Nickered Def Quotes & Sayings

I believe the job of the FBI Director is to be as transparent as possible with the American people because we work for them. — James Comey

Other things being equal, it is the person who can lift his work up to the plane of the intuitional and inspiration who achieves greatness, both in his work and in his career. — Stanwood Cobb

When you're on a highway, viewing the western U.S. with the mountains and the flatness and the desert and all that, it's very much like my paintings. — Edward Ruscha

It occurred to me then that a lot of life was either about wanting and not having, or having and not wanting. — Deb Caletti

I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things. — Karl Pilkington

I do get very involved in making a scene work without giving too much thought about how it affects the overall, which I think is hard to know in any case. — Tom Drury

Memory, or rather experience
which is the memory of the event plus the wound it has inflicted on you, plus the change which it has wrought in you and which has made you different
experience is the basic nutrition also for a work of literature (but not only for that), the true source of wealth for every writer (but not only for the writer), and yet the minute it gives shape to a work of literature it withers and dies. The writer, after writing, finds that he is the poorest of men. — Italo Calvino

I went to an empty henhouse [when I was four and a half], hid in the straw at the back, and waited, and the family had no idea where I was... My mother sees this excited little girl rushing toward the house all covered in straw. Instead of getting mad at me, which would've killed the excitement, she saw my shining eyes and sat down to hear this wonderful story of how a hen lays an egg. — Jane Goodall

It comes down to this: either you control money, or it controls you. To control money, you must manage it. — T. Harv Eker

How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss. — Friedrich Nietzsche