Nigel Risner Quotes & Sayings

A creative life has nothing to do with where you're from or how much money you earn. It's merely a reflection of the creative intellect. — Anthony Marais

You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary — Frederick Buechner

I believe my life has value, and I don't want to waste it thinking about clothing ... I don't want to think about what I will wear in the morning. Truly, can you imagine anything more boring than fashion? Professional sports, perhaps. Grown men swatting little balls, while the rest of the world pays money to applaud. But, on the whole, I find fashion even more tedious than sports — Michael Crichton

Yet, when one thinks of it, diplomacy without force is a but a rotten reed to lean upon. — Joseph Conrad

I feel the most connected to my art when it comes from my real life and hopefully the audience feels that. — Nick Jonas

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character from a Chekhov play or a Polanski film. It depends what mood they're in. — David Bailey

None of us, of course, will ever read all the books we'd like, but we can still make a stab at it. — Michael Dirda