Nick Cave Quotes

One thing that I'm really interested in is the kind of esoteric detail that surrounds these great figures. And Wikipedia is full of that kind of stuff, whether it's true or untrue. It staggers me: why, in the short space assigned to a person or an event, that kind of random information is there. To be honest, that's wonderful fuel for songwriting.

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• The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Life
  • Will
  • Loss

• The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Learn
  • Personality
  • Box

• My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Good
  • Family
  • Road

• While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Book

• The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.

  

  Earl Long
  • Good
  • Know
  • Kind

• Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

  

  Mae West
  • Office
  • Reward
  • Box

• Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. When you work with the best, you have to raise your game. If you're working with people who are sub par, you're not forced to give 100 percent because you can get by on 80 percent.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • People
  • Work
  • Game

• I hate wearing makeup because I am just too lazy to take it off at night.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Night
  • Hate
  • Makeup

• We are working essentially to build a leadership force of folks who will, during their first two years of teaching, actually put their kids on a different trajectory - not just survive as a new teacher, but actually help close the achievement gap for their kids.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Different
  • Kids
  • Help

• The weather records of the U.S.A. are the best kept and most accessible in the world, thanks to consistent government/military taxpayer support. There are longer European data sets, but the U.S.A. data is enough to forecast major extreme events.

  

  Piers Corbyn
  • World
  • Support
  • Military

• The last time I twerked I was with @katyperry. She was rather good at it!

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Time
  • Good
  • She

• Go back to what's good, what's certain, what's always there. You woke up today. Just start walking.

  

  Jesse L. Martin
  • Up
  • Good
  • Today

• There is nothing attractive about the gospel to the natural man; the only man who finds the gospel attractive is the man who is convicted of sin.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Natural
  • Sin
  • Attractive

• As long as I can get angry then I play well. If I play well I can beat everybody. I am happy because I am getting angry.

  

  Ilie Nastase
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Angry

• I'm kind of horny, conventional methods of making love kind of bore me.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Kind
  • Method
  • Bores

• Silences, as every observer knows, have strange characteristics all their own - passionate silences, and hateful silences, and silences full of friendly, purring content.

  

  Alice Duer Miller
  • Silence
  • Content
  • Characteristics

• We have succeeded in observing two laws of the utmost importance, the first is that the increase in the number of heart beats is in quite direct proportion to the sum of the weights lifted to a determined height, the second is that the quantity.

  

  Antoine Lavoisier
  • Heart
  • Proportion
  • Quantity

• If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.

  

  Erich von Stroheim
  • Speak
  • Dead
  • Tense

• Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. If we want the Arms Act to be repealed, if we want to learn the use of arms, here is a golden opportunity. If the middle classes render voluntary help to Government in the hour of its trial, distrust will disappear, and the ban on possessing arms will be withdrawn.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • History
  • Opportunity
  • Government

• I promise you, if you reach that point where you are not afraid to figure out who you are, what you want and what your values are, you will not fear that anymore. You will not do it, you will be smarter.

  

  Christi Paul
  • Promise
  • Values
  • Figures

• There are things in your life you can control - and there are variables you can't. The more diligent you are at controlling what you can, the more influence you'll have over your destiny. You just have to figure out which are which.

  

  Carleton Young
  • Destiny
  • Influence
  • Figures

• One thing that I'm really interested in is the kind of esoteric detail that surrounds these great figures. And Wikipedia is full of that kind of stuff, whether it's true or untrue. It staggers me: why, in the short space assigned to a person or an event, that kind of random information is there. To be honest, that's wonderful fuel for songwriting.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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