Nick Quotes

Potentially, anyone writing on the Web can reach a global audience. In practice, hardly anyone ever does.

No one is too old for fairy tales.

I know nothing of the secrets of death, Harry, for I chose my feeble imitation of life instead.

Our terminal decline into old age and death stems from the fine print of the contract that we signed with our mitochondria two billion years ago.

A hero is merely a man never afraid of being called to heaven because he is certain he has done his duty, Nicholas." -Admiral Lord Nelson (fictional)

people change and promises are broken

When people ask me if I have any spare change I tell them I have it at home in my spare wallet.

The breakfast of champions is not cereal it's the opposition.

It’s the way I walk through the world, carrying that fear, that the beloved will go, will die, and that I will be the one to blame.

I reckon you have to put a presence in front of your opponent - a bit of confidence and attitude - and then you can change what their next move may be.

A degree of self-awareness is extremely valuable... I hope I have that going forward.

It's great to see our players get some of their dreams come true.

We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.

I guess I'm motivated by the fear of failure to some degree and knowing what can happen when you don't do things the way you need to do them to have success.

I wish I was a cool guy and could drink coffee black, but I put almond milk and raw cane sugar in it.

He's got everything. He' not a great player yet because he hasn't won any major championships, but it's a matter of time. He's an outstanding talent. I didn't realize how tall he is.

Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence.

I'm actually pretty good with computers. I use computers when I'm working on making and producing music, so I do know a thing or two!

I won't share everything, both in my act or in interviews. Some of the people who become the most famous are the most self-revelatory, and I'm like, 'No, it's just not worth it to me.'

My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.

If you're a coach, you're a teacher.

The universe works in crazy ways. Your good luck will come in waves, and so does your bad, so you have to take the good with the bad and press forward.

I think one of the most important things in a relationship is caring for your significant other through good times and bad.

Executive power in any nation arguably has more in common with executive power in another country than with the citizens it should serve.

Economics is mostly how humans rationalize who gets what and why. It's how we instantiate our preferences about status, privileges, and power.

It sounds funny, but my biggest fear is that I'm not perfect. I'm a perfectionist, and I get upset when things go wrong or when I don't do well.

I made a resolution in 2010 to stop drinking Diet Coke, and I haven't had Diet Coke since then. I think it was the best life change I've ever made, because I drank quite a lot of it.

I don't plan on going back to legal work. I wanted an international career, and finance seemed to be where some interesting career opportunities were.

I grew up on the Roger Moore and Sean Connery Bond movies, so the DNA of my spies is extremely ridiculous and goofy.

We are bodies which think, and we're at home with steampunk because it is an ethos of design and creativity which acknowledges the humanly physical: that which we can understand with our fingers.

Amazon is a corporation, not a philanthropic trust dedicated to the production of works of art and literature.

Being funny has always mattered a lot to me. It's why I started acting - to make my friends laugh.

Living in a small town, one of the keys to survival was your imagination.

I find Spike Jones' movies to be really very inventive and funny, but they're really sad and touching and really key into the different facets of the human experience.

My wife goes to Birmingham five times a week. My mom lives in Birmingham now after moving from Myrtle Beach. It's not just the job. A lot of people don't get that. My life is here.

I think that dating other musicians can be complicated at times. Especially when they think highly of themselves.

I was brought up in a car family, my dad loved cars and I was taught the art of making an Austin 7 operate.

If you talk to most ambitious people, people who are high achievers, they're rarely at peace with what they're doing because they need an engine to keep moving.

I am a hopeless romantic, and so is my wife.

Comedy can't be done in a vacuum, and you can't do it on your own. So if you have a community of people, it's a great symbiotic relationship.