David Nail Quotes

I think anytime you get nominated for an award, it's a very humbling thing.

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• When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince instead of the other way around.

  

  Nancy Willard
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Growing

• I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.

  

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
  • American
  • Democracy
  • Chain

• Books are up against TV and movies and video games and a multimedia society that is so busy that people don't have contemplative time any more. I worry deeply about this. In fact, I worry about everything all the time. I used to be a punk. All I wanted to do was tear everything down, and that was so much easier.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• You don't try to do more than you should.

  

  Karl Malone
  • You
  • Try
  • More

• I don't do negative things.

  

  Rajeev Shukla
  • Things
  • Negative

• My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Fans

• We, Will Ferrell and I, were approached by Sequoia, which is a big financing firm up in Palo Alto; they do a lot of Internet stuff, and they came to us and said they had an idea for a comedy site, and Will and I were sorta like, 'Yeah, we don't know. It's the Internet, we've seen it come and go.'

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • Know
  • Comedy

• When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Hands

• In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • Work
  • First
  • Drug

• There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • Like
  • Year
  • Leak

• I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • Book
  • Me
  • Slow

• Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Help
  • Day
  • Own

• In space, you need to exercise your heart since it's not pumping blood around at the same rate.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Heart
  • Space
  • Exercise

• We had to leave Australia to become international stars.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Stars
  • Become
  • Australia

• My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Life
  • Why
  • Heaven

• Radio listeners often have a very fertile imagination when it comes to body shape.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Imagination
  • Body
  • Radio

• I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Mother
  • Earth
  • Sleep

• Everybody has problems.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Problems
  • Everybody

• I usually hang around the room listening to a bit of last night's show. If there's one available, I go to the steam room every day for my voice. I spend half an hour there and then I eat, because I can't eat later than four o'clock. Then I go for a soundcheck. That's my day.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Voice
  • Everyday
  • Steam room

• I went home and went to Mustang, in the mountains between Nepal and China, and was so inspired by the landscape and the rich culture and heritage. I loved the textures, the draping, the palette. Everything was so beautiful. This little kingdom wasn't open to the world until 1991.

  

  Prabal Gurung
  • World
  • Home
  • Beautiful

• If biologists so often forget the most universal of all biologic principles [variation], it is not surprising that men and women in general expect their fellows to think and behave according to the pattern that may fit the law-maker, or the imaginary ideals for which the legislation was fashioned, but which are ill-shaped for all real individuals who try to live under them.

  

  Alfred Kinsey
  • Men
  • Live
  • Women

• I wasn't extremely happy with the season. I'd never had an off season before; this was my first off season and unfortunately it happened now.

  

  Kate Reed
  • Happy
  • Now
  • Season

• I think anytime you get nominated for an award, it's a very humbling thing.

  

  David Nail