Nickolas Ashford Quotes

I would just sweat so much. I'd be dry when I run on the stage. By the time I got in front of the microphone, it just, just like a river pouring out. I don't know what made that happen. It took five years for that to stop happening to me.

Nickolas Ashford

• Running
• Sweat
• Microphones
• Pouring

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• As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Mother
  • Child
  • Stories

• Perhaps concentrated wealth will inspire a nation of innovative problem-solvers. But if the view of many economists is right - that it sometimes discourages innovation - then we should worry.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Worry
  • Innovation
  • Inspire

• Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Remember
  • Political
  • Moral

• Anytime there was an award show, it was a ritual where me and my mom would sit around and watch with my friends. We would make desserts and buy chips and popcorn and see what our favorite performances of the night were.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Friends
  • Night
  • Mom

• We've got to be fair. You can't say a place that has strip joints is sacred ground. We've got to be just. We've got to speak the truth. We've got to have justice for everybody. We're a country of justice for all, not justice for non-Muslims only or some groups and not for others.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Country
  • Truth
  • Justice

• I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Always
  • Enjoy
  • First-Person

• It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Single

• Most fish require a short cooking time, but cephalopods are the exception to this fishy rule. As with some cuts of larger land beasts, the longer they're cooked, the more tender they get.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Time
  • Cooking
  • Short

• The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.

  

  Ian Schrager
  • Time
  • Music
  • Kid

• Moi ! moi qui me suis dit mage ou ange, dispensé de toute morale, je suis rendu au sol.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud

• Coming into high school, it's scary. You don't know which group to be in, and I can't stand that it's so cliquey.

  

  Alexa Vega
  • School
  • High
  • Scary

• Well, I guess, but I just feel so strong. Actually, it was probably when I was 50 that we were trying to - to get pregnant, and I thought that I could do it then.

  

  Cheryl Tiegs
  • Trying
  • Strong

• Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

  

  Jean de la Bruyere
  • Marriage

• Since 'Huckleberry Finn,' or thereabouts, it seemed that all American literature was about the alienated hero.

  

  Bobbie Ann Mason
  • American
  • Literature
  • Hero

• Show business has always been my life. I love it. I've shared the ups and downs. So it will still be my life. It is a big piece of your life because this is all you know. It just seems like it takes you to such great heights in your life.

  

  James Victor Scott
  • Life
  • Great
  • Business

• I'm not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected.

  

  James Purefoy

• In the full light of day, I don't want to think about the sunset.

  

  Shakira
  • Light
  • Sunset

• John Carpenter had a lot to do with putting social messages into genre movies.

  

  Jason Blum

• I just happened to step into acting. And now I can't imagine myself doing anything else.

  

  Dylan O'Brien

• There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other neurons in the brain. Based on this, people have calculated that the number of permutations and combinations of brain activity exceeds the number of elementary particles in the universe.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • People
  • Universe
  • Brain

• America needs education reform on all levels to expand quality schools, build on past successes, and lower college debt.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • America
  • Past
  • Education

• I'm a big sports fan in general.

  

  Luke Bryan
  • Sports

• We are up against the unseen power that controls this dark world and the spiritual agents are from the very headquarters of evil. Therefore, we must wear the "whole armour of God," that we may be able to resist evil in its day of power, and that even when we have fought to a standstill, we may still stand our ground.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Up
  • World
  • God

• I would just sweat so much. I'd be dry when I run on the stage. By the time I got in front of the microphone, it just, just like a river pouring out. I don't know what made that happen. It took five years for that to stop happening to me.

  

  Nickolas Ashford
  • Running
  • Sweat
  • Microphones