Nick Birch Quotes & Sayings

Only 1 in 13 participants in peace negotiations since 1992 has been a woman. — Zainab Salbi

My dream when I was 14 was someday I could have a David Levine caricature of me in 'The New York Review of Books.' — Chris Hayes

When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies. — Alice Hamilton

When I work, I disappear into work, which I like to do, and sometimes I don't really have a choice. It's not a conscious thing. It's just total devotion to what I'm doing. — Elijah Wood

I read the script just once, and then forget it.I just deal with what I see every day on the screen and whetherI believe it and understand it. — Thelma Schoonmaker

What assignment?" Lucky asked. "If it's training an all-woman SEAL team, then, yes, thank you very much, I'm your man. — Suzanne Brockmann

Every day as Chancellor I see alerts telling me of risks around the world. — George Osborne

I thirsted for the unknown: the thirst is gone. O God, let me stay with the known, and be weary of it: I am content. — George Eliot

You can fall ill with just a memory. — Paolo Giordano

...I was a shattered wreck,--the shadow of a human being. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

To say that a thing is imaginary is not to dispose of it in the realm of mind, for the imagination, or the image making faculty, is a very important part of our mental functioning. An image formed by the imagination is a reality from the point of view of psychology; it is quite true that it has no physical existence, but are we going to limit reality to that which is material? We shall be far out of our reckoning if we do, for mental images are potent things, and although they do not actually exist on the physical plane, they influence it far more than most people suspect. — Dion Fortune

It seemed to be a sort of monster, or symbol representing a monster, of a form which only a diseased fancy could conceive. If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, I shall not be unfaithful to the spirit of the thing. A — H.P. Lovecraft

Most of us become so rigidly fixed in the ruts carved out by genetic programming and social conditioning that we ignore the options of choosing any other course of action. Living exclusively by genetic and social instructions is fine as long as everything goes well. But the moment bioloical or social goals are frustrated- which in the long run is inevitable - a person must formulate new goals, and create a new flow activity for himself, or else he will always waste his energies in inner turmoil. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

I think 'The Lord Of The Rings' is the mother of all cult books, because you can be in that cult and not even know you're in it. — Markus Zusak

It's a crime to be that hot and yet, that evil. — E.C. Newman

What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste? — John Milton