James Nesbitt Quotes

People love watching medical dramas - they also love watching documentaries about the workings of the brain.

James Nesbitt

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• Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.

  

  Larry Elder
  • People
  • Home
  • American

• I don't care much about hardware. Nintendo games are some of the best games in the world, and from a more graphical standpoint, the Wii can't do what a PS3 or 360 can do.

  

  Warren Spector
  • World
  • Best
  • Care

• If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • America
  • Military
  • Financial

• It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Know
  • Stupid
  • Doing

• This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Hair
  • Rip
  • T-shirt

• The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • People
  • Never
  • Constitution

• We call ourselves a dog's 'master' - but who ever dared to call himself the 'master' of a cat? We own a dog - he is with us as a slave and inferior because we wish him to be. But we entertain a cat - he adorns our hearth as a guest, fellow-lodger, and equal because he wishes to be there.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Wish
  • Dog
  • Cat

• Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Reading
  • Poetry
  • Young

• Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Air

• Obviously, after every film you do, you wonder what you're going to do next.

  

  Madhur Mittal
  • You
  • Film
  • Wonder

• I mean, it's fun for us to talk about issues. You know, there's no one issue we spend a lot of time on probably, because he gets to do that all day with somebody else who's a lot more expert at issues than I am.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Day

• Ireland, in breadth, and for wholesomeness and serenity of climate, far surpasses Britain; for the snow scarcely ever lies there above three days: no man makes hay in the summer for winter's provision, or builds stables for his beasts of burden... the island abounds in milk and honey.

  

  Venerable Bede
  • Man
  • Lies
  • Summer

• Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Will
  • Racism
  • Discrimination

• A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Together
  • Nature
  • Understanding

• The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Human
  • Function
  • Exploration

• As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.

  

  Victoria Smurfit
  • Pretty
  • Joy
  • Woman

• Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Forever
  • Root
  • Assurance

• There are always lessons that can be learned from another manufacturer. You can learn from their successes and from their mistakes also. But you cannot replicate; you can only learn.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • You
  • Learn
  • Mistakes

• If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.

  

  David Horowitz
  • Time
  • King
  • Thanks

• You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Up
  • World

• I'm sure that the meaning of the songs that I've written will change for me over the years, the same way that I can't even say what inspired some of the songs that I've been singing for a long time anymore.

  

  Angel Olsen
  • Time
  • Long
  • Singing

• Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Lazy

• 'When a man leaves a woman, especially when it was perceived that he has left for a piece of ass-a good one!-there are 50 percent of the population who will love the woman who was left,' he told me.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Good

• People love watching medical dramas - they also love watching documentaries about the workings of the brain.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • People
  • Brain