Nucky Thompson Best Quotes & Sayings

Historically, NBCUniversal had brilliant people, but some of them didn't do a very good job of working together. — Steve Burke

And then she began to think about Lady Glencora herself. What a strange, weird nature she was, - with her round blue eyes and wavy hair, looking sometimes like a child and sometimes almost like an old woman! And how she talked! What things she said, and what terrible forebodings she uttered of stranger things that she meant to say! — Anthony Trollope

The soul's smile is better than the heart's grin. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The trophy wife must be in her 20s to earn the title 'trophy wife.' — Marcia Gay Harden

Less flapping, more flying! — Silvia Hartmann

In high school, I always dressed to impress the girls. — Theophilus London

All really nice girls wonder when men don't try to kiss them. They know they shouldn't want them to and they know they must act insulted if they do, but just the same, they wish the men would try. — Margaret Mitchell

I just don't think CGI is up to manipulating the human face yet. I feel like you can get away with it with aliens or monsters or something that's intentionally foreign, but I have yet to see anything digital to do with the human face that doesn't just look ridiculous. — Rian Johnson

The interesting thing about procrastination is that is has more to do with what we fail to do than with what we do. — Nido R. Qubein

Politicians are a lot like diapers. They should be changed frequently, and for the same reasons. — Benjamin Franklin

Halt regarded him. He loved Horace like a younger brother. Even like a second son, after Will. He admired his skill with a sword and his courage in battle. But sometimes, just sometimes, he felt an overwhelming desire to ram the young warrior's head against a convenient tree.
"You have no sense of drama or symbolism, do you?" he asked.
"Huh?" replied Horace, not quite understanding. Halt looked around for a convenient tree. Luckily for Horace, there were none in sight. — John Flanagan

For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK. — Zaha Hadid

But there is always a danger that the priest qualified to seriously direct religious will be overwhelmed by the demand for his services. His first duty, if he wants to be an effective director, is to see to his own interior life and take time for prayer and meditation, since he will never be able to give to others what he does not possess himself. — Thomas Merton

They had none of the modern things that we have today, and yet they turned their world upside down, — David Frost

I'm not entirely sure what a historical novel absolutely has to be, but you don't want a reader who loves a very traditional historical novel to go in with the expectation that this is going to deliver the same kind of reading experience. I think what's contemporary about my book has something to do with how condensed things are. — Danielle Dutton