Nick Lowe (Nicholas Drain Lowe) Quotes

The idea was put to me, and my initial reaction was of slight sort of - I was slightly appalled, really, because in the U.K., we don't - we think it's all a bit vulgar, you know, doing Christmas or cashing in on Christmas. And there's a word we have for it, which is naff. And it's not exactly uncool. It really sort of means kind of vulgar and a bit - not very stylish.

Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz

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• Regardless of what the record is, what the score is, you always go out there and compete.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • You
  • Always
  • Go

• If I could meet Quentin Tarantino, I don't know if I'd just ask him one question. I'd probably milk it into, like, 500 questions.

  

  Madison Davenport
  • Know
  • Question
  • Questions

• Find a type of exercise that you love - whether it's dance, soccer, softball, anything - just as long as it keeps you active. If you love it, you'll dedicate yourself to it and stay involved.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Dance
  • Exercise
  • Active

• I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Good
  • Done
  • Better

• Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Genius
  • Infinite
  • Out

• People who are over-educated become risk-averse.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • People
  • Risk
  • Become

• The new 'Joy' was needed for a number of reasons. Recent developments in nutrition and new ingredients were two of the major reasons for the revision. One of the other big reasons was America's new love for big flavors. Yay!

  

  Irma S. Rombauer
  • Joy
  • Reasons
  • Developments

• So I consider myself a dog person. Kind of. Had dogs when I was a kid, but my parents would never have dreamed of having them in the house.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • House
  • Parents
  • Myself

• I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Like
  • Film
  • Happens

• The best leaders over the long term are those who have a sound home life.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Life
  • Long
  • Home

• I like a very sexy silhouette, and I like to feel like when you put something on, you zip yourself into it, and you're secure in there.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Feel
  • Yourself
  • Sexy

• The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Reality

• Pittsburgh was a great team. Coach Noll, Joe Greene, Jack Lambert, L.C. Greenwood and all those guys did a great job. That's the team that kept us from winning two Super Bowls. It was a great rivalry.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Great
  • Job
  • Team

• Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • People
  • Life
  • Simple

• Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Up
  • Idea
  • Bed

• Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Good
  • Education

• I don't write women who are weak or simpering.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Women
  • Write
  • Weak

• There's no wrong time to make the right decision.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Time
  • Decision
  • Right

• Knowledge and ego are directly related. the less knowledge, the greater the ego.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Knowledge
  • Ego
  • Related

• If you want to see eccentricities, I'll be grotesque before your eyes.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Eyes
  • Grotesque
  • Eccentricities

• I'd been involved with stand-up before improv, so I already thought highly of myself as being a funny person. I never thought I wasn't funny.

  

  Matt Besser
  • Up
  • Funny

• It's not easy being a father, but I've been allowed a comeback.

  

  Alan King
  • Father
  • Comeback

• But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Thinking
  • Past
  • Happiness

• The idea was put to me, and my initial reaction was of slight sort of - I was slightly appalled, really, because in the U.K., we don't - we think it's all a bit vulgar, you know, doing Christmas or cashing in on Christmas. And there's a word we have for it, which is naff. And it's not exactly uncool. It really sort of means kind of vulgar and a bit - not very stylish.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Thinking
  • Kind
  • Mean