Nick Flynn Quotes

I get inspired by my friends, and if a friend is a writer, that is even deeper.

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• I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • People
  • Life
  • Blessed

• Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 and 2010, is often cited as the most dramatic use of a cyber weapon.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Most
  • Often
  • Cyber

• A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.

  

  F. L. Lucas
  • May
  • Man
  • Tomorrow

• My mother was a Bohemian - in the good sense of the word. A searcher. And she investigated various religions.

  

  Madeline Kahn
  • Good
  • She
  • Mother

• The more I grow, and the older I get, the more I am enjoying my life and know how precious it really is.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Life
  • Grow
  • Older

• I believe in that gladiatorial mind-set. I love it.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • I Believe

• Latin men love Latin women, it is part of the culture, we celebrate women in a very special way and I think that is present in my work. I do it by making them beautiful, sensual.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• I think sometimes people can get lost in the bigger special effects, science fiction, robot stuff, and those are cool and fun to watch, too, but I think it's so important to sometimes step back and watch something that's about life and human interaction.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Purpose
  • Mountain
  • Grow

• It's an honor to be awarded the Liberty Medal.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Honor
  • Liberty
  • Awarded

• You resent death. You regret death. But as for your own life, you know perfectly well that no one can threaten it at all. Death is something that happens to someone else.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • Death
  • Regret

• There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Power

• Insurance companies can no longer refuse to cover Americans with pre-existing conditions. That's what change looks like.

  

  Kathleen Sebelius
  • Insurance

• I try to avoid a specific image. I seek to play as many different women as I can to avoid having a label put on me.

  

  Blythe Danner
  • Different
  • Women

• I was invited to play with the New York Knicks. I was never drafted, but I was invited to the rookie camp.

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.

• As long as you try your best, that is all that matters. You don't have to be the fastest runner or top of the class.

  

  Penny Lancaster
  • Long

• Monti is a person who is an expert on both the political and professional level.

  

  Mark Rutte
  • Political
  • Professional

• I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • School
  • Parents
  • Law

• Great advertising triggers an emotion in you. It has purpose. It touches a nerve, and that provokes a reaction.

  

  David Droga
  • Great
  • Purpose

• Marvel heroes, at their core, are people who are damaged, are people that are trying to figure out who they are in life. And that doesn't matter whether or not they're X-Men characters or they're Matt Murdock or they're Tony Stark or they're Peter Parker... That's where it starts.

  

  Jeph Loeb
  • People
  • Life
  • Men

• For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack's Car, but that didn't last.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Band

• While I don't feel like I'm an evangelist, country music is about to give me a platform, and so keeping it topically acceptable for everybody, I hope that sets some sort of example.

  

  Brett Young
  • Music
  • Country
  • Hope

• I get inspired by my friends, and if a friend is a writer, that is even deeper.

  

  Nick Flynn
  • Friends
  • Inspired
  • Deeper