Nigel Rees Quotes

I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got a sort of armour.

Nigel Rees

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• I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.

  

  Larry Bird
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• Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

  

  Walter Anderson
  • Life
  • Character
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• Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
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• I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.

  

  Beck
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• Enjoy every sandwich.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Enjoy
  • Every
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• I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.

  

  Aaron Paul
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  • Know
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• No man fails who does his best.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Best
  • Fails

• The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.

  

  Ice T
  • Music
  • Acting
  • Yourself

• I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Women
  • Vote
  • Count

• I like radio and live performing stuff. I don't like the television stuff as much.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Live
  • Television
  • Radio

• The dearest things I know are what you are.

  

  Oscar Hammerstein II
  • You
  • Know
  • Things

• What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Good
  • Faith
  • Value

• A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Man
  • Own
  • Comfortable

• And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • Me
  • Best
  • Years

• Short cuts make long delays.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Long
  • Short
  • Delays

• On Monday I come in and get in a full body workout, and then I come back in on Wednesday and do a quick six, which consists of bench press, biceps and triceps curls, pull downs, something for the back and the neck. And then you come back and hit it again on Friday with a 16-machine workout.

  

  LaMarr Woodley
  • Body
  • Workout
  • Friday

• I don't totally believe that all of the politicians see a problem with the gap between the scores of black children and other groups. I believe that many politicians think this has been the way it has always been, so what's the problem?

  

  Barry Williams
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Black

• I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Life
  • Different
  • Earth

• I love working with older actors because number one, I can learn so much from them because they have so much experience. And it's fun to hear their stories from their era, some of the jokes.

  

  Donnie Yen
  • Experience
  • Fun

• The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the individual to ask himself: Is my reaction individual, or am I merely reacting from my mob-self? When it comes to the so-called obscene words, I should say that hardly one person in a million escapes mob-reaction.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Up
  • May
  • Words

• I grew up on Avenue C, and Tompkins Square Park was my park. That was where I played ball every day. I lived in that park.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Up
  • Day
  • Everyday

• The irony of the media and people in big cities is that they're charged with defining the entire culture, when in reality they don't even live in that culture. They live in such a rarified, tiny world.

  

  Meghan Daum
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• A story is not only meaning, it's music as well.

  

  Aharon Appelfeld
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Stories

• I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got a sort of armour.

  

  Nigel Rees
  • School
  • Words
  • Shy