Nick Laird Quotes

We would all rather be loved for what we seem to be.

Nick Laird

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• I like to connect with people and suss them out. There's no better way than seeing how they react if you just bear into them.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • Better
  • Bear

• The best way to hold a man is in your arms.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Way
  • Best

• It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Work
  • Family
  • Kids

• I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs - boiled or fried - a few bananas and a glass of milk.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Breakfast
  • Bread
  • Diet

• My awkward stage extended well into high school.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• Even though it's a shortened format of the game, Twenty20 allows people with different skills to play in a team and play their specific roles. Obviously there's not too much time to waste balls, but if you look at guys who play well in the top six, they have a fairly decent amount of good cricketing ability.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I know people from working with them on films, but they're not the ones I would meet up with... I'm just a normal person!

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • People
  • Up
  • Know

• You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • You
  • Pain
  • Right

• Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Long
  • Women
  • History

• I was 24 when Samori was born. His mom was 23.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Mom
  • Born
  • I Was Born

• Individually, I am very happy because I can play in every game. I can be on the pitch and do what I like to do, which is play football.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Game
  • Play
  • Football

• When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • World
  • Find
  • New

• First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.

  

  Saint Basil
  • World
  • Food
  • Silence

• Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!

  

  Pat Riley
  • Up
  • Important
  • Voice

• If somebody takes masses of non-registered immigrants from the Middle East into a country, this also means importing terrorism, criminalism, anti-Semitism, and homophobia.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Country
  • Terrorism

• I'm not a biographer, I'm a novelist.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Novelist

• I think all tennis players have to struggle through the early stages of their career. We start off playing tournaments and really just get by. I always had a dream to play in the big tournaments and never have doubted if it was worth it. Having to battle a little early on in my career makes it all the more worthwhile now.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Career
  • Dream
  • Struggle

• I saw this documentary he did years ago called 'Fade to Black.' I was always a Jay Z fan - I liked Jay Z - but after I saw that documentary, I loved Jay Z. I realized how intelligent he was.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Black
  • Intelligent
  • Fade

• The power of network television is amazing. I've been performing for years but have been seen on only a few episodes of this show, and people spot me in public now all the time. They say, 'Hey, aren't you on 'Nashville'?' Most locals seem to really appreciate how authentic the show is.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • People
  • Time
  • Power

• We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Loved
  • Warm
  • Each

• At Cornell, my acting teacher said you cannot be religious and be an artist. I sort of got it, because faith is a comfort and art comes from a lot of places, in a lot of people, from the dark chasm.

  

  Catherine Hicks
  • Religious
  • Artist
  • Teacher

• There are women to whom nature has granted the gift of silent emotion. They have mobile faces, changeful eyes, soft lips, which express joy or desolation naturally, and with the charm of perfect simplicity and truth.

  

  Sarah Doudney
  • Women
  • Truth
  • Eyes

• We would all rather be loved for what we seem to be.

  

  Nick Laird
  • Loved
  • To Be
  • Seem