Nick Quotes

As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other.

We don't defeat evil by becoming evil.

Our actions in the Middle East over the last 15 years have already guaranteed radical Muslims quite enough ammunition to kill Americans for the next century, even if Guantanamo did not exist.

It is statesmanlike for the administration and Congress to look to our nation's welfare beyond their terms in office.

In matters large and small, many people seemed concerned about churlishness, an ugliness in our relationships that appears to be increasing rather than decreasing.

In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals.

For some reason, on that sparkling afternoon last week, I actually saw the coal that was passing by and it set me to thinking how important coal was to our everyday lives when I was a little boy.

The Labour Party has become consumed by collective bile towards... the Liberal Democrats. That portrays a rather nasty arrogance.

Mr. Speaker, in seeking to return to the United Nations, the Republic of China on Taiwan will once again ask diplomatic allies to present its case before the United Nations this fall.

Despite what people might think, I'm not interested in being dark all the time. I'm actually searching for some kind of light, and I'm always very happy when I can achieve that.

I don't care if you are a good mathematician, or a good athletic, or not good at anything- that you think. But I'm gonna come and tell you that you're awesome the way you are.

This life is full of great experiences if we only give it a shot.

These days, rock 'n' roll is much more about rock than about roll. I don't do rock. But I'm interested in that roll part, because that's the funny little bit that makes it hip.

The victory is when I realize that I can't do it on my own.

Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine.

I suppose I was waiting until I was old enough to have some sort of experience to sing about. When you're young, it's hard to sing the blues. Nobody believes you.

I don't believe in an interventionist God

Your son and your daughter needs an excellent father more than an excellent college.

As long as my body holds out, I'll be grooving when I'm 70, and not some sort of horrible spectacle.

I really forget that I have no arms or legs sometimes.

None of the things I have done would have been accomplished without a true team effort.

Oh, a passing, skeptical kind of interest. I'm a hammer-and-nails kind of guy.

With 1.7 million private sector jobs lost and half a million jobs shipped overseas over the past three years, we must take action to spur job creation and restore economic prosperity.

I always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so.

If you have the desire and passion to do something, and it's within God's will, you will achieve it.

Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.

Sorrow's child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.

I'm very lucky. I am one of those people who is able to go home, shut the front door and completely focus on the kids.

There's a lot of reflection that goes on whenever I write a song - it's been a wild whirlwind last couple of years and there's a lot to talk about, and hopefully that's evident in the music.

Self-pity is an ignoble emotion, but we all feel it, and the orthodox critical line that it represents some kind of artistic flaw is dubious, a form of emotional correctness.

I don't lead a particularly Bohemian existence. The main criterion for me is not to be judgemental of other people so long as what they do is not harmful or offensive to others.

The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.

You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan.

As an artist, where do you conjure these concepts? They come through you instead of through cognitive thought.

Stars have their moments then they die.

At school I was an anti-magnet for women.

I just want to leave this world with a massive catalog of songs.

We are keen to stress that a strong euro zone is good for a strong United Kingdom. It's not for us to write the changes that the euro zone needs to embark on.

I don't watch a huge amount of telly. I read a lot. I'm reading at the moment 'Freedom,' by Jonathan Franzen, a great big brick of a book, and I'm loving it.

I firmly believe that the principles behind Contraction & Convergence provide the best long-term framework for a fair and equitable climate change mitigation policy

I have to be able to pull you in. How can I diversify my audiences? What role do I have to play to be part of that shift? I have to take that seriously.

Taking care of yourself is a nice thing to do. It's not seen as just a girl thing anymore. You see a lot more guys at the gym taking care of themselves, and I think it's going to continue to grow.

Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It's a reduction of things.

Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people think it's unacceptable for someone to attempt to jump from the bottom to the top of the pyramid.

To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It's exhausting.

I don't think there's any law where you have to read a poem and immediately understand it.

The rock star is dying. And it's a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for that kind of rock star.

I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.

I love performing. I can get to be that person I always wanted to be - godlike.

I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.