James Nicoll Quotes

I have hated every Kress I read, especially this one, but the Bear is a standard Bear and if you like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing you'll like.

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• I'm an escapist kind of writer.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Kind
  • Writer
  • Escapist

• The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Wise
  • Contradict

• If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Great
  • Political
  • Ugly

• My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I'm willing and I'm eager, and not just about my writing - I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • World
  • Writing
  • Family

• Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Time
  • Fear
  • Best

• People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Important
  • Health

• I stand by the principle of honesty, fair play, and trustworthiness.

  

  T. S. Kalyanaraman
  • Play
  • Honesty
  • Stand

• Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Up
  • May
  • Help

• It has always been a dream of mine to put a play on film.

  

  Laila Robins
  • Dream
  • Play
  • Always

• When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I'd see the interest they'd have in trying to get a photo with an artist or get a ticket stub signed. I guess, to me, that's the ultimate thing – to know that what you've done is important enough to other people that they want to take a picture with you.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • People
  • Important
  • Artist

• I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.

  

  Irving Stone
  • Art
  • Religious
  • Thought

• It takes a certain amount of courage to tackle very hard problems in science, I now realise. You don't know what the timescale of your work will be: decades or only a few years.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Work
  • Science
  • Courage

• I've only been to jail once, and I didn't get my tattoos there.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Jail
  • Once
  • Tattoos

• All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Myself
  • Difference

• The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Best
  • Decision
  • Advice

• The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Work
  • Words
  • Day

• Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Together
  • Band
  • Find

• It was the greatest contribution towards the whole of human race, made by China, is to prevent its 1.3 billion people from hunger.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • People

• I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good.

  

  John Major
  • Good

• I hate kitchens. I don't understand these enormous American kitchens that take up half the living room and then they just order pizza.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Up
  • American
  • Hate

• I've always earned my own money and enjoy being independent. It's how I was brought up.

  

  Donna Air
  • Up
  • Money
  • Independent

• When I'm doing a store in a country, I always like to consider the concept of the country and the city.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Country
  • City

• The gross demonstration of caffeine is that it prevents you from falling asleep. The slightly more nefarious aspect of caffeine is that maybe you can fall asleep, but we know that the depth of deep sleep you're getting if caffeine is still in your system is severely less.

  

  Matthew Walker
  • Fall
  • Sleep
  • Deep

• I have hated every Kress I read, especially this one, but the Bear is a standard Bear and if you like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing you'll like.

  

  James Nicoll