Nick Petrie Quotes

It's interesting what pops out of an author's subconscious when he's not thinking about it.

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• I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Should
  • Fiction
  • African

• You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Father
  • You
  • Perfect

• Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Calm
  • Events
  • Quiet

• In my opinion, faith helps in many contexts.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Faith
  • Opinion
  • Many

• Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. And yet where do we not see change?

  

  Frances Wright
  • World
  • Change
  • Speak

• In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Support
  • Play
  • Listening

• I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in the moment. Just like the gifted musicians in my dad's quartet, it takes a courageous actor to be free.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Good
  • Music
  • Live

• Historians will look back in stupor at 20th and 21st century Americans who believed the magnificent republic they inherited would be enriched by bringing in scores of millions from the failed states of the Third World.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World

• Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Science
  • Laws
  • Means

• I love Rihanna's style. It's a good mix of streetwear and show wear, and I love her music, too. She's an incredible singer and performer.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Good
  • Music
  • She

• To make music that means something, you kind of have to drop the cool. You have to be prepared and willing to be uncool.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Music
  • Cool

• It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.

  

  Pliny the Elder
  • Good

• I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.

  

  James Broughton
  • Art
  • Passion

• And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

  

  Jesus Christ
  • Work
  • Beginning

• I like to read dramatic novels and I absolutely love magazines.

  

  Maud Welzen

• I'm so totally future oriented that, for me, I don't know what the future's about, but I can promise you it's gonna be exciting.

  

  Kenny Rogers
  • Future
  • Promise

• I listen to every type of music there is, and I also have a little girl, so I listen to ultra-fun Disney stars' music as well.

  

  Jamie Lynn Spears
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Girl

• The Animals were a very separate and dissonant group at the time. We came from different backgrounds, different areas - we didn't even come from the same town, basically.

  

  Alan Price
  • Time
  • Different

• I don't really like jokes in a way. I mean gags are fine but I like weird moments where what you have isn't really a joke, just tiny moments.

  

  Noel Fielding
  • Moments
  • Jokes

• Before I dismiss this affair of eating and drinking, let me beseech you to resolve to free yourselves from the slavery of the tea and coffee and other slop-kettle, if, unhappily, you have been bred up in such slavery.

  

  William Cobbett
  • Coffee
  • Slavery
  • Tea

• No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • Thinking
  • Happy
  • Future

• The Bible is big in my teaching. It's a wonder the ACLU didn't get after me pretty good. I really kept thinking they would. I took my boys to church. I took my football team to church. I only did it two times a year. Before I signed a kid, I'd write the parents and I'd tell that parent we were gong to take your son to church twice.

  

  Bobby Bowden
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Pretty

• It's interesting what pops out of an author's subconscious when he's not thinking about it.

  

  Nick Petrie
  • Thinking
  • Author
  • Subconscious