Lesley Nicol Quotes

I took a cookery course. On the examination, I had to cook a cheese omelet with peas and an egg custard. With the egg custard, which was supposed to be a dessert, I forget to put the sugar in, so that's more of a quiche, isn't it?

Lesley Nicol

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• There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Life
  • World
  • Gifts

• I like Noah from 'The Notebook.' One - hundred percent. I fall in love with him so hard.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Fall
  • Like
  • Hard

• Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• My first year of college was tough. I thought that just being an athlete I could get by. I thought I was okay until I got kicked out, which happened twice.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • College
  • Thought
  • Athlete

• Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Soul
  • Control
  • Failure

• Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Respect
  • Regret
  • Greatest

• For me, it's all about smaller character-driven pieces, about finding a person that I connect with and that I'm interested in bringing to life.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Life
  • Character
  • Me

• I enjoyed L.A. because it was nice to be in the sunshine and live in a house with proper wardrobes. I loved the space.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Live
  • House
  • Nice

• I'm happy to sparkle like a glazed disco ball.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Happy
  • Sparkle
  • Disco

• Sports have always been a really important part of how I energize myself, as well as how I relax. I spend a lot of my spare time with my family playing tennis, biking and rollerblading.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Time
  • Important
  • Family

• I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Work
  • Ideas
  • Fast

• One of the hardest things we must sometimes do is to be present to another person's pain without trying to fix it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person’s mystery and misery.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Trying
  • Pain
  • Present

• And I have no desire to get ugly,But I cannot help mentioning that the door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Mind
  • Help
  • Desire

• 'Still feeling guilty, are we? I’d have thought you’d be over that by now.''I have a nettlesome little thing called a conscience,' Emily hissed. 'Ever hear of it?''They’re out of fashion in New York,' Stanton said, and though she guessed she was joking, he didn’t sound humorous.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • She
  • Feeling
  • Fashion

• Our system presumes that there are certain principles that are more important than the temper of the times. And you must have a judge who is detached, who is independent, who is fair, who is committed only to those principles, and not public pressures of other sort.

  

  Anthony Kennedy
  • Important
  • Independent
  • Judge

• That boy of 17 who shot himself in my house really ended it for us. And although we occasionally saw each other for the sake of the children, it was the end of our personal relationship.

  

  Anita Pallenberg
  • Children
  • House
  • Relationship

• African American women, and moms in particular, are evicted at disproportionately high rates.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Women
  • American
  • High

• I'm pretty critical of myself as far as reaching some sort of perfect bull's-eye or target that I'm aiming for.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Pretty
  • Perfect

• I usually do films, and you do two months and then forget about it.

  

  Max Riemelt

• If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Remember
  • Law
  • Fall

• When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there.

  

  Paul Theroux

• I took a cookery course. On the examination, I had to cook a cheese omelet with peas and an egg custard. With the egg custard, which was supposed to be a dessert, I forget to put the sugar in, so that's more of a quiche, isn't it?

  

  Lesley Nicol