Nicholas Evans Quotes

It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts!

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• If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Man
  • Himself
  • Complain

• The idea that everything is purposeful really changes the way you live. To think that everything that you do has a ripple effect, that every word that you speak, every action that you make affects other people and the planet.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • People
  • Live
  • Action

• Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audience disagrees with.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Political
  • Mistake
  • Organization

• So many girls trying to be models, like, 'Oh my god, I want to be a model!' Nobody really knows the reality of it. It's a lot of hard work, but at the same time, it's a lot of fun.

  

  Olga Fonda
  • Time
  • Work
  • God

• My mother's proud of where she's from, and her history, and her past, and same with my dad. I have roots in Africa. Like, I am from Africa as well as from Germany, and I am very proud of that.

  

  Zendaya
  • She
  • History
  • Mother

• You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.

  

  Larry McMurtry
  • Good
  • Country
  • Simple

• Oh, God, will you SHUT UP! GODDAMMIT, WILL YOU SHUT YOUR FUCKIN' MOUTH! YOU'RE HIS WHORE! OH! OHHHH!

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
  • God

• The story of the tragic decline of an Indian family whose members suffer the terrible consequences of forbidden love, The God of Small Things is set in the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India.

  

  Arundhati Roy
  • God
  • Family
  • Small

• Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.

  

  Maureen Forrester
  • Great
  • Music
  • Spiritual

• I've created tens of thousands of jobs over the years.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Job
  • Create

• I never had a particular sound. There was no Lou Adler sound like there's a Phil Spector sound. I always tried to make the records about the artists and their particular sound.

  

  Lou Adler

• I think people get confused about who Merlin is. It's not his age that makes him: it's wisdom, and wisdom is not necessarily linked to age. Definitely not in the same way in the world of 'Once Upon a Time.'

  

  Elliot Knight
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• I think it's important to remember that music supervision is not just about a fantastic record collection or knowledge of music, although that certainly helps for aspiring music supervisors.

  

  Alexandra Patsavas
  • Music
  • Important
  • Remember

• The people who ask me for my autograph are the people who've put me here today, and you can't afford to forget that.

  

  Katie Price
  • People
  • Today

• All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Progress

• Whenever people say, 'You should be president,' I say, 'I thought you liked me.' Listen, I thought being mayor of Stamford was a wonderful job. Being governor of a state for a period of time is a wonderful job, and I'm not sure I'm at all attracted to Washington.

  

  Dannel Malloy
  • People
  • Time
  • Job

• 'War Horse' was all flat caps and thick trousers.

  

  Matt Milne
  • War
  • Horse

• In the near term, oil is galloping ahead and leading our economy. We have to corral the "horse" and gradually reduce our dependence on oil and coal, in their present forms. Green-energy investment is inherently high-tech, and we could lead in the next-generation energy technologies, as we did and do now with oil and gas. All it takes is leadership!

  

  Wesley K. Wark
  • Energy
  • Technology
  • Horse

• Almost anything can be justified as a style of filmmaking if it works.

  

  Doug Liman
  • Style

• It seems to me in a general sense we as a society are enamored with the mystical, mysterious, the unseen & unknown. We are looking for the hidden teaching, the secret scroll or fountain of youth, and of course heaven and hell.

  

  Bryan Kest
  • Society
  • Heaven
  • Sense

• It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts!

  

  Nicholas Evans
  • Horse
  • Nuts
  • Rider