Jim Nussle Quotes

I am pleased with the direction we are moving in.

Jim Nussle

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• We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Hands
  • Our
  • Asleep

• A new untruth is better than an old truth.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Truth
  • Better
  • Truth Is

• Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • People
  • Work
  • Myself

• It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Art
  • Movement
  • Museum

• The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Important
  • Write
  • Most

• The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • World
  • Good
  • Bad

• Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happiness
  • Knowing
  • Grateful

• The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary statement - it was designed by people skeptical of government, local or national, but in particular national.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • People
  • Government
  • Lies

• My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Music
  • Dad
  • Kind

• Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Character
  • Underneath

• If you don't vote, you don't count.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • You
  • Vote
  • Count

• A secret is a secret in my mind.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Mind
  • Secret

• To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Love
  • Marriage
  • Right

• The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Me
  • Woman
  • Interest

• I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Life
  • America
  • Architecture

• Keep in mind, you can use Auto-Tune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to know how to write a good song.

  

  T-Pain
  • Good
  • Work
  • Mind

• I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Never
  • Show
  • Anything

• There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an unfulfilled painter.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Work
  • Art
  • Think

• Never take ecstasy, beer, baccardi, weed, pepto bismol, vivarin, tums, tagamet hb, xanax, and valium in the same day. It makes it difficult to sleep at night.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Night
  • Sleep
  • Difficult

• I desire to have a dialogue that's positive, and communicative and moves forward, and is about something real, not just consumption.

  

  Mike Vallely Black Flag
  • Real
  • Desire
  • Moving

• Oh, Zoe Kazan - I'd move back to Brooklyn for her. She makes me happy with my life. Knowing her, being at her dinner table, going on a walk with her is the best of all possible worlds.

  

  Michelle Williams Destiny's Child
  • World
  • Moving
  • Dinner

• We have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed.

  

  James Newman
  • Independent

• My problem was that I felt ashamed of feeling sad or angry. Now, I don't hide my vulnerability in my lyrics. There's no way I was going to get raped and not get something out of it. I learned about power and hope and forgiveness. I like who I am now and I wouldn't be who I am if that hadn't happened.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Power
  • Hope
  • Feeling

• I am pleased with the direction we are moving in.

  

  Jim Nussle
  • Moving