Nick Quotes

Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China.

The older you get, the more you live with ghosts.

On the road and traveling - that's when people are at their most creative.

We're really all alone. We can't ever get inside another person's spirit, and see the world they do. So we are alone in that sense. The only way we have to communicate feelings is through words.

The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted.

Don't GIVE UP. And know that there is always someone out there who believes in you and who loves you JUST THE WAY THAT YOU ARE.

Style has always been very important to us. We grew up in the '70s. Music was glam rock, punk rock and a very stylish movement.

We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable.

So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued.

It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.

Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.

Raising the minimum wage allows business people to stop thinking about workers simply as costs to be cut and allows you to start thinking about workers as customers to be cultivated.

Emotions are charismatic. Focused emotions are very charismatic. To lead people with charisma, you need to take charge of and focus your emotions.

Thankfully I have a fan base that wants to see me, so I really enjoy creating music that is different.

The ocean does something to me that is unexplainable. Just being out there and realizing im alive.

The day you think you have reached your fullest potential is the day that you havn't.

I have a passion for life that allows me to make the most of my days and fill them with work and play.

The difference nowadays is that when I go on vacation I work some of the time rather than all of the time.

Having children obviously changes your priorities, but when you start to see life through these innocent eyes and seeing everything for the first time, you appreciate the small things.

You can't even stand without risking to fall.

I abhor television. Notice how i said ‘television’ and not ‘TV’ because TV is a nickname and nicknames are for friends and television is no friend of mine.

He'd told her it was just a scratch and got cross when she hadn't offered morphine.

Don't give up on God, because God will not give up on you.

Everything has a purpose, even this, and it's up to you to find it.

I like an otter. I like a sea lion. I like a walrus. That's my favorite version of a sea creature.

A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.

I just want to keep pushing things and growing, and we'll see what happens.

Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated.

Contrary to widespread belief, I do know something about science.

And see she flies, and she is everywhere.

LIFE is WORTH LIVING when you find PURPOSE.

I know for certain that God does not make mistakes, but he does make miracles. I am one. You are, too.

I awaken. I consume oxygen, then bacon, eggs and black coffee, then my wife, then bacon.

I can see that now. I can see everything once it’s already happened — I’m very good at the past. It’s the present I can’t understand.

If you can't get a miracle, become one.

I was 16 years old, driving to LA, and sleeping in my car, just trying to make it happen.

I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do is draw a portrait of the person you love.

Do I get up every morning and ask: am I doing the things that I believe in and am I doing them for the best possible motives? Yes. Unambiguously yes.

I try to make myself look as normal as possible because I like people to relate to me.

I was never crippled until I lost hope.

Accessible local libraries are vital to communities and to children.

... God gave you just one mouth but He gave you two ears, so you should listen twice as much as you speak

I'm not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the feminist movement.

It's taken me a lot of years to peel away my own layers.

Just stand up for your principals and be loyal to your friends and family.

You see people literally in a different galaxy who are paying extraordinarily low rates of tax.

What we should be doing in the EU as a whole is more economic integration in the single market, rather than less.

I can sell anything that I totally believe in but I’m a horrible salesman of something I don’t believe in

Those who actually hate animals to the point of being cruel to them are outcasts to the rest of us, no matter where in the world they live.

I kind of consider myself a chameleon in music. I love all sorts of music.