Nicholas Haslam (Nicholas Ponsonby Haslam) Quotes

It's the fashion, I tell you: big, tall women going out with tiny, tiny men.

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• The American people likewise want to see enforcement first, no tricks, no triggers, no amnesty, enforcing existing laws and closing loopholes to reaffirm that our great Republic is, in fact, a nation of laws.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • People
  • Great
  • American

• One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Important
  • Done
  • Service

• And in fact I don't believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. That's why I love it so much.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Why

• 'Years of Living Dangerously' is a wonderful opportunity to reach a lot of people with the story and importance of climate change in our lives; in recent history, there's no bigger threat to the quality of human life than what is taking place right now in respect of climate change.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Life
  • History

• Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Man
  • Justice
  • Violence

• Tackling still comes down to leverage and owning that leverage and making your hits.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Down
  • Owning
  • Leverage

• Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.

  

  Sampha
  • Music
  • Sometimes
  • Wonder

• You can't work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every night, the sky looked enormous. It was a torrent of flames - of fire. The place that Pittsburgh used to be had such scale.

  

  Jack Gilbert
  • Work
  • High
  • Night

• I increasingly see organized religion as actually my enemy. They treat me as their enemy. Not all Christians, of course. Not all Jews, not all Muslims.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Religion
  • Christians
  • Jews

• Everything I have in life comes from Knots Landing.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Life
  • Everything
  • Landing

• September eleven was not a simple operation. Could it be planned and executed without coordination with intelligence and security services—or their extensive infiltration?

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Simple
  • September

• Venture capitalists are professional money managers. We are provided capital to invest as long as we can return it to our investors with a strong return in a reasonable amount of time. A strong return is three times cash on cash. A reasonable amount of time is ten years max.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • Family
  • College
  • Uncle

• God moves in mysterious ways. All gods do. It's the only way they can work.

  

  Brian Stableford
  • Work
  • God
  • Mysterious

• I listen to a lot of different styles of music. So it doesn't have to be just one thing. I prefer it. If it's not, I get bored very easily.

  

  Jann Klose
  • Music
  • Different
  • Bored

• Just a whole different style, just a whole different way of going about an audience and a way about skating. And they are so brilliant in their own way, which is great, and that's what Brian was saying; is the styles are different, and it's the whole mentality.

  

  Elvis Stojko
  • Great
  • Different
  • Style

• Most science fiction is about white men who are 25 to 30, who are very smart, who face a physical problem and solve it.

  

  Joe Haldeman
  • Men
  • Science
  • Smart

• I don't think I've ever seen a person having a serious conversation on a cellphone. It's like a kiddie thing, a complete time waster.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Time
  • Serious

• Gucci has great potential worldwide. Since it's inception in 1921, the brand has had a big visibility and many followers.

  

  Marco Bizzarri
  • Great

• For a long time, the Court has moved toward outlawing all forms of racial preference, including affirmative action, and Obama seems accepting, even supportive, of the change.

  

  Jeffrey Toobin
  • Time
  • Long
  • Action

• Listen to great storytellers; slowly, you will learn about voice, timing, tension, structure, climax - all the things you need to tell stories that will capture the imagination of your audience.

  

  Carmen Agra Deedy
  • Great
  • Imagination

• I think the whole concept that women aren't funny is dead. It's over; it's done.

  

  Kate Flannery
  • Women
  • Done
  • Think

• Yes, guns are to men what jewelry is to women!

  

  Steve King
  • Men
  • Women
  • Gun

• It's the fashion, I tell you: big, tall women going out with tiny, tiny men.

  

  Nicholas Haslam
  • Women
  • Fashion
  • Tall