Nicholas Sparks Quotes

In the end, everything came down to money. It came down to what a person actually did, as opposed to who they thought they were.

Nicholas Sparks

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• Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Up
  • May
  • Character

• I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.

  

  Carla Bley
  • World
  • Best
  • End

• I tried to play rugby but was never very good.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Good
  • Never
  • Rugby

• Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Man
  • Years
  • Errors

• Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • You
  • Know

• I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.

  

  Raekwon
  • Up
  • Never
  • Jump

• Politics is the womb in which war develops.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Politics
  • Womb

• The first band I was ever in, I played guitar. We did Gary Glitter and Green Day covers at the time. We were called Fizz. I have no idea why we picked that. We were, like, 12 years old.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Time
  • Why
  • Day

• Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Lost
  • Problem
  • Crazy

• 'Girl, Interrupted' is one of my favorite movies.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Girl
  • Movies
  • Favorite

• I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.

  

  Adam Pascal
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Actor

• Everything I say is true.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • True
  • Everything
  • Say

• I don't think anybody wants to see a dour 'Star Trek' movie.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Star

• It was necessary to have an even depth of corn on the top compared to the sides, so the air would not take the easiest route and not evenly dry the stored corn.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Air
  • Take
  • Sides

• The fact that I have to set things to record seems idiotic. And channel guides - I get home, and I want to watch a Duke basketball game; why do I have to go hunting to find out what channel it's on? Why can't I just say, 'I want to watch Duke basketball.' Or, even better, why doesn't the system know that?

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Why
  • Home
  • Game

• To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Peace
  • Build
  • Core

• Reader, you may ask this question; in fact, you must ask this question: Is it ridiculous for a very small, sickly, big-eared mouse to fall in love with a beautiful human princess named Pea? The answer is... yes. Of course, it's ridiculous. Love is ridiculous.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • May
  • Beautiful
  • Small

• Comme tous les gens qui ne sont pas amoureux, il s'imaginait qu'on choisit la personne qu'on aime après mille délibérations et d'après des qualités et convenances diverses.

  

  Marcel Proust

• Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.

  

  Aphra Behn
  • Patience

• We're told that when we remember, the same parts of our brain light up as when we experienced the event we're remembering. Your brain lives through it again.

  

  Phil Klay
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Light

• You know, there are people making a lot of money in this country who can actually afford their own health care. We are in a situation where we got a safety net in place in this country for people who frankly don't need one. We got to focus on making sure we got a safety net for those who actually need it.

  

  Eric Cantor
  • People
  • Country
  • Money

• If you want people to know what your message is, just sing it.

  

  Kenny Rogers
  • People

• I learned, practically in my cradle (actually from Bill McMillan's thesis), that the ground state wave function of a system of bosons should necessarily be real and positive, a fact which made his early Monte Carlo simulations infinitely easier.

  

  Philip Warren Anderson
  • Real
  • Positive

• In the end, everything came down to money. It came down to what a person actually did, as opposed to who they thought they were.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Money
  • Person