Nick Bantock Quotes

in the caves of my heart, where pain taps out its rhythms and sorrow sets its loss, i am without direction.

Nick Bantock

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• At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.

  

  Dan Hill
  • School
  • Heart
  • Man

• When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • People
  • Sex
  • Better

• Never in a million years would I think I'd play in a Super Bowl.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Think
  • Play
  • Years

• This is the voice of Vietnam Broadcasting from Hanoi, capitol of the Democratic republic of Vietnam.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • Voice
  • Vietnam
  • Capitol

• My work is through my emotions, so everything kind of goes together.

  

  Maiwenn
  • Work
  • Together
  • Emotions

• Those who have the power and should be the most responsible are often the least responsible.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Power
  • Should
  • Responsible

• We were doing the dance routine and I dislocated my knee. I've been doing stunts for a long time and it's kind of weird that I'd dislocate my knee just dancing.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Time
  • Long
  • Dance

• I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Think
  • Way
  • President

• 'It is no hardship whatever,' said Aillas. 'You have never strained at the deed. Now the shoe is on the other foot, and suddenly you find the idea incredible. Do you not sense a taint of unreality?'

  

  Jack Vance

• Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Wisdom

• So this is my effort to bring back the hope that we must have if we are to change direction. . . . I think to be fully human, we need to have meaning in our lives, and that's what I am trying to help these young people to find.

  

  Jane Goodall
  • People
  • Trying
  • Help

• Las certidumbres sólo se alcanzan con los pies.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• My animals are a really important part of my life.

  

  Lisa Scottoline
  • Life
  • Important

• Nothing was a style first. Everything started as an idea. A guy did something with an idea. Someone copied him. Some copied all of them and it became trendy and then it became a style.

  

  Bill Laswell
  • Guy
  • Style

• Prime Minister Maliki, released from American restraint, acted on his worst instincts, creating enormous distrust in Iraq's Kurdish population and deeply embittering Sunnis in western Iraq's Al Anbar, who lost any confidence in a Baghdad government they saw as adversarial.

  

  James Mattis
  • American
  • Lost
  • Confidence

• I feel like things are weirder in our food production chain than I can even make up. I wouldn't invent pink slime, but pink slime exists: It's a non-fictional entity. Like, that stuff grosses me out so much, I couldn't make it up.

  

  Alexandra Kleeman
  • Up
  • Food
  • Pink

• I'm the type of person who would rather stay home than get my picture taken.

  

  Ashley Olsen
  • Home
  • Taken
  • Picture

• Authors all have at least one thing in common, which is that when we finally get finished copies of our books, we get giddy as kindergartners. We touch them constantly, and build towers with them, and take pictures of our cats and dogs reading them.

  

  Jeff Giles
  • Reading

• There is no free speech in football. Information is parsed by monosyllabic head coaches, who dictate who gets to speak to whom and when.

  

  Jane Leavy
  • Free
  • Football

• I am definitely a Tim Burton fan. I had seen 'Edward Scissorhands' enough times to know it by heart. That's exciting: to work on something you feel like you really get.

  

  Kate Leth
  • Work
  • Heart

• Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat... Never take yourself too seriously.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Life
  • Help
  • Pain

• Steeping my life in beauty brings color to my days and a song to my heart

  

  Thomas Kinkade
  • Heart
  • Song
  • Color

• Until now, until I actually got into law class, I just never thought of it as being an interest for me, but it's really funny because now that I'm in law, I'm like 'Wow, I could be a lawyer.

  

  Lisa Leslie
  • Law
  • Funny
  • Lawyer

• in the caves of my heart, where pain taps out its rhythms and sorrow sets its loss, i am without direction.

  

  Nick Bantock
  • Heart
  • Pain
  • Sorrow