Nigella Lawson (Nigella Lucy Lawson) Quotes

You could probably get through life without knowing how to roast a chicken, but the question is, would you want to?

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• Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Bad
  • Thing
  • Defined

• Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Really
  • Kid
  • Ever

• Most high-level models that I've ever met are actually well-travelled; they're cultured, and no guy laying a cheesy line on them is actually going to impact their world.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • World
  • High
  • Guy

• Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Fun
  • Game
  • Reality

• Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Attention
  • Always
  • See

• Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.

  

  Fannie Flagg
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Women
  • Kind
  • Movies

• We think of the Marine Corps as a military outfit, and of course it is, but for me, the U.S. Marine Corps was a four-year crash course in character education. It taught me how to make a bed, how to do laundry, how to wake up early, how to manage my finances. These are things my community didn't teach me.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Up
  • Character
  • Education

• A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Marriage
  • Sad
  • Act

• When I was a little, little kid, my family got a new washing machine, and they had a big box that was left over. So I cut a big hole in the box, and I made it like a giant TV set. I brought it into the living room, and I did the news and the weather for my family.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Family
  • Weather
  • Box

• Investment in training is a huge necessity for knowledge-based corporations.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Knowledge
  • Training
  • Investment

• The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.

  

  Waldemar Januszczak
  • World
  • Men
  • Thinking

• Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Today
  • Simple
  • Perfection

• It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.

  

  Patrick Lussier
  • Character
  • Fun
  • Present

• My parents gave me a boxer puppy as a present. I have wanted a dog for years and must first give her attention in the morning.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Parents
  • Attention
  • Morning

• I was a James Brown junkie as a kid.

  

  L.A. Reid
  • Kid
  • Brown
  • James

• Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Music
  • Chaos
  • Harmony

• Confidence is one of the sexiest things in guys and girls.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Confidence
  • Things
  • Sexiest

• If you look at things like Google Now also. Maybe you want to just have a question answered for you before you ask it.

  

  Larry Page
  • Question

• Such religion as there can be in modern life, every individual will have to salvage from the churches for himself.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Life

• Revenge is a powerful motivator.

  

  Marcus Luttrell
  • Powerful
  • Revenge

• You don't get to recall a senator just because you don't like her or just because you want the seat for your own party.

  

  Jason Kander
  • Party

• The Christian is joyful, not because he is blind to injustice and suffering, but because he is convinced that these, in the light of the divine sovereignty, are never ultimate. The Christian can be sad, and often is perplexed, but he is never really worried, because he knows that the purpose of God is to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • God
  • Together
  • Earth

• You could probably get through life without knowing how to roast a chicken, but the question is, would you want to?

  

  Nigella Lawson
  • Life
  • Want
  • Chicken