Eric Nicol Quotes

The fashionable Canadian drug habit, instead of cocaine, is to sniff real snow.

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• I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Women
  • Book
  • Creativity

• When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Hope
  • Freedom

• I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Years
  • Old
  • Two

• I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Family
  • Queen
  • Fabulous

• In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • World
  • Art
  • Words

• It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Song
  • You
  • Should

• I didn't just get to 75 years by tiptoeing. I had to work hard sometimes.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Work
  • Sometimes
  • Work Hard

• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Trying
  • Black

• I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Man
  • Judge
  • Sure

• I have a great little camera, and I had a theory that if the story is interesting, it doesn't matter what medium you shoot it on. You just have to make a good film.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Good
  • Great
  • Interesting

• Both for my wife and myself, the personal friendships that have grown out of scientific contacts with colleagues from many different countries have been an important part of our lives, and the travels we have made together in connection with the world-wide scientific co-operation have given us rich treasures of experiences.

  

  Aage Bohr
  • World
  • Different
  • Important

• Privilege tends to soften the brain, or so I’ve observed.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Brain

• Flash Video made platform sites like YouTube possible as well, and helped kick-start the online video revolution.

  

  Burnie Burns
  • Revolution

• I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.

  

  Kristy Swanson
  • Great
  • Movie

• God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

  

  Anna Pavlova
  • Work
  • God

• Our awareness gap and the fuzziness about how people might understand Ulta today is a ripe opportunity for us as we think about going forward. I imagine this is like almost relaunching the brand of Ulta.

  

  Mary Dillon
  • People
  • Today
  • Opportunity

• We have to ask if it is once again the summer of 1914. Small acts of terror in the Middle East, in South Asia, could lead to cataclysm as they did in Sarajevo.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • Small
  • Summer

• You can write a radical Norwegian or a conservative Norwegian. And when I changed to a conservative Norwegian, I gained this distance or objectivity in the language. The gap released something in me, and in the writing, which made it possible for the protagonist to think thoughts I had never myself thought.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Language

• I'm feeling pretty fortunate. I've been having lots of lovely auditions and meetings, so I'm savoring the moment.

  

  Lauren Miller
  • Pretty
  • Feeling

• When President Hassan Rouhani was elected in Iran in 2013, he welcomed back the far-flung children of Iran. But one by one, they have been arrested and imprisoned upon their return, a fate that has made me increasingly reluctant to risk going back to a homeland I've not seen since 1992.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Children
  • Risk
  • Fate

• The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions.

  

  William Osler
  • Looks
  • Patient
  • Doctors

• The fashionable Canadian drug habit, instead of cocaine, is to sniff real snow.

  

  Eric Nicol
  • Real
  • Drug
  • Snow