Nickenson Quotes & Sayings

When you're connected to the ocean, you really don't think about what's going on with your email or texts or any of that. You're just a lot more liberated. — Leven Rambin

Success will require the studied lack of sophistication of a Ronald Reagan and the casual dishonesty of an FDR. The president must appear to be not very bright yet be able to lie convincingly. — George Friedman

You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot. — David Levithan

We're all gifted with the opportunity to succeed. But you get further if you extend the hand of friendship. — Jimmy Little

An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page. — Brandon Mull

It is a good face. I am glad this war is over at last. — Abraham Lincoln

Being an authority on paper does not immediately grant you authority over a group until it is earned by you and given by them. — A.J. Darkholme

I've always gone after fears and tried to stifle them by doing them. It is daunting, but it's more rewarding. — Lily Cole

I may not have money, but I am not poor. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life
a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real. — Thomas Bernhard

I believe in the flesh and the appetites;
Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touch'd from;
The scent of these arm-pits, aroma finer than prayer;
This head more than churches, bibles, and all the creeds. — Walt Whitman

I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top. — Harrison Ford

You should leave off sniffing the carcass of your old life, my brother. You may enjoy unending pain. I do not. There is no shame in walking away from bones, Changer. He finally swiveled his head to stare at me from his deep-set eyes. Nor is there any special wisdom in injuring oneself over and over. What is your loyalty to that pain? To abandon it will not lessen you."

"p. 94 Nighteyes to Fitz — Robin Hobb

Every character I play is straight, which is unique, my agent says, because it's not really been done before that someone who is completely out is able to play straight roles. — Russell Tovey

And priests dare babble of a God of peace,
Even whilst their hands are red with guiltless blood,
Murdering the while, uprooting every germ
Of truth, exterminating, spoiling all,
Making the earth a slaughter - house! — Percy Bysshe Shelley