Nicholas Sparks Quotes

We’d met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world.

Nicholas Sparks

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• There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Up
  • Parent
  • Coffee

• For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Culture

• I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • World
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• I'm always the interrogator. When I was an actor in rep, I always played sinister parts. The directors always said, 'If there's a nasty man about, cast Harold Pinter.'

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Man
  • Always
  • Said

• I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Chemistry
  • Almost
  • Algebra

• If I made a mistake on a piece of content, I'm going to learn from it.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Mistake
  • Learn
  • Content

• As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Society
  • Change

• I've been a jealous person myself. I've been distrustful, convinced that somebody's having an affair with somebody else. If you believe it in your head, everything looks like a lie. When you're looking for it, you always see it - even the change of expression in their face.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Believe
  • Change
  • Myself

• If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Like
  • Write
  • Skills

• I'm playing a very strong character, it's the story of the woman Polish Jews out of the Warsaw ghetto. I've just begun my weapons training and the SAS type training that's getting me fit.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Character
  • Strong
  • Training

• I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Live
  • Try
  • Islam

• All the parts I get offered are character and comedy parts, and I probably wouldn't get them if I had a different face. So I'm glad I have a comedy face.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • Different
  • Character
  • Comedy

• We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • World
  • Picture
  • Belief

• Ever since I was little, I've always liked to smash things.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • Always
  • Little
  • Ever

• It's a terrible poison, writing.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Writing
  • Terrible
  • Poison

• It is to do nothing that the elect exist. Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Dreams
  • Exist
  • Loneliness

• At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • American
  • Space
  • Picture

• Debajo de tu piel vive la luna.

  

  Pablo Neruda

• Back in 1978, when I was still in high school, I went to see a Broadway show, 'Paul Robeson,' starring James Earl Jones. It was all about Robeson's journey as a human being, an artist, a champion of civil rights. Had I not seen the play, I might not have known who Robeson was. I was certainly never taught about him in school.

  

  Laurence Fishburne
  • School
  • High
  • Journey

• Roman history was kind of unavoidable where I was growing up. It was everywhere - all the place names and ruins and forts. My dad's a history buff, and I spent a lot of time on Hadrian's Wall. I became fascinated by the idea of what was so terrifying up there that the Romans built a 60-mile long, 30ft high stone wall to keep it out?

  

  Neil Marshall
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• What little family I got is in Mississippi. A whole lot of them died before I left, and my sister died a long time ago, before my mama did.

  

  Pinetop Perkins
  • Time
  • Long
  • Family

• I think about my films for a long time, maybe years, but I write them in days.

  

  Anurag Kashyap
  • Time
  • Long

• I spent the first 18 years of my career at AT&T, and it was a wonderful place that kept me moving all the time. I mean, I started off as entry level a position as you can get at AT&T.

  

  Dan Schulman
  • Time
  • Career
  • Moving

• We’d met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Time
  • Promise
  • Lessons