James Nesbitt Quotes

I'm not very good at standard English.

James Nesbitt

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• A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a guard against the elements and strangers. By contrast the good ol' American front porch seems to stand for positivity and openness; a platform from which to welcome or wave farewell; a place where things of significance could happen.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Good
  • American
  • Stand

• Building codes are a good thing. People who throw rocks at inspectors are being naive. It's a lot like police officers; we want them around unless they stop us for a ticket. It's the same with inspectors.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • People
  • Good
  • Stop

• When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Country
  • English
  • Thought

• I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Up
  • Thought
  • Painting

• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• Our players are mad, but it's good mad.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Good
  • Mad
  • Players

• There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!

  

  Patricia Sun
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Want

• My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I think I've always had a 40-year-old body, and now that I'm actually there I'm like, 'Hey, pretty good, huh?'

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Good
  • Think
  • Pretty

• 'The Ecologist' has lost money from the day it was launched in 1970, and will continue until the last edition is printed. It was never set up as a business venture. It was set up as a campaign, and like all good campaigns, it costs. Its various backers have, over the years, been happy to pay that cost.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Up
  • Good
  • Money

• Sport's always a good thing - it's healthy, and it takes your mind off other things.

  

  Cara Black
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Healthy

• Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • People
  • Good
  • Laugh

• I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Great
  • Country
  • Parents

• Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Artist

• I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Good
  • Heaven
  • Process

• An ideal day for me is a combination of a fun-exciting creative moment with work partners, some laughs and games with my kids, a good surf session, and great conversation with friends around a meal.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• I think that I, Jack McBrayer, am somewhat of a people pleaser, and I do enjoy being good at my job. But I would never endanger my life with gullibility or naivete.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• One of the challenges of buying local advertising is, how do you know if it worked? How do you know if it's got value? We're moving toward an e-commerce experience for local, an Amazon-like experience for local.

  

  Jeremy Stoppelman
  • Experience
  • Moving
  • Value

• I am my father's daughter: I have his language, his expressions.

  

  Dinah Manoff
  • Father
  • Daughter

• The Dead was cool, It's a great horror story. I went to the casting director of this movie and talked to him, then they called my agent and had me come in and read for it and they wanted to use me.

  

  Matthew McGrory
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Cool

• We do not even inquire whether a black man is a rebel in arms, or not, if he is black, be he friend or foe, he is thought best kept at a distance. It is hardly possible God will let us succeed while such enormities are practiced.

  

  James A. Garfield
  • God
  • Black
  • Friend

• You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.'

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Heart
  • Spiritual

• I'm not very good at standard English.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Good
  • English