Nick Simmons Quotes

I put my heart and soul into my book - great story and awesome characters... yet people are trying to pull me down.

Nick Simmons

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• I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Lost

• I've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Nice
  • Beginning
  • Start

• I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • Up
  • Me
  • Passion

• You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Important
  • Job
  • Learn

• The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Nice
  • Woman
  • Child

• I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.

  

  Laura Z. Hobson
  • American
  • Think
  • Myself

• A friend told me about the casting notice for 'Queer Eye.' I was in Chicago and I had a contract with 'Esquire' magazine, so had been coming to New York City regularly and thought I'd catch a cheap flight, crash on a friend's sofa and do this hilarious audition that I had no chance of winning.

  

  Ted Allen
  • City
  • Friend
  • Winning

• People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • People
  • Great
  • Dance

• Our experiences of the Solstice depends entirely upon where we are when it occurs. Neither Solstice encompasses everyone. Neither can. The Solstices stand forever opposed, literally at the two poles of our Earth and experiences.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Earth
  • Forever
  • Stand

• Mozambique and Zimbabwe must bring into being a new force in Malawi. We must not allow South Africa to set the course in Malawi... The victory is being planned... It demands cold-bloodedness.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Cold
  • Victory
  • Africa

• When you reach a certain age, and people see you on television, they look at you and think, 'Wow! Everything must be great!' Well, everything isn't always great. You can be hailed on the street corner, but you still have to go home and take out the garbage.

  

  Larry King
  • People
  • Great
  • Home

• 'I did not ask for objections, but for comments, or helpful suggestions. I looked for more loyalty from you, Captain Hornblower.' That made the whole argument pointless. If Leighton only wanted servile agreement there was no sense in continuing.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Loyalty

• Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Time
  • Good

• Honestly, I would never say, 'Oh, I've decided not to read 'The Left Hand of Darkness' because I've seen 'Blade Runner.' I've decided not to read 'Neuromancer' because I've seen 'Blade Runner.''

  

  Laeta Kalogridis
  • Hand

• It's better to train for 4-5 hours a week than to do ten hours one week then nothing for two weeks. It helps your body adapt and also maintains your fitness.

  

  Alistair Brownlee
  • Fitness

• Ultimately, we're making and selling a consumer good that needs to work and that needs to make customers happy.

  

  Emily Weiss
  • Good
  • Work
  • Happy

• There's a tendency for designers to embellish the size of their business. I never lie.

  

  Carolina Herrera
  • Business

• I still remember sitting in my parent's basement playing 'Final Fantasy VII' in middle school. When Sephiroth came down like LeBron James on Aerith with that sword, I couldn't talk for a full 20 minutes.

  

  Chieh Huang
  • School
  • Remember

• Navalny is doing a very important thing in his segment of society. Gudkov is a doing a very important thing in his segment of society. Yabloko, or more accurately, some of the leaders of the Yabloko party, are doing a very important job in their segment of the population, people such as Schlosberg. And our organization Open Russia is also doing important work with its segment of society, because those people who are focused on us, our segment, they're not part of those other segments.

  

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky
  • Important
  • Leader
  • Focused

• It's a political and manipulative industry. Actors vie for the same roles, movies are snatched away. Have I ever been manipulated? Yes. But I haven't manipulated anyone because if you think from the heart, you cannot be calculative. I have spent nights crying.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Heart
  • Political
  • Same

• His heart beating faster, his throat drying, Nabby whispered to the driver, ‘Not so bloody fast.’ ‘Tuan?’ ‘All right, all right.’ One of these days he must really get down to the language. There never seemed to be the time, somehow....

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Time
  • Heart

• As evacuation eases the body, so occasional ejectment of passion seems to appease the agonies of the soul, and dispose to tranquility the agitations of the heart.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Passion

• I have had so much at heart. Defeated, not conquered; disappointed, not discouraged. I have but to be more energetic and more faithful in the difficult and painful vocation to which my life is devoted.

  

  Dorothea Dix
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Disappointed

• I put my heart and soul into my book - great story and awesome characters... yet people are trying to pull me down.

  

  Nick Simmons
  • Heart
  • Book
  • Soul