Frank S. Nugent Quotes

Never apologize, mister. It's a sign of weakness.

Frank S. Nugent

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• The first thing my writing ever earned me wasn't an advance on a book; it wasn't a fee for an article or anything like that. It was, in fact, a residency at Hedgebrook Farm.

  

  Dana Stabenow
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Me

• Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God's work everywhere will be your reward.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Work
  • God
  • Nature

• TV and films are same for me. I took a decision to be an actor, and I am an actor. I never decided to be TV actor or film actor.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Decision
  • Actor
  • Films

• The market is so competitive. There are so many products that are similar. So we are forced to invest in innovative research in new products that are one or two years ahead of the market.

  

  Barry Lam
  • New
  • Research
  • Ahead

• Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Black
  • Opinion
  • Heavy-Metal

• I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it's not a personal illness.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Think
  • Personal
  • Illness

• I've never supported one penny of tuition increases.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Never
  • Penny
  • Tuition

• Listen, when somebody says, 'I take the fifth,' well, you know, they did something, OK? Why else would they take the fifth?

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Why
  • You
  • Know

• By virtue of our private property society, we have disconnected individuals from the land. We have put them in high rises and asked them to live their lives in urban settings, disconnected from the land.

  

  Adam Dell
  • Live
  • High
  • Society

• The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Band
  • Best

• Though I made my share of mistakes, as all parents do, I was devoted to my kids. I walked them to school every morning and walked back to pick them up at 3.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Up
  • School
  • Kids

• A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Time
  • Distance
  • Big

• I carry the voices of all my family within me, and they were with me there in the jungle.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Family
  • Me
  • Carry

• Sometimes, when full and in fear that I will continue to eat unwanted food just because it's staring at me, I will place my napkin over the remaining portion. This is what I frequently refer to as a 'food funeral.'

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Fear
  • Place
  • Funeral

• I read French much better than I speak.

  

  Cara Black
  • Better
  • Speak
  • Read

• It's hard work to make a four-minute program look effortless and elegant.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Work
  • Look
  • Hard Work

• In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • World
  • War
  • Government

• When he was healthy, there was nobody better than Campanella as both a catcher and a hitter. But I played with Del Crandall a long time and he was a match for anybody defensively.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Time
  • Long

• This too I know-and wise it wereIf each could know the same-That every prison that men buildIs built with bricks of shame,And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Christ
  • Prison

• Transformation as a female actor is allowed up to a certain extent - as long as they can still recognize you on a red carpet. For a woman to be a shape-shifter, and to be that malleable in spirit, is really not OK with the patriarchy.

  

  Andrea Riseborough
  • Up
  • Long
  • Red

• Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Talking
  • Little
  • Eloquence

• The chamber music repertoire is so vast that if one is genuinely curious about music, the art of listening, understanding and responding to a score, the elementary skills and requirements of chamber works are easily applicable to that of any solo playing.

  

  Wu Han
  • Understanding
  • Listening
  • Responding

• 'Star Wars,' 'Doctor Who,' 'Forgotten Realms,' even 'Firefly' and 'The X-Files' have shared world novels and other media. I can't help but notice these settings have large shelf space in bookstores, so their publishers and authors are getting something right.

  

  David Conyers
  • World
  • Help
  • Space

• Never apologize, mister. It's a sign of weakness.

  

  Frank S. Nugent