Nick Cave Quotes

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

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• The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • May
  • Learn
  • Human

• During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Town

• Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Time
  • School
  • Wisdom

• My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.

  

  Nas
  • Music
  • Strong
  • Memories

• They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Door
  • Sense
  • Walk

• Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • You
  • Rich
  • Will

• When I'm singing, I connect the dots with notes.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Singing
  • Notes
  • Dots

• Growing up, in my under-15 days I used to be a wicketkeeper, and that carried on till I was 17. Then I started focusing on my batting and moved on. I got into the Ranji team quite early, and generally, as a youngster, the first place you are put in is at bat-pad and short leg, so you had to work on your close-in fielding straightaway.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Up
  • Work
  • Growing

• I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart, won't need to sacrifice any of her leisure time when she gets home.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Time
  • Home
  • She

• The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Today
  • Information

• We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Why
  • She
  • Help

• We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Know
  • Company
  • Stars

• We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Future
  • Architecture

• In my humble opinion, change is stupid.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Change
  • Opinion
  • Stupid

• I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Work
  • Education
  • Refugees

• I came to running late. It was something I had always wanted to do, but I always end up getting hurt. It didn't occur to me that I could actually slow down and walk a little bit!

  

  Veronica Webb
  • Up
  • Running
  • Hurt

• So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

  

  Aaron Copland
  • Music
  • Long
  • Meaning

• I have used Proactiv, and I use X Out, and they are the only things that work for me.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Work
  • Me
  • Things

• Nobody has it all, but for me to even come close is amazing.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Me
  • Amazing
  • Nobody

• I'm the type of person who far prefers a vacation filled with trips to museums and art galleries, shopping and exploring vintage flea markets, people-watching at cafes, and discovering delicious restaurants as opposed to lounging on a beach for days on end.

  

  Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
  • People
  • Art
  • Beach

• Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel like I'm making little star maps when I write poems.

  

  Aaron Belz
  • Writing
  • Feeling
  • Play

• Every second he breathed, the smell of the grass, the cool air on his face, was so precious: To think that people had years and years, time to waste, so much time it dragged, and he was clinging to each second.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• The only question I ever ask any woman is, 'what time is your husband coming home?'

  

  Paul Newman
  • Home
  • Question
  • Husband

• I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • God
  • Church
  • Believer