Nicholas Sparks Quotes

First you will smile, and then you will cry -- don't say you haven't been warned.

Nicholas Sparks

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• A teacher should have a creative mind.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Mind
  • Teacher
  • Creative

• If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Life
  • Rock

• Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Ants

• Positivity is like a muscle: keep exercising it, and it becomes a habit.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Like
  • Habit
  • Muscle

• Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Like
  • Point
  • Joke

• Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Nature
  • Thought
  • Expression

• That's the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Want
  • I Can

• Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Society
  • Fear
  • Change

• Capitalism is the only system where such men are free to function and where progress is accompanied, not by forced privations, but by a constant rise in the general level of prosperity, of consumption and of enjoyment of life.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Life
  • Men
  • Free

• I have long believed that it is only right and appropriate that before one sleeps with someone, one should be able – if called upon to do so – to make them a proper omelet in the morning. Surely that kind of civility and selflessness would be both good manners and good for the world.

  

  Anthony Bourdain
  • World
  • Good
  • Long

• Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.

  

  Lord Byron

• Dennis surfed. I couldn't surf. I never learned how.

  

  Brian Wilson

• The problem with every story is you tell it after the fact. Every play-by-play description on the radio, the home runs and strikeouts, even that's delayed a few minutes. Even live television is postponed a couple seconds. Even Sound and light can only go so fast.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • Live
  • Home
  • Light

• Existence is illusory and it is eternal.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Existence
  • Eternal
  • Illusory

• Sei giorni me n'andai matina e seraPer balze e per pendici orride e strane,Dove non via, dove sentier non era.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• Even if we are dead we help each other in some little way.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • Help

• Watched Star Wars in 77 and that's when I got into watching films. I was just blown away by it.

  

  Debra Wilson
  • Star

• 'Halal in the Family' will expose a broad audience to some of the realities of being Muslim in America. By using satire, we will encourage people to reconsider their assumptions about Muslims, while providing a balm to those experiencing anti-Muslim bias. I also hope those Uncles and Aunties out there will crack a smile!

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Family
  • America

• Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye.

  

  Douglas Horton
  • Smile

• It never occurred to him that now he was looking at his master, at the one person in all the world who held his fate right between her palms - me, in patched hand-me-downs and untrimmed hair and idiot smile - and that my hatred for him is pure and black and unforgiving. And that I don't believe in God, but if I did, if I did, it would be the God of Moses, angry and demanding and OUT FOR REVENGE.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Smile
  • Fate
  • Revenge

• The part that I loved about radio wasn't getting on the air - it was all this great stuff my listeners would tell me.

  

  Paloma Ayana Stoecker
  • Great
  • Air

• First you will smile, and then you will cry -- don't say you haven't been warned.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Smile
  • Cry
  • Warned