Nik Halik (Nikos Halikopoulos) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
-
The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
-
Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.
-
I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.
-
Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.
-
I think you can overthink dealing with fame. To an extent, you've got to put yourself out there, but I feel like your work should really speak for itself, and I don't feel the need to go and make everyone like me because, to be honest, I'm not looking to be friends with the world. I'd much rather people watch the things that I'm in.
-
When you're governor, you've got to step up to the plate; you've got to make a proposal for a balanced budget. That's the requirement. And then you've got to sit down and negotiate if the folks that you need to work with disagree with you on points.
-
We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.
-
If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.
-
When I meet people after stand-up shows, they'll bring their cars.
-
When you're young, you don't have much sense. You don't have any reasoning power. You don't have any ability to take a blow, an insult, a hurt in the right way. There is no way a child can do that. All a child can do is feel the pang of it, the heartache of it.
-
Generally speaking, the Smritikars never care to explain the why and the how of their dogmas.
-
I think that I come off as, 'Nothing bothers me, I don't care! I'm funny and sassy.' But I'm deeply sensitive. Not only about myself but to others. Not to pat myself on the back, empathy is a quality I've cultivated over my life. It came naturally to me as a child.
-
She waits for me; my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs;I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her by surprise.
-
Yes, but I don't think of the Teen Angel as of an age.
-
I've never understood people who treat their loved ones worse and with less respect than they would a total stranger or minor acquaintance.
-
The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.
-
Horses are the brand value of 'Wertheimer Freres.'
-
On the other track I got to talk with Jon Poll, my editor, and we go into more detail about the decisions we made in both the production and the post-production. So I hope the combination becomes something worth collecting.
-
The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation, its peace.
-
I like to experiment a lot and invent things.
-
The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went.
-
The theme of the dance was "Great Romances," or some such nonsense. There were projections of supposedly great couples from the past on the walls of the gym. Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Hermione and Ron, Bonnie and Clyde, etc.
-
Dare to dream, live with passion. Make your life an epic extraordinary adventure!
