James Nicoll Quotes
Folks would better off dipping their heads in a bucket of liquid nitrogen and battering them against a tree very very hard than reading Baxter's Titan. It would not surprise me if reading that book causes birth defects.
Quotes to Explore
-
There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.
-
I love to cook. I could never give that up.
-
Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
-
Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
-
I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
-
All good actors are actresses. The more like a woman they are, the better they act, because a man's salvation is his femininity. Women have stronger sensibilities than men, which allows them to go a bit deeper when they are on and off the stage.
-
I do make a good ragu pasta, which everyone seems to like. Or that could be just me talking; who knows what they really think. I actually stole the recipe from my older sister Vera, who also loves to cook. I took all my recipes from her.
-
I never said most of the things I said.
-
I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
-
Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
-
I think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.
-
I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
-
I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.
-
We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
-
You like the style of the people you like because it reflects something inside them.
-
It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'
-
I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
-
A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
-
I've always fed off negativity and wanting people to hate me. That attitude really fueled me for my entire career. So being a guy that people like and want to cheer for is the weird part.
-
The L.A. Times, it's an anti-Christian publication, as is the New York Times.
-
This solitude opressed her; she was accustomed to have her thoughts confirmed by others or, at all events, contradicted; it was too dreadful not to know whether she was thinking right or wrong.
-
Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.
-
In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
-
Folks would better off dipping their heads in a bucket of liquid nitrogen and battering them against a tree very very hard than reading Baxter's Titan. It would not surprise me if reading that book causes birth defects.
