William Nicholson Quotes

The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.

William Nicholson

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• Drinking
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• It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Good
  • Find
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• Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Poetry
  • Years
  • Living

• You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Up
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• I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Read
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• Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Up
  • Like
  • Religion

• I don't want to come off as one of those artists that's not down to earth and real.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Real
  • Want
  • Earth

• I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Religion
  • Seriously
  • Effect

• The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Ignorant

• I need to have proper equipment when I work out, and the Nike Frees are light, comfortable, and great for training. I also usually bring a short-sleeve or long-sleeve compression shirt and a pair of shorts.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Work
  • Great
  • Long

• My mum is a bit unconventional; she's outdoorsy and has more of an emotional intelligence, whereas my dad is pragmatic; he's a businessman.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • She
  • Dad
  • Emotional

• I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Change
  • Voice
  • Before

• When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • You
  • Always
  • Young

• It was the late Dr. Mahendra Lal Sircar who, by founding the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, made it possible for the scientific aspirations of my early years to continue burning brightly.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Science
  • Early
  • Late

• There are a lot of people who helped make Queen Latifah who she is today. I don't forget, but a lot of people do and get big heads. My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home. I'm not allowed to get a big head; I've still got to do the simple things in life.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Life
  • Home

• I think the attraction of 'American Idol' is about the basic human nature attitude that is, 'We can put you up there. But we can take you down.'

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Up
  • American
  • Nature

• After having supplied myself with provisions from Mr. Travis's, I scratched a hole under a pile of fence rails in a field, where I concealed myself for six weeks, never leaving my hiding place but for a few minutes in the dead of night to get water, which was very near.

  

  Nat Turner
  • Night
  • Water
  • Myself

• Folks say that you've found someone new to do the things I used to do for you. Just call my name, I'm not ashamed, I'll come running back to you. Can't sleep at night, Ican't eat a bite. When you were mine I didn't treat you right. Just call my name,I know, I know I'm not ashamed. I'll come running back to you.

  

  Sam Cooke
  • Night
  • Running
  • Sleep

• We have no other alternative than independence, or the most ignominious and galling servitude. The legions of our enemies thicken on our plains; desolation and death mark their bloody career; whilst the mangled corpses of our countrymen seem to cry out to us as a voice from Heaven.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Career
  • Death
  • Heaven

• «Some aspects of the Spanish economy are going well, ... but it is not because you govern ... What has been your main virtue as a ruler? Not ruining the economy, and therefore I applaud. He could have razed everything he found, ... but no, he had the right to leave the economy as it was before.»

  

  Mariano Rajoy
  • Spanish

• I lived most of my life with a Charlie Brown or Murphy’s Law attitude that said, “It’s normal for things to go wrong, so if anything goes right, it must be a mistake.

  

  Charles H. Kraft
  • Mistake
  • Right
  • Wrong

• Dearest Cecilia, You’d be forgiven for thinking me mad, the way I acted this afternoon. The truth is I feel rather light headed and foolish in your presence, Cee, and I don’t think I can blame the heat.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Thinking
  • Truth
  • Light

• Words had become to him a means of obscuring facts - not of revealing them. He was an adept in the art of the useful phrase - that is to say the phrase that falls soothingly on the ear and is quite empty of meaning.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Art
  • Words

• I cannot go on.... All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Written
  • Seen
  • Revealed

• The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.

  

  William Nicholson
  • Thinking
  • Wine
  • Drinking