James Nicoll Quotes

A lot of my stories end with 'And when I regained consciousness, there was a crowd standing around looking at me.'

James Nicoll

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• Any actor is happy to be involved with something that's challenging, controversial, and not easily palatable. Things that are too dumbed down or easy to swallow are uninteresting... It's good when people have such a polarizing response.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Good
  • Happy

• I can do a little bit of comedy. I can be in an in-between place, where I can do a little bit.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Comedy
  • I Can
  • Where

• Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Person
  • Point
  • Lie

• I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Up
  • Good
  • She

• Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.

  

  Laurance Rockefeller
  • People
  • Lifestyle
  • Finding

• In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.

  

  Gayle Gardner
  • Think
  • You
  • End

• I don't spend any time at all thinking about my personal wealth. I suppose if I had nothing, I might think, 'I have nothing.'

  

  B. Wayne Hughes
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Wealth

• When you are away from the game and busy with other areas, you realize that the world does not revolve around baseball.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • World
  • Game
  • Baseball

• Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Life
  • Nature
  • New Life

• Jim Brooks is a very powerful director and it was a lot of intense work.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Work
  • Powerful
  • Very

• I'm a huge baseball fan and follow it very closely.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Baseball
  • Very
  • Follow

• I don't play the bass. I'm not in a band. I tried to think of ways I could touch base with the troops and support what we're doing.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Think
  • Support
  • Band

• Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.

  

  Sallust
  • Good
  • Money
  • Friends

• I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud I write literary fiction but secretly wish I wrote commercial.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Wish
  • Proud
  • Write

• I think when you go to a store and you go to the Justin Timberlake page and stream it from there, that's great, but that means you went to the store. iTunes Radio lets you discover it without you having to think about it.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Great
  • Think
  • Page

• I literally couldn't get anyone to hire me. Having a woman do sports was seen as too risky.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Me
  • Woman
  • Sports

• The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • People
  • Experience
  • Bitter

• Some sensations are sleeps that take up all the extent of the mind like a fog, don't let us think, don't let us act, don't let us be clearly.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Up
  • Mind

• I don't know one lens from another. That's not my job. It's the cinematographer's job. But I can talk to people.

  

  Penny Marshall
  • People
  • Job

• Google was like the only company that was like, 'We're making so much money; let's take a picture of every street in the world.' Nobody does that.

  

  Ben Silbermann
  • World
  • Money
  • Picture

• I don't want children anyway,' Caz says. 'So I'm getting nothing out of this whatsoever. I want my entire reproductive system taken out, and replaced with spare lungs, for when I start smoking. I want that option. This is pointless.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Children
  • Taken
  • Option

• Without the funding Amtrak needs to keep operating, we will soon see people that rely on Amtrak to get them to work each day, waiting for a train that isn't coming.

  

  Corrine Brown
  • People
  • Work
  • Waiting

• I always have a suitcase ready to go. My wife and I are both very much like this. We're both vagabonds, and we have been since the time we were married.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • Time
  • Wife

• A lot of my stories end with 'And when I regained consciousness, there was a crowd standing around looking at me.'

  

  James Nicoll