Nick Swardson (Nicholas Roger Swardson) Quotes

Babies are like the smallest, drunkest people you know.

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• When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.

  

  Laura Bush
  • People
  • World
  • Women

• People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Why
  • Think

• The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Science
  • Know
  • Progress

• I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • Business
  • Rules
  • Fair

• You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Yourself
  • Be Yourself

• There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • People
  • Magic
  • Sea

• Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Business
  • Know
  • Magic

• This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there.

  

  Weegee
  • Film
  • Nothing
  • Village

• Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Heaven
  • Marriage
  • Thought

• I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion’s sake.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Earth
  • Sky

• Two key rules of Third World travel: 1. Never run out of whiskey. 2. Never run out of whiskey.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Travel
  • Whiskey

• Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.

  

  E. B. White
  • Grandma

• The air in a man's lungs 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms, so that sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has ever lived - Michelangelo or George Washington or Moses.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Air

• We ask our neighbors in Saudi Arabia to stop hindering the rule of law and healthy economic development through the purchase of politicians and tribal leaders.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Law
  • Stop

• Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate; And many a Knot unravel'd by the Road; But not the Master-knot of Human Fate.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Road

• Clear. Decisive. Purposeful.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

• I've been in jail a couple times. I've been caught shoplifting.

  

  Diplo
  • Couple

• I was in a marriage, and we didn't make it. So my hope is, through my music, I can help heal some relationships that may be headed in that direction.

  

  Fred Hammond
  • Music
  • May
  • Help

• I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God.

  

  David Brainerd
  • Time
  • God
  • Long

• I never felt that I had the natural intellectual gifts that the people who graduate first in their class from Harvard Law had.

  

  Megyn Kelly
  • People
  • Law

• Soprano, basso, even the contra-alto, Wished him five fathom under the Rialto.

  

  Lord Byron

• Conventional wisdom suggests the primary motivator for entrepreneurs is money or wealth creation and, in fact, much of the political debate tends to center around what kind of tax or regulatory policy changes will turn corporate suits into small business adventurers overnight.

  

  Chip Conley
  • Money
  • Business
  • Political

• The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Future
  • Small
  • Lies

• Babies are like the smallest, drunkest people you know.

  

  Nick Swardson
  • Small
  • Drunk
  • Babies