David Nail Quotes

I'm a worrywart, so I'm always a bit more stressed out than I should be or wish I was.

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• In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Man
  • Reality
  • Lies

• When you start writing songs on your own, there's no Bible, there's no one around you, so you're just writing, and you're left with, like, the dead space in your head to know if it's a good song or an interesting concept.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Song

• Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Words
  • Vague
  • Properly

• Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Life
  • Music
  • Business

• I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • American
  • Think

• We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Poetry
  • Guidance
  • Professor

• If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Attention
  • Away
  • Acne

• People don't slip. Time catches up with them.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• My favorite weekend activity is riding bikes to breakfast.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Breakfast
  • Favorite
  • Weekend

• I'm savoring being in California every minute, learning that traffic is just God's way of saying 'Hi.'

  

  Taylor Negron
  • God
  • Learning
  • California

• I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. You can do as much time as you like without having to pause for commercials.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Time
  • You
  • Freedom

• My dad dated a lot of supermodels.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Dad
  • Lot
  • Dated

• I know what it feels like to walk out in front of a sold-out crowd of a thousand people that are there for you, and how good that feels, but as an opener, you just have to train yourself to think that it's going to be harder.

  

  G-Eazy
  • People
  • Good
  • Yourself

• I believe in content, and I go accordingly.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Content

• What I like least about acting is that when you're only in one place, you're missing the other part of life.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Life
  • Acting
  • Place

• Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Words
  • Doing
  • Page

• Sometimes it seems like there's more footnotes than text. This isn't something we're proud of, and over time we'd like to see our footnotes steadily shrink.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Time
  • Proud
  • Sometimes

• I scored a movie called 'Endangered Species'. I worked on another movie called 'Staying Alive'. A German film called 'Fire and Ice'.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Movie
  • Fire
  • Alive

• Jimmy Garner is a very gracious guy, as he was then and he is still today.

  

  Tom Atkins
  • Today
  • Guy
  • Gracious

• Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio. I asked him to show me how to work the MPC-60... I was about maybe 17, 18, right around there.

  

  Warren G
  • Work
  • Brother
  • Chance

• There is no more beautiful scenery or climate for summer travel than Switzerland presents. The people are industrious and honest, simple and frugal in their habits, and would be very poor with all this, if it were not from the travel through their country. I wish their surplus population would emigrate to the United States.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • People
  • Country
  • Beautiful

• The world seems to belong to those who reach out and grab it with both hands. It belongs to those who do something rather than just wish and hope and plan and pray, and intend to do something someday, when everything is just right.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • World
  • Hope
  • Wish

• There's a group in California that wants to make suicide a capital offense punishable by death. That's like punishing somebody for being on a hunger strike by sending them to bed with no supper.

  

  Bill Engvall
  • Death
  • California
  • Suicide

• I'm a worrywart, so I'm always a bit more stressed out than I should be or wish I was.

  

  David Nail
  • Wish