which I wouldn't even know how to start.
Nat Wolff
#70. We fought for equality for all, for women too. For freethinking, fighting the lies of church and state, for what Nat called the Republic of Letters. That was what we believed in twenty years ago. But now, seems like all that has gone. It's church and Sunday best, and votes for men." "What
M.J. Carter
#71. By the ancient bond of the spellclave, I command you, Spider. Stop, or be turned to stone!
Katherine Roberts
#72. There are a lot of people who've been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop.
Nat Friedman
#73. Surfers are members of a different race of people from the man in the street
Nat Young
#74. This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
Nat Friedman
#75. It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.
Nat King Cole
#77. I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.
Nat King Cole
#78. I've been playing my instrument since I was about three or four. That's when I started banging around on the piano, trying to be like The Beatles.
Nat Wolff
#79. Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.
Nat King Cole
#80. I got the message. All of us get the message, sooner or later. If you get it before it's too late or before you're too old, you'll pull through all right.
Nat King Cole
#81. Help one another, was a favorite Plumfield motto, and Nat learned how much sweetness is added to life by trying to live up to it.
Louisa May Alcott
#82. No, I wasn't trying to make Nat Turner look stupid. I was trying to make him more human. More like me. Angry, impotent, confused about his own sexuality. Wait a minute, that didn't come out right. Is that microphone really on?
William Styron
#83. Nat played away and never minded anyone, while his eyes shone, his cheeks reddened, and his thin fingers flew, as he hugged the old fiddle and made it speak to all their hearts the language that he loved.
Louisa May Alcott
#84. Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it's become a real problem for administrators that they don't have nice tools to manage their servers and desktops.
Nat Friedman
#85. Nat thought to himself that "they" were no doubt considering the problem at that very moment, but whatever "they" decided to do in London and the big cities would not help the people here, three hundred miles away. Each householder must look after his own.
Daphne Du Maurier
#86. Tina leans forward and asks quietly, 'Do you? You know? Love her?'
Squeezing Nat's knee again, I reply, 'She's teachin' me how.
Belle Aurora
#87. I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.
Nat Hentoff
#88. The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
Nat King Cole
#89. I'm lucky that I got to start acting when I was so young, and people put me in these movies. A lot of people don't get to play these parts because they start a little older.
Nat Wolff
#90. A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.
Nat Friedman
#91. I have very weirdly realistic dreams where it could be real life, except it's not.
Nat Wolff
#92. I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book [The Origin of Species] than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science.
[Letter to Charles Darwin 12 Dec 1859]
Joseph Dalton Hooker
#93. I'll never totally get away from being who I am, which first, to many, is the daughter of Nat King Cole, which became even more intensified with the 'Unforgettable' album.
Natalie Cole
#94. The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.
Nat King Cole
#95. Nat, how do you spell orgasm?"
"You don't spell it, you feel it
Kristen Proby
#96. I was a 12 year old kid in Northern Idaho listening to Billie Holiday and Lena Horne and Sarah Vaughan and Nat King Cole. This whole genre of music is a part of who I am.
Cheyenne Jackson
#97. OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.
Nat Friedman
#98. I love hugging you," Luke said. "I love how our bodies fit when we're still ... I feel like a broken record when I say I know there are a hundred reasons why we shouldn't but Nat, I really want to kiss you.
Ophelia London
#99. Although it's been said many times, many ways ... Merry Christmas to you!
Nat King Cole
#100. I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket.
Nat Faxon
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