Nigel Kneale Quotes

What can there be concerning outer space but ignorance?

Nigel Kneale

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• To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Nature
  • Human
  • Insult

• What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • World
  • Women
  • War

• Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its 'saucy nuances.'

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Tired

• It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Important
  • You
  • Party

• Being happy is very important. We won our second championship last season and we have our entire team coming back to try and defend our title again. I'm very proud of that.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Important
  • Happy
  • Team

• Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • True
  • Ideas
  • New

• Without the foundation of law, this vast country could never have survived as one, could never have absorbed streams of immigrants from myriad cultures. With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.

  

  Anthony Lewis
  • Country
  • America
  • War

• And it was the idea that you can do a play - like a Shakespeare play, or any well-written play, Arthur Miller, whatever - and say things you could never imagine saying, never imagine thinking in your own life.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • Life
  • Thinking

• In the world of crime novels, the annual Audible Sounds of Crime awards are a pretty big deal, and I was thrilled to be shortlisted for my fifth novel in my bestselling Nic Costa series.

  

  David Hewson
  • World
  • Pretty

• It's okay if you get rejected 20, 30 or 200 times... You don't need everyone to like your story - you just need one person who really likes your story.

  

  Ken Liu

• The kind of young woman who can be a terrific torchbearer has high standards all the time, not just in her prom dress, but every, ordinary day.

  

  Margaret D. Nadauld
  • Time
  • High
  • Prom

• People flash back to pictures of me when I was 12 and say 'Kylie's so different,' but how can I look the same from 12 -18?

  

  Kylie Jenner
  • People
  • Different

• I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Hope

• Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • People
  • World
  • Earth

• I used all that doubt as fuel for my own music, fuel for my drive to succeed.

  

  Jody Watley Shalamar
  • Music
  • Doubt

• Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music. My sister takes her ideas and fashions them into poems. My brother uses his ideas to help him understand science. I take my ideas and turn them into stories.

  

  Avi
  • Music
  • Help
  • Science

• People make mistakes - they say things they shouldn't have or didn't necessarily mean. But I strongly believe in consequences. If there are none, someone might feel like they've gotten away with something, or that what they said couldn't have been that bad.

  

  Katherine Heigl
  • People
  • Believe
  • Bad

• President Bush has said that he does not need approval from the UN to wage war, and I'm thinking, well, hell, he didn't need the approval of the American voters to become president, either.

  

  David Letterman
  • Thinking
  • American
  • War

• I have this ability to really leave set and just cut off from it immediately.

  

  Dylan Minnette

• Patience with family members and others who are close to us is vital for us to have happy homes.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Family
  • Happy
  • Patience

• I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.

  

  Robert Smith The Cure
  • Parents
  • Stop

• I was doing a play in New York, which we had done in New Haven, Connecticut. It was an American premiere of a play called The Changing Room written by a wonderful man named David Story. It was about a rugby team in the North of England. It got just screaming rave reviews. At that time, virtually every major critic went up to the Long Wharf Theater to see a new play like that.

  

  Richard Masur
  • Wonderful
  • Havens
  • Reviews

• What can there be concerning outer space but ignorance?

  

  Nigel Kneale