Ben Nicholson Quotes

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• I like the fact that Austin's the first place I've ever lived where there's a real sense of community. People care about their neighbors.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • People
  • Real
  • Community

• But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Fun
  • Know
  • Said

• This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • Creative
  • Opportunities

• I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Why
  • Think
  • Road

• When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Men
  • Free
  • Speak

• A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Good
  • Policy
  • Temporary

• I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.

  

  Cai Guo-Qiang
  • Child
  • Brave
  • Coward

• But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Play
  • Impossible
  • September

• Design can successfully bind the ancient nomadic cultures with today's global marketplace, ensuring the preservation of traditions and knowledge for further generations. This aspect of research is obviously rich in its business potential as well.

  

  Yelena Baturina
  • Business
  • Today
  • Knowledge

• Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • She
  • Look
  • Creation

• The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.

  

  Ralph Hodgson
  • May
  • Wall
  • Handwriting

• 'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Sleep
  • Study
  • Curiosity

• People tend to treat people with disabilities sort of like they're aliens from another planet. It doesn't come from a bad place; it comes from a place of, 'I have no idea what this disability entails, and I don't want to offend anyone or make them feel awful.'

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Bad
  • Want

• Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Just
  • News
  • Boring

• The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life, without a dream?

  

  Edmond Rostand
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Alone

• The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Up
  • Constitution
  • Physics

• The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • Book
  • Service

• I feel that whoever isn't feeling settled in their career won't think about their marriage.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Think
  • Career
  • Feeling

• She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Mind
  • Eye
  • Intense

• The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the Memory, and Names got to them.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Mind
  • Ideas
  • Memory

• The period from 2002 to 2007 was probably our best period. We created a strategy to build global scale, footprints in each of the geographies and dramatically built our international business.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Business
  • Best
  • Period

• After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • World
  • War
  • Government

• I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.

  

  Ben Nicholson
  • Ideas
  • Interested
  • Means