Nikki Sixx (Frank Carlton Serafino Feranna, Jr.) Quotes

When you've tasted excess, everything else tastes bland.

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• My fondest memories were watching the Beastie Boys get prepped to come on stage. They had a lot of antics and they play a lot of basketball... then they were giving out cameras to the crowd, and performing from the bleachers. The most important thing I learned was that you control your crowd, not the other way around.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Important
  • Giving
  • Control

• I'm blessed because I had my mom as a teacher - sixth through eighth grade - and she is one of the best teachers I've ever had.

  

  Bellamy Young
  • She
  • Mom
  • Teacher

• When you're not finding the fairway, it's hard to be consistent. [Right now] I'm comfortable and I'm not so comfortable, if that makes sense.

  

  Aaron John Baddeley

• Give up all hope, all illusion, all desire..I've tried. I've tried and still I desire, I still desire not to desire and hope to be without hope and have the illusion I can be without illusions..Give up, I say. Give up everything, including the desire to be saved.

  

  Luke Rhinehart
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Desire

• No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can't we learn from all we've been through after two thousand years?

  

  Billy Joel
  • Why
  • Learn
  • Sorrow

• Well, it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell truths... The first kind, they show you life like you want it to be. With villains getting what they deserve and the hero seeing what a fool he's been and marrying the heroine and happy endings and all that... But the second kind, they show you life more like it is... The first kind makes you cheerful and contented, but the second kind shakes you up.

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • Stories
  • Books
  • Truths

• Our position is very clear that the Ulster freedom fighters will not address the issue of decommissioning till such times as the IRA make their moves first

  

  John Whiting
  • Freedom
  • Clear
  • Issue

• Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear.

  

  Euripides
  • Death
  • Bear
  • Anguish

• It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Numbers
  • Weight
  • Experiments

• Keep your mouth shut, and close up the doors of sight and sound, and as long as you live you will have no vexation. But open your mouth, or become inquisitive, and you will be in trouble all your life long.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Life
  • Live
  • Trouble

• If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heaven
  • Married

• Marriage was ordained for a remedy and to increase the world and for the man to help the woman and the woman the man, with all love and kindness.

  

  William Tyndale
  • World
  • Men
  • Helping

• I believe very strongly in paid sick leave.

  

  Carolyn Maloney
  • Sick
  • Paid

• Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thing
  • Moderation
  • Excess

• Hard work certainly goes a long way. These days a lot of people work hard, so you have to make sure you work even harder and really dedicate yourself to what you are doing and setting out to achieve.

  

  Lakshmi Mittal
  • People
  • Work
  • Long

• When I contrast the loving Jesus, comprehending all things in his ample and tender charity, with those who profess to bear his name, marking their zeal by what they do not love, it seems to me as though men, like the witches of old, had read the Bible backward, and had taken incantations out of it for evil, rather than inspiration for good.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Jesus
  • Inspiration
  • Bible

• When you've tasted excess, everything else tastes bland.

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • Excess
  • Tasted
  • Bland