Nicholas Haslam (Nicholas Ponsonby Haslam) Quotes

I have a thirst - it's an awful word, but I'm thirsty for knowledge. I like knowing things, the odder the better, the more obtuse the better.

Nicholas Haslam

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• One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Science
  • Said

• I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.

  

  Aaron Yoo
  • Life
  • Live
  • Kind

• Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

  

  Ted Engstrom
  • Time
  • Best
  • Effort

• The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Different
  • Success
  • Man

• The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Time
  • You
  • Greatest

• Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Suffering
  • Principle

• Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

  

  Nadia Boulanger
  • Love
  • Giving
  • Best

• Every man over 40 should have a PSA test each year.

  

  Barry Bostwick
  • Man
  • Year
  • Over

• I am glad that he thanks God for anything.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • God
  • Thanks

• The boy is special, Aunt Annie told his mother, and his mother in turn told him. But what kind of special? No one ever says.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Mother
  • Boy
  • Aunt

• Chaos, rudis indigestaque moles.

  

  Ovid
  • Chaos

• 'I want to know how many years I got.''Many,' said Ta-Kumsaw. 'Or few. All that matters is what you do with however many years you have.'

  

  Orson Scott Card

• The only good time to say I have diarrhea is during a game of Scrabble, because it's worth a shitload of points.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Game

• Pushing people forward simply because of their colour, irrespective of merit, would be most unfortunate and would of course lead to disaster. It would mean that Rhodesia would then develop into a kind of banana republic where the country would in no time be bankrupt.

  

  Ian Smith
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• The kind of job doesn't matter. The length of time on the job doesn't matter... If you work hard and do your best, you'll be recognized and move onward.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Job

• The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Mind
  • Powerful
  • Solitude

• I can't cut out a piece of cloth and make a lovely dress, but I can mend tears in shirts and sew on buttons.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Tears

• And under Obamacare, insurance companies can no longer discriminate against women. Before, some wouldn't cover women's most basic needs, like contraception and maternity care, but would still charge us up to 50 percent more than men - for a worse plan.

  

  Kathleen Sebelius
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• Jews have not only become equal citizens in Western democracies, they have become leading citizens. And, of course, the reestablishment of the State of Israel has given Jews a political presence in the world they have not had since biblical times.

  

  David Novak
  • World
  • Political

• From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Great
  • Love
  • Success

• There is such a thing as society. It's just not the same thing as the state.

  

  David Cameron
  • Society

• Surely women's liberation is a most unpromising panacea. But the movement is working politically, because our sexuality is so confused, our masculinity so uncertain, and our families so beleaguered that no one knows what they are for or how they are sustained.

  

  George Gilder
  • Women
  • Confused
  • Sexuality

• I have a thirst - it's an awful word, but I'm thirsty for knowledge. I like knowing things, the odder the better, the more obtuse the better.

  

  Nicholas Haslam
  • Knowledge
  • Knowing
  • Thirst