James Nesbitt Quotes

My nightmare is that I don't want to be OK.

James Nesbitt

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• Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Real
  • Game
  • Fire

• I have always loathed working out.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Always
  • Working
  • Out

• I get paid the same money if I'm fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It's the future. The Internet, many people watch it.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Money
  • Future

• I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Simple
  • Like
  • Thing

• Some people are embarrassed to say they came from East St. Louis, Ill., but now more people want to claim it. I grew up in a community center and I knew what it gave me. I always knew I wanted to give back and help people because people helped me.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • People
  • Up
  • Help

• I read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Too Much

• It doesn't matter what country or what political system you are from. Space brings you together.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Country
  • Together
  • Political

• A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • People
  • Great
  • Intelligence

• I don't know that it's particularly good for my writing process, but I have gotten some very valuable writing ideas and advice through Twitter and Facebook and other social network sites.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Advice

• I've been drinking and using since I was 13.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Drinking
  • Been
  • Using

• So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Why
  • You
  • Write

• Come on we're going for a ride bitch (No!) Sit up front (Well, we can't just leave Hailie alone, what if she wakes up?) We'll be right back... Well I will, you'll be in the trunk

  

  Eminem
  • Alone
  • Ride
  • Trunk

• How far you are I just don't know The distance I'm willing to go I pick up a stone that I cast to the sky Hoping for some kind of sign

  

  Norah Jones
  • Up
  • Sky
  • Distance

• The good conscience is an invention of the devil.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • Good
  • Devil

• In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere fact of committing such action at all is to do wrong.

  

  Aristotle
  • Time
  • Action

• When you haven't met someone, regardless of whether they're an author or not, when you're taking their work, and you are in some way filtering it or interpreting it, of course there's potential for them to feel that you have, in some way, not lived up to what it could have been.

  

  Laeta Kalogridis
  • Up
  • Work
  • Author

• After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Long

• I think the 'New York Times' reviews overall tend to overlook popular fiction, whether you're a man, woman, white, black, purple or pink. I think there are a lot of readers who would like to see reviews that belong in the range of commercial fiction.

  

  Jodi Picoult
  • Black
  • Popular
  • Pink

• I love surfing, rock climbing, cycling - all that stuff. But it's just amazing that I can inspire people with my running. It's humbling, really.

  

  Dean Karnazes
  • People
  • Running
  • Amazing

• When someone builds a bridge, he uses engineers who have been certified as knowing what they are doing. Yet when someone builds you a software program, he has no similar certification, even though your safety may be just as dependent upon that software working as it is upon the bridge supporting your weight.

  

  Dave Parnas
  • May
  • Safety
  • Bridge

• I was told that if I wanted to be a leading man in Hollywood, I couldnt possibly be thought of as gay.

  

  Sean Maher
  • Men
  • Gay

• Because for me, '60s pop music is amongst the most complicated or complex music because it has so many resonances which strike you. The music itself is often simple, but the way that I interpret it, or the way I think it's interpreted culturally, is very complex.

  

  Tim Gane
  • Music
  • Way
  • Simple

• Learning is a process not an event.

  

  Elliott Masie
  • Learning
  • Process
  • Event

• My nightmare is that I don't want to be OK.

  

  James Nesbitt