Nancy Springer Quotes

What's life without a spice of stupidity.

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• The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Think
  • Beauty
  • Architecture

• I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Pretty
  • Me
  • Reason

• There's nothing in the Bible that says, 'You must play video games.'

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Play
  • Bible
  • Video Games

• I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We're born, we're feisty for the first couple of years, and then the inevitable decline begins.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Love
  • Couple
  • Born

• It was a big-time change, coming off the bench.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Time
  • Change
  • Coming

• Don't do drugs.

  

  Eminem
  • Drugs
  • Don't Do

• I was watching 'Mr. Roger's Neighborhood', 'Sesame Street', 'Electric Company', 'Romper Room', and 'Villa Alegre!' when I said to my self, 'Hey, self! Wouldn't it be fun to be one of those kids on the TV?' My mom thought it was a pretty good idea, too... and she instantly moved us from the Bay Area to Malibu... nice.

  

  Keith Coogan
  • Good
  • She
  • Kids

• My inspiration is R. Kelly, Michael Jackson, and Prince - for the vocals, anyway.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Inspiration
  • Vocals

• All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.

  

  Derek Jarman
  • Men

• I think I just need more time to refine my skills, and I can be a dominant pass rusher.

  

  Austin Seferian-Jenkins
  • Time

• Certainly early on, I kind of modeled myself after Steve Martin and Bill Murray. I would imitate them sometimes.

  

  Jeff Garlin

• Sometimes I loved the disruptive student in class who livened up lectures with wisecracks - it put a spin on things, added flavor, made me laugh. Other times, I wished the heckler would just shut up so I could learn something.

  

  Kaui Hart Hemmings
  • Up

• Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea.

  

  Jacqueline Leo
  • Up
  • Great
  • Business

• My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B.

  

  John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates
  • American
  • Style

• I don't wake up each morning saying, 'Oh, wow, it's me. I think I'm the cat's meow. I'm the best.'

  

  Jeb Bush
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Cat

• I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words.

  

  Dennis Farina
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Words

• When Juan Antonio Samaranch said the Olympics are more important than the Catholic Church, I just couldn't believe it. I said to myself, 'Don't let your expression show that he has just made a total ass of himself. Be cool, and just keep right on talking.'

  

  Frank Deford
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Church

• Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid.

  

  Lynda Barry
  • Stupid

• With twenty six letters, you can create anything you like - any person, any world, any place, any emotion. And they are so potent, so powerful, and at the same time, they're marks on the page, and that's all. There's nothing else to them.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Time
  • World
  • Powerful

• Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety.

  

  William R. Alger
  • Mad
  • Drunk
  • Insane

• 'The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys, the motion of the traffic. The mighty towers stood like tombstones in a graveyard, leaning against the sky and waiting for - for what? Someday we'll know.'

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Life
  • Dream
  • City

• A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Real
  • Relationship
  • Woman

• What's life without a spice of stupidity.

  

  Nancy Springer
  • Life
  • Stupidity
  • Spice