Nick Cummins Quotes & Sayings

What a gift it was to be normal! We're all walking on these unseen tightropes when really we could slip at any second and come face to face with all the existential horrors that only lie dormant in our minds. — Matt Haig

So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice. — Lord Byron

Fame is an elastic concept, especially in a place like this, where we all know the smell of each other's armpits. - 'The Mupondawana Dancing Champion — Petina Gappah

Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work. — Rudyard Kipling

Cause you know that its a fool, who plays it cool, by making his world a little colder ...
- The Beatles — The Beatles

The first principle of contract negotiations is don't remind them of what you did in the past - tell them what you're going to do in the future. — Stan Musial

A man so hurt and so perplexed may turn in anger, even on people he loves. — John Steinbeck

How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question. — Ted Danson

Of the future, man knows least; yet, about this, he worries most. — Ivan Panin

I never look at my watch if I'm talking with someone. I think that's such an insulting gesture! It suggests you're trying to gauge whether you think what they're saying is worth your time. Rushing is no way to bring out what's best in people, and I'm always looking for the best. That's what's ultimately behind my determination to take my time. — Frances Hesselbein

The sound of a mother's voice expresses a feeling of intimacy, which has a truly magical effect on the listener. — Montserrat Caballe

As children, we had access to all the open space imaginable. We would set up camps in rural Utah where the Tempest Company was at work laying pipe. We spent time around the West in Wyoming, Idaho, Nevada, and Colorado. Wild beautiful places. Now, many of these natural places have disappeared under the press of development. — Terry Tempest Williams

There are times when it is conservative to be a revolutionary, when the world must be turned on its head in order to be stood on its feet. — Christopher Hitchens

Finite games can be played within an infinite game, but an infinite game cannot be played within a finite game. — James P. Carse