Adam Nicolson Quotes
As the generation of leaves, so too is the generation of men. And as for leaves, the winds scatter some on the earth, But the new wood puts forth others, and spring comes again. So it is with men: as one generation is born, another dies.
Adam Nicolson
Quotes to Explore
I don't go to royal parties or play polo on horseback. No, I don't hang out with the posh crowd, if that makes sense.
Sam Claflin
I had to have shoulder reconstruction.
Daniel Craig
I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.
Mal Peet
When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.
Ian Mcewan
I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
Oliver Stone
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
W. Clement Stone
It was OK for the media to pursue Former President Clinton year after year for lying about a private, consensual sexual affair, but we have five justices who committed one of the biggest crimes in American History, and it ceased to be a big story.
Vincent Bugliosi
Giving the control over powerful AI to the highest bidder is unlikely to lead to the best world we can imagine.
Jaan Tallinn
Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.
Oliver Hudson
The last man that makes a joke owns it.
Finley Peter Dunne
You go to drama school, and the people you revere and admire are those who work on the London stage, and you hope that's a world that you'll be able to break into and do enough occasional television and small film work to eventually get to the point where you're paying the bills.
Taron Egerton
By the time [of modern] generation was coming of age sexually, there was already this idea of safe sex. But that didn't exist for me. I came out of the free-swinging '60s and '70s. It was free love, baby. That was it. We had very liberal sex-ed classes in 1973, a yearlong environmental science class, and then Women's Lib and Gay Liberation. So it's insane to go from that to Reagan and AIDS. It was like, "What happened? Where's my future?"
Michael Stipe
R.E.M.