Kristian Nairn Quotes

I haven't read more than two pages, but my mother is a George Martin super fan.

Kristian Nairn

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• In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.

  

  Wayne Allard
  • Country
  • Business
  • Growth

• Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Up
  • Different
  • Like

• Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Hair

• You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Want
  • You
  • Know

• I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Freedom
  • Creative
  • Someone

• You don't get to the highest levels of the sport without having the basics in order.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • You
  • Without
  • Basics

• I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Fear
  • Pride
  • Gratitude

• I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Balance

• Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were moving in opposite directions and passed each other by 32 miles.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Moving
  • Two
  • Japanese

• Historically, the 19th century is defined by annexations and internal turmoil. For instance, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 gave more than half of Mexican territory to the United States.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • More
  • United States
  • Mexican

• Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Deep
  • Winter
  • Roots

• Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.

  

  Felicia Hemans
  • Suffering
  • Things
  • Silent

• Australia is an island surrounded by water. My fondest memories growing up were trips to the beach, walking around the harbor and playing in the beautiful parks.

  

  Tammin Sursok
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Growing

• Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Failure
  • Street
  • Detour

• Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?

  

  Carlos Drummond de Andrade
  • Poetry
  • Poet
  • Necessary

• At present they philosophers seem to be in a very lamentable condition, and such as the poets have given us but a faint notion of in their descriptions of the punishment of Sisyphus and Tantalus. For what can be imagin'd more tormenting, than to seek with eagerness, what for ever flies us; and seek for it in a place, where 'tis impossible it can ever exist?

  

  David Hume
  • Present

• If you are you, 24 hours a day, then you do not have to remember who you are supposed to be in different situations - something that I imagine could be troublesome.

  

  Bill Dixon
  • Different
  • Remember

• Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no mercy on the faults of other people; but it has also a sublime faith in them.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Faith
  • Failure
  • Virtues

• I came to understand that I'm never going to be the perfect mother, but I'm going to do the best I can. Same goes for everything in my life.

  

  Shakira
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Perfect

• I was able to accomplish pretty much everything I set out to do with my run on Superman, and I'm really proud of how it turned out. I hope that readers enjoyed it, too!

  

  Chris Roberson
  • Hope
  • Pretty
  • Proud

• I haven't read more than two pages, but my mother is a George Martin super fan.

  

  Kristian Nairn
  • Mother