Adam Nicolson Quotes

The place has entered me...it has coloured my life like a stain.

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• For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Home
  • Energy
  • Rest

• The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Great
  • Different
  • America

• Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Music
  • Know
  • Jazz

• It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Time
  • True
  • Girl

• There's nothing mathematical to my writing. It's a feeling.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Writing
  • Feeling
  • Nothing

• I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Happy
  • Rich
  • Concentration

• The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Women
  • Country
  • Struggle

• Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Never
  • Again
  • Divided

• It is tact that is golden, not silence.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Silence
  • Golden
  • Tact

• Being an entrepreneur is my dream job, as it tests ones tenacity.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Job
  • Dream
  • Entrepreneur

• Let's be clear about what Common Core is. It spells out what students should know at the end of each grade. The goal is to ensure that our students are sound in math and literacy and that our schools have some basic consistency nationwide. But the standards do not dictate a national curriculum, and teachers are not told how or what to teach.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Goal
  • End
  • Math

• When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Movie
  • You
  • See

• Educate yourself: Read up on current events and books.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Up
  • Yourself
  • Books

• The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Country
  • Fall

• Two hundred channel choices in most homes certainly gives you the world of choice. And so slicing it, dicing it, and offering someone their favorite thing - by the way, if it's not good enough, make it yourself and post it.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • World
  • Good
  • Choices

• For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Look
  • Wait
  • Diet

• In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Forever
  • President
  • Journalism

• I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Time
  • Great
  • Friends

• I grew up in a neighbourhood where there was a lot of fighting. It's what boys did during school, during recess, after school. And I was a fairly large kid. So everyone wanted to see if they could take me on.

  

  Mark Kurlansky
  • Up
  • School
  • Fighting

• In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

  

  Charles Eames
  • Design
  • Architecture

• The only lasting truth is change. God is change.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • God
  • Truth
  • Change

• But one led to two, two led to four, four led to eight, until at the end it was about 85 a day - the doctors could not believe I was taking that much. And that was just the valium - I'm not talking about the other pills I went through.

  

  Corey Haim
  • Believe
  • Doctors
  • Pills

• If any continue through life in the condition of the hired laborer, it is not the fault of the system, but because of either a dependent nature which prefers it, or improvidence, folly, or singular misfortune.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Life
  • Nature

• The place has entered me...it has coloured my life like a stain.

  

  Adam Nicolson
  • Life
  • Place
  • Coloured