Nicholson Baker Quotes

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Nicholson Baker

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• My parents never understood why I didn't want to be a doctor or lawyer. They're Cuban immigrants who wanted to give their children the American dream, and, to them, that was more of what 'the dream' entailed.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Children
  • Why
  • American

• Beauty is not just a white girl. It's so many different flavors and shades.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Different
  • Girl
  • Beauty

• It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Fool
  • More
  • Take

• Raw fish suppers admittedly require a little planning, not least in the acquisition of the main ingredient.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Planning
  • Little
  • Fish

• You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Long
  • Live
  • Yourself

• With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.

  

  Aaron Ashmore
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Popular

• Let's have some new cliches.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Funny
  • New
  • Some

• When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Truth
  • Hand
  • Yourself

• Often women are pitted against each other for an easy joke, so they fight or steal each other's boyfriends. That's not really true to life.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Life
  • Women
  • True

• I have a controversial opinion about evil, because I don't believe evil exists. I believe that actions are dark and destructive but I don't believe evil is a thing. I believe it's a by-product of man's fear and desperation.

  

  Victor Salva
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Fear

• The majority of the economic oscillations which we encounter seem to be explained most plausibly as free oscillations.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Free

• When God comes A great noise will pierce us, The day of judgment terribly. Messengers from the door, Wind, and sea, and fire. lightning and thunder A number without flattery. The people of the world groaning Will be concealed.

  

  Taliesin
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• In the lost battle,Borne down by the flying,Where mingles war's rattleWith groans of the dying.

  

  Walter Scott
  • War
  • Lost
  • Dying

• I agreed the situation was sticky. Indeed, offhand it was difficult to see how it could have been more glutinous.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To flutter - and the Bird is on the Wing.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Time
  • Fire
  • Spring

• Touring we thought was a waste of time. It was much more productive and much more creative to write and record. I am glad today that we didn't tour. We knew it begins and ends with a song. Back then the entire business revolved around the song.

  

  Björn Ulvaeus ABBA
  • Time
  • Business
  • Today

• Oh, for the sake of momentumI've allowed my fears to get larger than life.And it's brought me to my current agendumWhereupon I deny fulfillment has yet to arrive.And I know life is getting shorter,I can't bring myself to set the scene.Even when it's approaching torture,I've got my routine.

  

  Aimee Mann
  • Life

• In my ideal world, my next novel would have a first printing of, say, 2,500 hardcovers for reviewers, libraries, collectors, and autograph hounds. The publisher could print more copies if they get low. And simultaneously, or six weeks later, the book would be available in paperback.

  

  Christina Baker Kline
  • World
  • Book

• I'm proud that LearnVest is creating content that helps expectant moms tackle their finances. As much as possible, we hope to lessen the stress during what is said to be such a life-changing time.

  

  Alexa Von Tobel
  • Life
  • Time
  • Hope

• The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • Men

• I have always been really troubled by the amount of poverty in America. Americans are matched in their rich democracy with the depth and expanse of poverty. That's really always unsettled me.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • America
  • Democracy
  • Poverty

• To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them.

  

  John Burdett
  • Mind

• Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism.

  

  Nicholson Baker