Nicholas Sparks Quotes

What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that.

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• But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?

  

  Edgar Bergen
  • God
  • Know
  • Ever

• No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Think
  • You
  • Like

• In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • May
  • Truth
  • True

• We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Government
  • Process
  • Clear

• I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Character

• From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Dad

• I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • People
  • Great
  • Expectations

• To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Lost
  • Vote

• Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • You
  • Find
  • Look

• I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Time
  • Good
  • Writing

• A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Culture
  • Without
  • Mythology

• America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • America
  • Interesting

• The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Different
  • Way
  • Europe

• I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Children
  • Think
  • Change

• I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.

  

  Osric Chau
  • Try
  • I Can
  • Filmmaking

• While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.

  

  Quintilian
  • Up
  • Opportunity
  • Lost

• I'm about 5' 10", and my hair is the length of my whole body now. We grow our hair because of faith, but it's getting heavy. Most of the rastas I know with hair my length are elders, and they keep it tied up, but for a young person who's active and running around, the weight is a big thing. So to play sports, I put it in a backpack.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Up
  • Faith
  • Running

• The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Attention
  • Never
  • Staring

• I don't know what my Death Row meal would be. I'm surprised that people can even eat when they're on Death Row.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • People
  • Death
  • Know

• The application of group theory to physics became one of the main branches of physics that I specialized in.

  

  Chen-Ning Yang

• In 1957, at the age of 18, I entered Kyoto University, which was known to be the most active institution in the research of polymer chemistry.

  

  Ryoji Noyori
  • Research
  • Chemistry
  • University

• I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Writing
  • Mystery
  • Half

• We know longer live in a homogenous society, it is not black, white, Asian or Latin, it is a melting pot. Until we learn to assimilate and learn about other cultures, we will continue to have racism problems. Of course, there are other '-isms' as our ills. We have sexism, ageism, elitism, homophobia-ism, there are many -isms we have to overcome.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Live
  • Society
  • Black

• What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Writing
  • Change
  • Challenge