Nicholson Baker Quotes

Maybe the Kindle was the Bowflex of bookishness: something expensive that, when you commit to it, forces you to do more of whatever it is you think you should be doing more of.

Nicholson Baker

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.

  

  Carl Levin
  • People
  • American
  • Future

• I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.

  

  Felicia Day
  • America
  • History
  • Fact

• Toasting is basically what you call rapping. It came off of playing the beats at the parties, however it be. You find a space in the beat, and you have somebody live just basically saying rhymes over the beat.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Live
  • Space
  • Saying

• Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Confidence
  • Create
  • Greed

• If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Character
  • Job
  • Nice

• I used to be a night owl. I no longer am a night owl.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Night
  • Used
  • Owl

• If the Chinese will not learn the true principles of government, all else will be useless. Knowledge is power, and although a country may be weak, still, if it possess but a modicum of knowledge, the enemy will not be able to completely overthrow it; although that country may be in danger, the race will not be extirpated.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Country
  • May
  • Power

• My childhood was a happy one. I was captain of the school sports team and played cricket after class. I had five younger siblings and a large loving family that lived together. We are still very close.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • School
  • Family
  • Together

• I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Poor
  • Concerned
  • Oppression

• I think if I wasn't in very high level, I never will be in the team. Cause I was high, in very high level.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • High
  • Think
  • Team

• I'm interested in how we react when we're heavily pressed. When we're vulnerable and our survival is in question, how do we behave?

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Question
  • Survival
  • How

• Actually, I don't like dogs. I'm from Morocco, and people there don't like animals.

  

  Gad Elmaleh
  • People
  • Animals
  • Dogs

• Most people go to ashrams or retreats to destress and rejuvenate themselves. But I come back to my roots, the place where I spent half my life. And when I return, I spend time in the farms, eating a stalk of sugarcane, driving a tractor, and chilling with childhood friends.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I actually think the subject of young divorce is pretty funny; I'd like to write a movie about it.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Pretty

• I read Spider-Man, and that's how I knew about Wilson Fisk.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Read
  • Knew
  • Spider-Man

• I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • United States
  • Saying
  • I Can

• Unlike a well-defined, precise game like Russian roulette, where the risks are visible to anyone capable of multiplying and dividing by six, one does not observe the barrel of reality.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Game
  • Reality

• You must take it; I cannot live with anything in my possession that is not mine.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Live

• I am grateful that my one talent, flying, was useful to my country.

  

  Cornelia Fort
  • Country
  • Talent
  • Flying

• When scandal has new-minted an old lie, Or tax'd invention for a fresh supply, 'Tis call'd a satire, and the world appears Gathering around it with erected ears; A thousand names are toss'd into the crowd, Some whisper'd softly, and some twang'd aloud, Just as the sapience of an author's brain, Suggests it safe or dangerous to be plain.

  

  William Cowper
  • World
  • Brain
  • Lying

• It is better to obey the mysterious direction, without any fuss, when it points to a new road, however strange that road may be. There is probably as much reason for it, if the truth were known, as for anything else.

  

  Henry Major Tomlinson
  • May
  • Truth
  • Road

• I did a 'Love Boat!' And based on my trip on the 'Love Boat,' I said, 'I'd just as soon not do 'Fantasy Island.''

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Love Boat
  • Fantasy Island

• Maybe the Kindle was the Bowflex of bookishness: something expensive that, when you commit to it, forces you to do more of whatever it is you think you should be doing more of.

  

  Nicholson Baker