Nick Cave Quotes

The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.

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• The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Books
  • Read
  • Just

• We have a problem. 'Congratulations.' But it's a tough problem. 'Then double congratulations.'

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Problem
  • Tough
  • Congratulations

• What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Me

• The problem of different sensitivities of distinct protein groups to lysosomal inhibitors has remained unsolved and may have served as an important trigger in the future quest for a non-lysosomal proteolytic system that may be involved in at least certain aspects of intracellular protein degradation.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Different
  • Important
  • May

• Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It's self-destructive. It's a problem on all levels - even regular people can have big ego problems.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • People
  • Problem
  • Ego

• We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Problem
  • Environment
  • Military

• What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • Love
  • Reading

• At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Idea
  • Unity
  • Rendering

• There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Young
  • Books
  • Laugh

• Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • People
  • Idea
  • Nothing

• I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Me
  • Running
  • Idea

• I don't think about who the audience is for my books.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Think
  • Audience
  • Books

• I like the idea of the comedy of resilience.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Comedy
  • Idea
  • Resilience

• Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Books
  • Forgotten
  • Remembered

• If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Problem
  • Wisdom
  • See

• Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Like
  • Books
  • Pool

• I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • True
  • Problem
  • Improvement

• I like to read a couple books at once. I was reading the Princess Diana book. I'm reading a book about Chicago and the mob. Right now I'm also reading the Bible, beginning to end. I'm very religious. That's how I've gotten to where I am.

  

  Heidi Montag
  • Bible
  • Books
  • Princess Diana

• Whether people like it or not, you have to say the Old Firm are a major part of Scottish football. I know there is a lot of resentment from other clubs about that, but it's a fact.

  

  Walter Smith
  • People
  • Know
  • Football

• Iran has agreed to deepen our coordination as we work to locate Robert Levinson, missing from Iran for more than eight years. Even as we rejoice in the safe return of others, we will never forget about Bob. Each and every day our hearts are with the Levinson family, and we will not rest until their family is whole again.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Family
  • Heart

• Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.

  

  William Allen White
  • Should
  • Tolerance
  • Weakness

• Prayer means lovingly contemplating the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, allowing our hearts to be enkindled to praise and adore the love and omnipotence of the most blessed Trinity.

  

  Basilea Schlink
  • Love
  • Prayer
  • Praise

• The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Problem
  • Idea
  • Books