Nick Flynn Quotes

If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.

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• If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • People
  • Just
  • Tragedy

• In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Business
  • You
  • Investment

• Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.

  

  Patricia Meyer Spacks
  • Gossip
  • Bears
  • Flavor

• As a kid at school, I had a lot of really good teachers and I had a lot of really bad teachers, and I just know how much of an impact those can have on a young child. To be one of the good teachers - I want to have that kind of impact.

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Good
  • School
  • Bad

• The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Why
  • Business
  • Moral

• Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Information
  • Flow
  • Charge

• The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Feeling
  • Water
  • Start

• When my car broke down in L.A., nobody stopped. They just kept whizzing by.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Car
  • Down
  • Nobody

• Sometimes if something is entertaining and amusing, people tend to think that it doesn't have the depth of something that's dramatic. I don't think that's true.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • People
  • True
  • Sometimes

• There's parts of it that I connect to - being a father and everything - but 'Mamma Mia!' allows me to go out there and be me and have fun. I've never really had the chance to do that with so much freedom.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Fun
  • Father
  • Freedom

• I feel even old people can do a nice love story, but here we don't make that kind of films. In the West, such films are being made and they make a nice romance, which is more like compassion.

  

  Om Puri
  • People
  • Love
  • Nice

• I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Life
  • Live
  • Rest

• As a young man in South Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century, Gandhi developed satyagraha, a mode of political activism based upon moral persuasion, while mobilizing South Africa's small Indian minority against racial discrimination.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Man
  • Political
  • Small

• I want my little girl to tell me who she is so I can encourage her and not impose my desires for her on her life. I want her to dream big and to know that if she is willing to earn it, she can have anything - and become anything.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • She
  • Dream

• Of course, everyone would like to play a superhero, but this is by no means me saying I would like to go play Cyclops.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Play
  • Saying
  • Means

• I don't know how long I would've stayed, to be honest.

  

  Larry Page
  • Long

• I have been told that Your Excellency follows the teachings of Jesus (PBUH)

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Jesus

• We manipulate fabric.

  

  Anna Sui

• 'The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...'

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • World
  • Today

• I watch 'Entourage.' I aspire the good life that they live and lead. Honestly, I am just trying to be me by trying to do good films, have fun at it and trying to work with good directors, and, of course, I am a bit of a silent party boy, also. I have my share of fun sometime, too.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall.

  

  Boris Johnson
  • Trying
  • Wall

• Most of my ideas come from drawing patterns across conversations I have with different types of people - technology investors, young fashion design students, a CEO. This variety is stimulating and offers many different perspectives on the things I am thinking about.

  

  Imran Amed
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• I turned from my wicked ways and embraced Jesus. The next thing I knew, good times had come my way.

  

  Phil Robertson
  • Good
  • Jesus

• If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.

  

  Nick Flynn
  • Life
  • Respect
  • Write