David Nicholls Quotes

I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely.

David Nicholls

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• When I was a kid growing up, I always thought I would be a journalist, and I thought, you know, I'd cover stories about other people, and we're always taught never to make the story about yourself.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Brain
  • Study
  • Same

• I believe in reincarnation of the soul.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Believe
  • Soul
  • I Believe

• Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Justice
  • Liberty
  • Moderation

• Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.

  

  Wendell Johnson
  • Remember
  • Words
  • Never

• It's important to me that I look good on television because, let's face it, I'm single, and you want somebody to watch the show and fall in love with you.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Good
  • Important
  • Fall

• I am passionate about acting. 'Girls in our family are not allowed to act' is quite an outdated thought to have. They did it till my mother, but now no more.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Thought

• Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Thinking
  • Thought
  • Doing

• If you're confident, then it helps you live up to your potential, but if you believe because you went to a certain school it means you're entitled to have a particular career, you'll fall flat on your face eventually.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Live

• Slow down, everyone. You're moving too fast.

  

  Galveston Giant
  • Moving
  • Down
  • Slow

• Play as well as you can; that's it, as opposed to creating these odd paranoias, trying to be something you're not.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Trying
  • You
  • Creating

• So many songwriters peak in their early 20s because they're living off their passions.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Living
  • Early
  • Peak

• Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part of being human.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Great
  • Different
  • Culture

• We need some honesty and sincerity instead of corrupt government in Washington.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Honesty

• I had gone through game, after game, after game, first being a professor at Harvard, then being a psychedelic spokesman, and still people were constantly looking into my eyes, like 'Do you know?' Just that subtle little look, and I was constantly looking into their eyes 'Do you know?'

  

  Ram Dass
  • People
  • Game
  • Eyes

• If we want to transform reality, we begin with ourselves. We do not ask the world to change, and we do not fight against society. It has to be us ourselves who affirm our own values.

  

  Alejandro Jodorowsky
  • World
  • Society
  • Reality

• When the woman showed her love for the children that were not her own, and wept over them, I saw in her the living God, and understood What men live by.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • God
  • Men
  • Live

• A small act is worth a million thoughts.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Small
  • Thoughts

• In the end, I'm an actor. I'm paid for what I bring to the screen.

  

  Eric Braeden

• Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious economic implications.

  

  Peter Bart
  • Fall
  • Serious

• It is hard because I have played since I was three years old, and everything is tennis, tennis. I am super-passionate about it. And I love it. But I always like to cook, I listen to music. I just try to be like a regular girl.

  

  Garbine Muguruza
  • Music
  • Girl
  • Tennis

• All is summed up in the prayer which a young female human is said to have uttered recently: "O God, make me a normal twentieth-century girl!" Thanks to our labors, this will mean increasingly: "Make me a minx, a moron, and a parasite.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • God
  • Girl

• I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely.

  

  David Nicholls