Nick Cannon (Nicholas Scott Cannon) Quotes

People have always said I have an old soul, and all my best friends are 10 to 15 years my senior.

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• Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Poetry

• I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Remember

• I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Beginning
  • Write
  • Down

• All of us, the government, parliament, local authorities and the society must demonstrate determination and readiness to use knowledge and capabilities... toward full European integration.

  

  Igor Luksic
  • Society
  • Knowledge
  • Determination

• I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Style
  • Pushing
  • Original

• Failure is a part of success.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Part

• I don't enjoy being a celebrity, I don't want any part of that or any part of that fame for fame... i'd actually rather die than be a celebrity slime!!!

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Want
  • Die
  • Enjoy

• There are a few elements - especially platinum and palladium - that have the amazing ability to absorb up to 900 times their own volume in hydrogen gas. To get a sense of the scale there, that's roughly equivalent to a 250-pound man swallowing something the size of a dozen African bull elephants and not gaining an inch on his waistline.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Up
  • Man
  • Amazing

• As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Childhood
  • Human
  • Generation

• As a child, we visited the San Juan Islands during the summer. Kayaking, big family meals, playing on the beach - great memories!

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • Great
  • Family
  • Memories

• Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • Live
  • Water

• A circuit performed by a capital and meant to be a periodical process, not an individual act, is called its turnover. The duration of this turnover is determined by the sum of its time of production and its time of circulation.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Time

• A crowd of ordinary decent folk Watched from without and neither moved nor spoke As three pale figures were led forth and bound To three posts driven upright in the ground.

  

  W. H. Auden

• Cuando creo que la piedra es piedra, que la nube es nube, me hallo es un estado de inconsciencia.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

  

  David Hume

• Whether it's Facebook or Google or the other companies, that basic principle that users should be able to see and control information about them that they themselves have revealed to the companies is not baked into how the companies work. But it's bigger than privacy. Privacy is about what you're willing to reveal about yourself.

  

  Eli Pariser
  • Work
  • Control

• I'm just a working actor.

  

  Clive Owen

• I believe in working with your morning brain - you have your coffee, and then maybe you'll start thinking about the grand plan and what's going to happen in the next arc, and then you write for a while, and then you get really dreamy, and over the course of the day or in the middle of the night, something comes, and you just throw it in!

  

  Ann Nocenti
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Night

• Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Society
  • Interest
  • Greatest

• Still let my tyrants know, I am not doomed to wear Year after year in gloom, and desolate despair; A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Hope
  • Liberty
  • Tyrants

• Another friend, a child psychologist from the college, once commented that Rachel at age five showed the most reliable indicators of true giftedness in a young person: structured curiosity, empathy for others, compassion, and a fierce sense of fair play.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • True
  • Age
  • College

• You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.

  

  Franz Grillparzer
  • Friend
  • Stupid

• Look at nature with science as a lens. The rock swarms, the clod dances; the mineral is but the vegetable stepping down, and the animal an ascending plant; the man, a beast extended; and the angel, a developed human soul.

  

  Cyrus Augustus Bartol
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Science

• People have always said I have an old soul, and all my best friends are 10 to 15 years my senior.

  

  Nick Cannon
  • Soul
  • Friend
  • Senior