Quotes About Nimmo

#1. God is going to use me to reach the young people, I don't know how, I don't know when.

Beth Nimmo

#2. I liked to play dress-up.

Vanessa Paradis

#3. The mind is wired by society, the heart is wired by your deepest desires for a blissful life.

Steven Redhead

#4. If you believe in yourself, nothing is impossible. Without a dream you cannot have an aim and without an aim you cannot achieve and to dream you must have faith in yourself.

Koyel Mitra

#5. I try not to identify too strongly with any of my characters. I like to stand back and see them objectively. I think this is why I often use boys instead of girls, just in case I get too close and lose the overall picture.

Jenny Nimmo

#6. You let their friendship continue because Maisie looks after your son while you're gallivanting around the country disguised as Sherlock Holmes - Uncle Paton Yewbeam

Jenny Nimmo

#7. Some people in this life really enjoy being sent up and Nicholas Parsons is one of them because he's a sadomasochist.

Derek Nimmo

#8. He found himself in a room not unlike the shop. All books again, packed tight on shelves or laying in piles on every surface. It was a cozy room, for all that ; it smelled of warm, rich words and very deep thoughts.

Jenny Nimmo

#9. The seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining. Every day, the front page of The Drudge Report is littered with stories of government assaults on our civil liberties - from local government officials all the way up to the Oval Office.

Bob Barr

#10. Nicholas Parsons' time at the University of Glasgow seems to be absolutely shrouded in mystery.

Derek Nimmo

#11. Inspiration comes from the world around me. I'm an inveterate eavesdropper.

Jenny Nimmo

#12. What if you were to die today ... Tomorrow is not a promise but a chance.

Beth Nimmo

#13. Fortunately for us, life's highway has as many on ramps as it does off ramps.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#14. We were American citizens. We were incarcerated by our American government in American internment camps here in the United States. The term 'Japanese internment camp' is both grammatically and factually incorrect.

George Takei

#15. Every book that you pick up takes you a step away from your real world, but if you read a book about magic, it takes you an extra two steps.

Jenny Nimmo

#16. Angel, when I look into the future, all I see is you! All I want is you.
I know the feeling.

Joss Whedon

#17. An authentic spirituality does not cater to culture; it calls culture to accountability.

Joan D. Chittister

#18. It was an exceptional sensation, reading by spiderlight.

Jenny Nimmo

#19. This will be my last year, Lord. I have gotten what I can. Thank You.

Beth Nimmo

#20. Waiting and hoping is a hard thing to do when you've already been waiting and hoping for almost as long as you can bear it.

Jenny Nimmo

#21. There's nothing like the peace of the countryside, the quiet and the lack of distraction. It helps you to focus your mind.

Jenny Nimmo

#22. The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.

Robert Benchley

#23. My father died when I was quite small, so my uncle used to buy me books and read them to me.

Jenny Nimmo

#24. Desiring is a part of dreaming.

Beth Nimmo

#25. Love was a feeling completely bound up with color, like thousands of rainbows superimposed one on top of the other.

Paulo Coelho

#26. I'm pretty outdoorsy. My family used to live in the hills in the middle of nowhere pretty much. We literally used to have bow and arrows and air rifles and were throwing knives.

Liam Hemsworth

#27. I'm not the hero, Blair. And somehow I still got the princess."
"Honey, I'm pretty sure you're the beast. And I am definitely not a princess. I thought we just established that."
"You're my princess. Dirty mouth, naughty lingerie, wicked tongue, formidable temper, and all.

Chanel Cleeton

#28. Eternity is not just looking to the future and our place with God in Heaven, but it is looking at our Eternity as if it were only moments away.

Beth Nimmo

#29. One of the great ball-givers in the United Kingdom is Nicholas Parsons.

Derek Nimmo

#30. If you splurge, do it on an item that's fun, because you'll feel good whenever you put it on.

Lela Rose

#31. Calculated risks are part of what you do, but the idea that something completely crazy will work just because it's completely crazy is completely crazy.

Bill Walsh

#32. Dad will come back,' said Charlie quietly.
When Mrs Bone turned to him, she didn't look sad at all, in fact she was smiling.
'You know, Charlie, I'm beginning to believe you,' she said. 'After what happened to Henry, I can believe almost anything.

Jenny Nimmo

#33. I work in a room overlooking the river. I try to get to my desk as soon as I've fed my cats and chickens. I use a blue 3B pencil and scribble away for about 20 pages before transferring it to the computer.

Jenny Nimmo

#34. There's no safety outside of God.

Beth Nimmo

#35. I've read up on magic, and I think it sets you free, and it gives you hope. You can explore worlds you didn't know existed. It stretches your imagination, and I like my own imagination to be stretched and also the children I'm telling the story to. It gives you a sense of wonder.

Jenny Nimmo