David Nicholls Quotes

Well, it's so hard for books to take off. You give years of your life to something that probably won't happen, so when it does, it feels a little... unjust.

David Nicholls

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: November 30, 1966

Topics

LifeYouHardYearsHappenLittle

For a football coach, there's nothing that matches the pain of a team not playing up to its capabilities.

Joe Greene

FootballPainTeamNothingCoachUp

The most profound things are inexpressible.

Jenny Holzer

ProfoundThingsMostInexpressible

This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet a large part of you is entirely subject to its demands.

Meghan O'Rourke

GriefYouComplexityExtremePiece

On every show, there's some amount of work that is brought to some state of completion - or even finished - and then cut out of the movie.

John Knoll

WorkCompletionOutCutShowEven

When I give my jewelry as a present, I feel like I'm giving protection to someone I care about... I've given pieces to my mom, my aunts, my friends. I've even made bracelets for my dad and my uncle.

Sofia Boutella

MomJewelryCarePresentGiving

To the man who reads 'Scouting for Boys' superficially, there is a disappointing lack of religion in the book. But to him who tries it in practice, the basic religion underlying it soon becomes apparent.

Robert Baden-Powell

ManReligionPracticeBookHimSoon

Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.

Robert Browning

GodSucceedBetterAimHighLow

Increasing education options will give students greater opportunities to succeed in the classroom and allow students to graduate with skill sets necessary to go to college or into a career.

Mary Fallin

EducationCollegeSucceedCareerGo

Goals seem impossible only when you are not heading toward them.

Mike Hawkins

GoalsImpossibleYouSeemOnlyThem

When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.

Joseph Wambaugh

PracticeFirstTwoOnionJustField

The toughest thing in hitting shouldn't be deciding when to swing. It is, for me, deciding when not to swing. You should be swinging from the time you get into the batter's box until something says don't swing.

Chili Davis

TimeMeYouSwingBoxSwinging

Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

Christopher Lasch

FamilyWomenRightOwnLeftMost

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