Nigella Lawson (Nigella Lucy Lawson) Quotes

It s easier to impress someone than to give them pleasure.

Nigella Lawson

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• At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Mother

• Time is the ultimate long tail. Even with a big wad of money up front, if something sells forever, the back end is what ultimately counts.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• In the modern era, our nation experienced constant hardship and difficulties. The Chinese nation reached the most dangerous period. Since then, countless people with lofty ideals to realise the great revival of the Chinese nation rose to resist and fight, but failed one time after another.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• The truth is, I have more money than I'm interested in spending. Everyone in my family is taken care of.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Family
  • Money
  • Truth

• When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Respect
  • Practice
  • Thankful

• I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Music
  • Different
  • Film

• I was in a convent for a year.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Year
  • Convent

• I care about being creative and expressing myself.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Myself
  • Care
  • Creative

• I don't use labels a lot.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Use
  • Lot
  • Labels

• I think it's a mistake to work on success in career. I've worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Time
  • Work
  • Career

• Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture.

  

  Otto Dix
  • Art
  • Experience
  • Reality

• My waist used to be tiny. I just saw a picture of Miley Cyrus with a little crop top and low pants, and I'm like, 'That was me growing up in Brazil!' I had the typical model body, but after babies, it changed. I look more like a woman.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Woman

• I have to be socially aware; I feel like that's my job.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Job
  • Like
  • Feel

• We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • World
  • Live
  • Fix

• Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.

  

  Jack Paar
  • Life
  • Long
  • My Life

• It's important to know what motivates you, not what motivates somebody else.

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Important
  • You
  • Know

• The world is going on a high-speed connection; the Arab revolution is still dial-up. So we have to give it a little time to download. Regimes come and go, but art endures.

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • People
  • Couple
  • Legal

• I listen to music cinematically. I think about music and how it would make me feel when it's put to an image, a moving image, and I love it.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Music
  • Love
  • Moving

• If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Best
  • Look

• So its mix and match. Hold your line when you really feel something youre saying is wonderful and you really want to get this point across and prove it to your partner by just throwing it into the tape and letting it speak for itself.

  

  Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
  • Partner
  • Match
  • Itself

• The governments of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in power and grasp. It was, I venture to suggest, this semi-occult power which....pushed the mass of the American people into the cauldron of World War I.

  

  J. F. C. Fuller
  • People
  • World
  • Power

• A revolution must aim at the destruction of the given order and will succeed only by asserting an order of its own.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Revolution
  • Succeed
  • Destruction

• It s easier to impress someone than to give them pleasure.

  

  Nigella Lawson
  • Pleasure
  • Give
  • Impress