Kirstein Nielsen Quotes & Sayings

Now he turned the radio on to the news. As we did our separate chores, we listened and commented idly to each other on what we heard - the politics, the plane crashes and crimes, the large disasters of the day, which we all use to keep the smaller, more long-term sorrows at bay. — Sue Miller

I lived through those books, songs, television shows, and movies - the way the characters talked, looked, acted. I thought that could translate over into reality, that I could make their world my world. I wanted so badly to run away from my life. But you can't bury yourself in other people's pages and scenes. You aren't David Copperfield or Tom Sawyer. Those love songs on the radio might speak to you, but they're not about you or the person you pine for. Life is not a John Hughes film. — Jason Diamond

I can't cut out a piece of cloth and make a lovely dress, but I can mend tears in shirts and sew on buttons. — Joanna Lumley

Seeking of the truth should be not only part of the Justice Department and part of our judicial system, but also should be ... a goal of reporters today. — John Ensign

You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts. — Questlove

I am a verb, not a noun. — Tirza Schaefer

Your mom should be taking care of you. Not the other way around. — Katie McGarry

What is said is not as important as what [you] hear and what [you] feel. — Robert D. Hales

None but God would have ever thought of justifying such a man as Saul the persecutor; but the Lord God is glorious in grace. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Whenever the strength of a belief strongly steps into the foreground, we must infer a certain weakness of demonstrability and the improbability of that belief. — Friedrich Nietzsche