Nigel Sylvester Quotes

It's always a pleasure to imagine an idea and work alongside a brand like G-Shock to make it a reality. G-Shock continues to push the bar with design and technology and that inspires me to do the same with my riding and visuals.

Nigel Sylvester

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• If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • Remember
  • Man
  • White

• I can never find a movie I want to watch, even though I've got hundreds to choose from.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Find

• I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Men
  • Women
  • Strong

• I wanted to build a tool for my generation: people 20 to 40 who don't want to spend time balancing a checkbook or checking multiple financial institutions' websites. Mint does just that, giving comprehensive, quick insights into a user's finances from their computer, mobile phone and/or tablet.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
  • Time
  • Giving

• I accomplished what I set out to do. I wanted the whole cookie, and I got it. Now I want to spend more time with my children - make sure they don't go through what I did.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Time
  • Children
  • Want

• A location-aware tablet will let us use what's called geodesign to compose participatory, what-if scenarios onsite, using maps that several people can share - something we could always do with paper but that's been a challenge with digital maps in the field.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • People
  • Always
  • Challenge

• My mother Earth!And thou fresh breaking Day, and you, ye Mountains,Why are ye beautiful? I cannot love ye.And thou, the bright eye of the universe,That openest over all, and unto allArt a delight-thou shin'st not on my heart.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Heart
  • Why
  • Mother

• The bottom line is that female writers aren't being given enough opportunities by male producers.

  

  Chris O'Dowd

• My family didn't have money to travel, so reading was how I knew about the world. It made me hungry to have more experiences than just what I could possibly experience in Arkansas.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • World
  • Family
  • Money

• Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• I wanted to travel from the beginning. As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes, before I ever flew in one.

  

  Mary Ellen Mark
  • Dream
  • Beginning
  • Travel

• I'm comfortable singing jazz. The only thing I was concerned about is that everybody, even in jazz, has their own style. To me, the queen of doodling was Ella Fitzgerald, and scatting is something I never thought I could do.

  

  Gladys Knight Gladys Knight & The Pips
  • Style
  • Singing

• Not being allowed to use the Internet is kind of like not being allowed to use a telephone.

  

  Kevin Mitnick

• I was stuck in a wheelchair playing this deranged villain. I felt this mass amount of rage at being so confined. I thought, 'What can I do that is the direct opposite of this situation?' The only thing I could think of was that I could sing and dance.

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • Dance

• There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow.

  

  Jan Karon
  • World
  • Power

• I was doing research on the Mormon handcart tragedy when I came across information about Brigham Young sending out missions to the Indians in 1855.

  

  David Roberts

• Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves.

  

  Bryant H. McGill
  • Different
  • Progress
  • Healing

• Every writer from Montaigne to William S. Burroughs has pasted and cut from previous work. Every artist, whether it's Warhol or, you know, Dangermouse or whoever.

  

  David Shields
  • Work

• The two teachers that I had in the Art Institute who affected me the most were Kathleen Blackshear and Robert von Neumann; Kathleen Blackshear because she taught a class called design - I can't remember, design something, and in this class - it met once a week - we would do work centered around some theme, word or subject or technique or whatever, and bring it in for a three-hour discussion. And Kathleen was able, in watching and looking at our work, to direct us to all kinds of things which might relate to what we were trying to do, but she never attempted to tell us what to do.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Remember

• Die Entscheidung, sich zum ersten Mal zu küssen, ist die wichtigste in jeder Liebesbeziehung. Es verändert die Beziehung von zwei Menschen wesentlich stärker als letzendlich die Kapitulation; denn dieser Kuss trägt die Kapitulation schon in sich.

  

  Emil Ludwig
  • Die

• That is one of the Law's purposes, of course: to test the qualities of those who choose to employ it.

  

  Frank Herbert
  • Law

• When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe.

  

  Plato
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Trained

• It's always a pleasure to imagine an idea and work alongside a brand like G-Shock to make it a reality. G-Shock continues to push the bar with design and technology and that inspires me to do the same with my riding and visuals.

  

  Nigel Sylvester
  • Reality
  • Technology
  • Design