Harold Nicolson Quotes

To be a good diarist, one must have a little snouty, sneaky mind.

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• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Proud
  • Name

• My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Idea
  • Stand
  • Three

• Being spontaneous is a blessing.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Being
  • Blessing
  • Spontaneous

• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• What really matters is what's on the inside.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Really
  • Inside
  • Matters

• I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Writing
  • Country
  • Truth

• The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • World
  • Country
  • Amazing

• I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Country
  • Think
  • Song

• Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • People
  • You
  • Understand

• Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Bad
  • Beauty
  • Ugly

• Stay true to your own voice, and don't worry about needing to be liked or what anybody else thinks. Keep your eyes on your own paper.

  

  Laura Dern
  • True
  • Eyes
  • Worry

• I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Think
  • Society

• I have always said that I want to finish my career with the Dolphins and this put me closer to that goal. I have been fortunate to break many personal records, but my overiding goal is to win a Super Bowl here in Miami.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Career
  • Goal
  • Win

• My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Mother
  • Fight
  • Nurse

• If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Life
  • Why
  • Forever

• Talking to people from the heart matters, and it's unfortunately something brands have forgotten about. Celebrity endorsement deals try to gain recognition for brands, but at their core, what matters is if the celebrity truly backs the brand.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Heart
  • Celebrity

• My parents were hugely supportive like that. I was always the best - it's so embarrassing, isn't it? I was always the best at everything.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Parents
  • Best
  • Always

• If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Fall
  • Poetry
  • Epic

• The National is the most advanced package of technological wonders yet assembled under one roof.

  

  Jack Kroll
  • National
  • Wonders
  • Roof

• As far as I'm concerned, and this is a big theme of mine, I'm not interested in white people loving me. It's an unrealistic expectation. Black people don't love anybody but themselves.

  

  John McWhorter
  • People
  • Black
  • Expectation

• We're sometimes treated like the stupid cousin, so I'm always drawn to characters that make you feel good about being Welsh.

  

  Matthew Rhys
  • Good
  • Stupid
  • Cousin

• When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War made Japan. And then the Vietnam War made Taiwan. There is some truth to that.

  

  Ang Lee
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!

  

  Emile Zola
  • Good
  • Death
  • Fool

• To be a good diarist, one must have a little snouty, sneaky mind.

  

  Harold Nicolson
  • Good
  • Mind