Sam Neill (Nigel John Dermot Neill) Quotes

If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.

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• I loved the world of imagination.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • World
  • Imagination
  • Loved

• Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Art
  • Criticism

• We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Long
  • Summer
  • June

• I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Always
  • Been
  • Enthusiastic

• I don't really go out at all.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Really
  • Go
  • Out

• If I can save 25 billion dollars in terms of reduction of import, I will be adding one percent to the GDP. By conserving the oil energy by the people, the GDP will become 5.5 percent, and this will change the economy of the country.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • People
  • Country
  • Energy

• I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Dog
  • Webster

• I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Work
  • Brain
  • Helps

• Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • House
  • Air
  • Sick

• There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Lost
  • Conversation
  • Slow

• The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Culture
  • Kitchen
  • Tough

• Some children are tackling tough times without the support that can help them because the adults in their life are scared to ask.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Life
  • Children
  • Help

• Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • World
  • Best
  • Beer

• In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Up
  • God
  • Culture

• I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Art
  • Funny
  • Inspiration

• That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Way
  • Path
  • Reach

• I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Life
  • Live
  • My Life

• Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life new again.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Art
  • Shadow
  • Backgrounds

• I'm terrified I'm about to die, or that all the people I love are about to die, every second of every day.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • People
  • Die
  • Day

• I can't sing, but I'll sing over this chord progression, like, over and over, for however long it takes - sometimes it's, like, two minutes, sometimes it's 20 minutes - until I've found like a hook or something that I'm really happy with. And then, basically, it just like that's my melody, and that's where I start from.

  

  Flume
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Start

• Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Health
  • Government

• When I was designing Mrs. Obama's dress, half of me was saying, 'What would Halston do?' The other half was saying, 'Be who you are.' Halston, me, America, India - it's been such a great combination. This is what makes me who I am, with the clean lines I learned from Halston and complicated Indian over-the-top Bollywood traditions.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • Great
  • America
  • Dress

• If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.

  

  Sam Neill
  • America
  • Want
  • Learn