Nick Lowe (Nicholas Drain Lowe) Quotes

What's so funny about peace, love, and understanding?

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• I went to Floridita on Wardour Street when I was 18. All I could afford was pumpkin soup and a glass of champagne, but it was worth it.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Street
  • Champagne
  • Soup

• 'First Family' on the CW is about the president and his family living in the White House.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Family
  • House
  • First

• Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Game

• I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • She
  • Age
  • Strong

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Work
  • Great
  • Experience

• One can not impede scientific progress.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Science
  • Progress

• Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Time
  • Music
  • Night

• China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Character
  • Think
  • You

• I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Always

• California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Business
  • Water
  • California

• You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Believe
  • Truth

• My parents had some problems of their own that put me in a position of having to deal with very grown-up stuff at a very young age. I needed some help with that, therapy-wise.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Up
  • Help
  • Age

• I was in Congress for six months, and they put me on blood pressure medication. I flew helicopters in combat and I was fine, and I survived 13 months in recovery in the hospital... I got to Congress, and six months later I'm on blood pressure medication. Fourteen months later, they doubled the dosage!

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Me
  • Blood
  • Pressure

• Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fear they won't be loved.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • Women
  • Power
  • Fear

• I like to talk about food, ingredients, and how to adapt recipes. It's a dialogue.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Food
  • Dialogue
  • Adapt

• One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Music
  • Art
  • Band

• The more rewarding part of doing a solo record for me was having more control in the studio.

  

  Darren Hayes Savage Garden
  • Control
  • Studio
  • Rewarding

• The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women.

  

  Emily Carr
  • Men
  • Women
  • Stop

• My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That's what my parents called me. I also got 'Teddy Ruxpin' a lot. It just got to a point where I got sick of it, so when a teacher called out 'James Franco' my junior year of high school, I didn't correct her.

  

  James Franco
  • School
  • High
  • Parents

• You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.

  

  George Armstrong Custer
  • Country
  • War
  • Peace

• Joy is a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Peace
  • Joy
  • Connection

• What's so funny about peace, love, and understanding?

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Peace
  • Understanding