Nick Cannon (Nicholas Scott Cannon) Quotes

I am not worthy to be on a Mariah Carey record. She's a true artist, so I just step back and watch the genius occur.

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• It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Live
  • Dreams
  • Dwell

• There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Way
  • You
  • Know

• You don't pass up roles that give you the opportunity to stretch and to grow.

  

  Salli Richardson
  • Up
  • Opportunity
  • You

• I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Great
  • Never
  • Understand

• Women have a tendency not to give up realms once they take over new ones. We are still proprietary over the domestic realm even as we take over new professional realms, and that is a real problem.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Up
  • Women
  • Real

• I try to stay on a pretty normal schedule of nine-to-five.

  

  Washed Out
  • Pretty
  • Try
  • Normal

• I thought they know that I was the Commander in Chief, not that I know that I am the Commander in Chief, and they should behave; know how to behave to the Commander in Chief.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Chief
  • Behave
  • Commander

• We understand instinctively that being a prodigy wasn’t Wayne Gretzky’s platform for a lifetime’s achievement; it marked the possibility of a highly specific, highly term-limited kind of performance.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Achievement

• You know there's nothing a Hill Democrat would rather do than criticize another Democrat. It is their favorite activity. Then they can read about how honorable they are in an Op-Ed piece, how bipartisan.

  

  James Carville

• My husband loves the '90s; he's an avid '90s movie watcher, and it drives me insane. Nothing real came out of the '90s! The bad bathing suits that came up too high on women's hips came out in the '90s!

  

  Lindsey McKeon
  • Up
  • Women
  • Real

• I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work.

  

  David Mitchell
  • Work
  • Book

• Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

  

  Christopher Morley
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Bad

• There is a widespread assumption that simply because my generation of women has the good fortune to live in a world touched by the feminist movement, that means everything we do is magically imbued with its agenda, but it doesn't work that way.

  

  Ariel Levy
  • World
  • Good
  • Work

• Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.

  

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • Joy
  • Gratitude

• My dad made a film called 'Willow' when he was a young filmmaker, which screened at the Cannes film festival, and people were booing afterwards.

  

  Bryce Dallas Howard
  • People
  • Dad

• I think it was when I realised I could talk anybody into doing just about anything I wanted them to.

  

  Jeremy London

• I've got no business giving advice to anyone. Even a fictional character.

  

  Lisa Lutz
  • Business
  • Character
  • Giving

• There's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Qur'an, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bible, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bhaghavad Gita, or of the Book of Mormon, or of the other sacred texts of many of those religions.

  

  Neale Donald Walsch
  • Book
  • Bible

• Where do they come from, these things that say more than we know and more than we intend?

  

  Elizabeth Hay
  • Know
  • Intend

• We sound like the Bay City Rollers after an assault by Black Sabbath. And, we vomit onstage better than anyone.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Black
  • City

• The whole nuclear thing is a terrible mess and it's hard for me to understand why it is that we, the United States, seem to be the only ones that are really particularly concerned about it and prepared to do something.

  

  Lawrence Eagleburger
  • Why

• Most of what we say about ourselves is a wonderful piece of storytelling.

  

  Simon McBurney
  • Say
  • Storytelling
  • Piece

• The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things, she decided, wondering how many writers and philosophers had said this before her, the trivial pleasures like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.

  

  Barbara Pym
  • Life
  • Great
  • Home

• I am not worthy to be on a Mariah Carey record. She's a true artist, so I just step back and watch the genius occur.

  

  Nick Cannon