S Nelson* Quotes

Willow trees are kind, Dear God. They will not bear a body on their limbs.

You own a dog with the knowledge that it will move through the stages of existence in fast forward, providing you with a lesson about your own life passages if you let it.

If I am your leader, you have to listen to me & if you don’t want to listen to me, then drop me as your leader

Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely.

Just because she's leaving, don't start believing, that your rock and roll days are gone.

Like anything else, you can use the Internet for good or ill. You can get out of it what you want to. There's no evil about it. The way I see it, it's a liberation.

I think the best exercise that I do is singing for an hour-and-a-half out on the stage, because, yes, I use the lung, the biggest muscle in your body.

Writing books is fun because after I do a show for a couple hours, I'm in a bus for 22 hours. It's not hard for me to look out the window and tell a joke here and there.

When I was out in the bars drinking and fighting I was a little bit less of a peacemaker than I would be if I'd had a coupla hits of a joint and gone and laid down somewhere.

Anytime the president visits Nebraska its good for Nebraska.

The problem is not software 'friendliness'. It is conceptual clarity. A globe does not say, 'good morning'. It is simple and clear, not 'friendly'.

When it comes to making decisions, I will come down on the side of Nebraska every time. If I have to choose between the White House and the farmhouse, I choose the farmhouse.

The highest and noblest work in this life is that of a mother.

I look at ANWR (Artic National Wildlife Refuge) as a poison pill in the energy bill.

We're still here trying to get the word out that 330 farmers are quitting every week.

I always knew that someday I would once again feel the grass under my feet and walk in the sunshine as a free man.

Telling computer guys that they need to have permission to quote things is like having to tell little children about Death.

I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all.

Quitting is leading too.

Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality.

I've always been more afraid of being left alone or left out than of things that go bump in the night.

Take it upon yourself where you live to make people around you joyful and full of hope.

I see this [biodiesel] as a way for the farmer to grow fuel and food and put him back in business again

Trade justice for the developing world and for this generation is a truly significant way for the developed countries to show commitment to bringing about an end to global poverty.

Winners are different. They're a different breed of cat.

Hope is a powerful weapon, and (one) no one power on earth can deprive you of.

When we read we are able to travel to many places, meet many people and understand the world.

There are more serious problems in life than financial ones, and I’ve had a lot of those. I’ve been broke before, and will be again.

Arnold Palmer has what I call an 'Eisenhower smile'. Those two men, they'd smile and their whole faces would look so pleasant; it was like they were smiling all over.

A lot of my work just sort of flows and comes out of me and I don't know why or where.

You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and in real danger.

There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own backyard. It's a private preserve.

The authorities liked to say that we received a balanced diet; it was indeed balanced - between the unpalatable and the inedible.

Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.

Picasso has been my inspiration, expressing himself in a hundred different ways.

There are few misfortunes in this world that you cannot turn into a personal trimuph if you have the iron will and the neccessary skill.

My youngest son is a writer. He wrote for The District and CSI: NY.

It is time for the next generations to continue our struggle against social injustice and for the rights of humanity. It is in your hands.

I try to use short sentences, short paragraphs and short chapters to keep the reader's interest.

I don't like mysteries, which is why I want to solve them. It bothers me that there are things I don't know.

I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday.

Lawrence Kelter is an exciting new novelist, who reminds me of an early Robert Ludlum.

The process of illusion & disillusionment is part of life and goes on endlessly.

My career doesn't depend on painting Bill Clinton.

I'm drawing in my head pretty much.

I always imagined music trapped inside my clarinet, not trapped inside of me. But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?

Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes part of you, step for step, breath for breath.

Events like this mean we can give something back to the people that support us, and hopefully everyone will have a great day and we can put on a good show for them.

Through F1, I bought my own boat. I learned to fly my own plane and helicopter. And my job with my company is a reflection of everything motor racing taught me.

I like myself better when I'm writing regularly.