Nick Bantock Quotes

I do what I want to do. I see where my enthusiasm is. Over the years, my techniques expanded. That's how the writing came out.

Nick Bantock

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• Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.

  

  Owen Arthur
  • Good
  • Great
  • Service

• The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Heart
  • War
  • Argument

• Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?

  

  Foster Friess
  • Want
  • Doctors
  • Washington

• Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Always
  • Everything
  • Barber

• There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.

  

  Sam Tsui
  • Way
  • Radio
  • Promotion

• Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Years
  • Youth
  • United Nations

• I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Needs
  • Values

• I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Blues

• I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Try
  • Go

• 'House of Cards' opened some doors. I've been able to tackle some diverse stories and characters.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • House
  • Doors
  • Cards

• And it's a lot harder to hide with four musicians than it is with eight.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Musicians
  • Harder
  • Hide

• When I'm deciding to read a book, I never open to the first chapter, because that's been revised and worked over 88 times. I'll just turn to the middle of the book, to the middle of a chapter, and just read a random page and I'll know right away whether this is the real deal or not.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Real
  • Book
  • Random

• Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Society
  • Perfect
  • Surprise

• Beijing cannot sit by and let her North Korean ally be bombed, nor can it allow U.S. and South Korean forces to defeat the North, bring down the regime, and unite the peninsula, with U.S. and South Korean soldiers sitting on the Yalu, as they did in 1950 before Mao ordered his Chinese army into Korea.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Army
  • Chinese
  • Defeat

• A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Great
  • Change
  • Attitude

• I heard your suitcase say goodbye

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Goodbye

• I was always more of a Lydia Deeds than a Disney Princess, so anything offbeat like that, I would love to be a part of.

  

  Ashleigh Murray
  • Disney
  • Princess

• An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Future

• Creative Writing was not a form of psychotherapy, in ways both sublime and ridiculuous, it clearly was, precisely that.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Writing
  • Creative
  • Sublime

• There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer's time isn't worth the paper he is not writing anything on.

  

  E. B. White
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Moments

• A PhD in Mathematics is three years of guessing it wrong, plus one week of getting it right and writing a dissertation.

  

  Keith Devlin
  • Writing
  • Three
  • Mathematics

• I think American audiences are quite interesting in that they can handle almost any amount of violence, but the moment the violence becomes sexual violence it immediately becomes an issue.

  

  Mark Millar
  • American
  • Interesting
  • Violence

• During my time at high school and university in Kreuzlingen and St. Gallen, I traveled around Europe looking at art, visiting artists, studios, galleries and museums.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Time
  • School
  • Art

• I do what I want to do. I see where my enthusiasm is. Over the years, my techniques expanded. That's how the writing came out.

  

  Nick Bantock
  • Writing
  • Enthusiasm
  • Technique