Nick Quotes

We have one of those conversations where every thing clicks, meshes, corresponds, locks, where even our pauses, even our punctuation marks, seem to be nodding in agreement.

I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and grim hours in the office - is to write stuff I find funny.

I feel like having an actual taxidermy-ed mammal would get gross, like its hair would get dirty and stuff.

You know what’s really good is a greyhound in the shower.

There's a fear that I don't think people are interested in my actual opinion. I just think people are interested in me being funny.

You've got a fairly good idea as to what the questions are going to be. But how to record the best answer is another matter.

I learned the word non-conformist in fourth grade and immediately announced that I would grow up to become one.

I’m a bit of a design enthusiast, and like spending time with my girlfriend and mates.

Yahoo to me, as the founder of a company, is one of the biggest opportunities you could have; it's one of those classic Internet companies.

The App Store has democratized the creation of content. As a 12-year-old kid, I was able to put my application on the store. No one knows whos behind the screen so you cant tell Im a 12-year-old.

One thing I'd like to do is angel investing in small companies. That's what's exciting, and if you are lucky to have a bit of money, you can take those risks.

I know for certain that miracles happen, but only for those who hang on to hope.

If you like comedy, go home and curl up with Leviticus. The writers of The Onion are handed Leviticus on their first day.

If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that.

The evidence for man-made global warming is as final as the evidence of Auschwitz.

Winning is very important to me, but at the end of the day, even if I lose, as long as I know I gave it everything I had, there's no shame in that.

I've had to learn and discipline myself that I'm much happier and much less depressed if I give myself a project. It's just that simple.

Sometimes a lack of perspective can bring its challenges relative to someone who has a little bit more.

Apple makes beautiful products. I own a Mac Pro, a Mac Book, a Mac Mini, an iPad, an iPhone, pretty much the entire collection.

I want to be crazy forever, even when I'm 80

Most good media come out of somebody saying, 'This should exist; this is something I want to read.

Personally, as a print journalist, I always found the most interesting stories to be the ones hacks talked about in the bar after work.

Life without limbs? Or life without limits?

I just found this world a hard place to be good in,’ says Bunny, then he closes his eyes and, with an expiration of breath, goes still.

Inspiration is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything. I go into my office every day that I'm in Brighton and work. Whether I feel like it or not is irrelevant.

We believe that the best Web content optimization strategy is something as old as journalism itself: the shocking truth and the authentic opinion.

I am quite strict as a dad but I don't want to be censorious.

Most people have a rope that ties them to someone, and that rope can be short or it can be long. (Be long. Belong. Get it?) You don't know how long, though. It's not your choice.

If I'm hanging around too much, my wife and kids say, 'Hey, why don't you go downstairs and start a new novel?'

Everyone wants to feel that they matter.

It's often the way that people who take their work seriously laugh at stupid jokes; it's as if they are under-humored and, as a consequence, suffer from premature laugh-ejaculation.

Don't write poems to make girls like you, because it will not make them like you but it will give them something to quote back at you later in life.

Our Sheffield and London homes are worth well over a million but the bank owns most of them - we are mortgaged up to the gills.

You see, I needed to go to Hell.

I don't believe in being mean to anyone. I'm a really peaceful person. That's something I get from my family.

I was rapping at eight.

No one wants to spend too long inside their own darkness.

I admit, I am a demon at nintendo.

For me, synchronicity is a way of confirming the rightness of action. It is only in its absence that I realize I'm out of kilter with, for want of a better term, the collective unconscious.

I'm officially disabled, but I'm truly enabled because of my lack of limbs. My unique challenges have opened up unique opportunities to reach so many in need.

I like to give my actors a lot of room.

I don't care what job you get. I care about if you put people down or raise people up.

I think that all of the scars and all of the layers that I've built over the years made me the person that I am today, and I'm pretty happy about that person.

As long as you're having fun and still doing stuff, it doesn't matter what other people think.

I type 40 words per minute on a normal computer with my left foot. And with two cups of coffee, I can do 53 words per minute.

Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing that, but in actuality, it can be a terrifying thing.

Fame is a lot of pressure, especially when you're responsible for your entire family. Financially, emotionally - everything.

Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe.

You don't meet a lot of people that you really like. I don't anyway.

Being embarrassed means that you're human, and we like you better for it