Nick Flynn Quotes

I'd always imagined that one day I would be a father, but mostly it was off my radar. I admired friends who had somehow figured out how to cross that threshold.

Nick Flynn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 26, 1960

Topics

FatherDayFriendsOne DayOutOff

People say I'm tough and too blunt. I'm a product of my organization. MSF is a blunt, tough, no-nonsense organization.

Joanne Liu

PeopleOrganizationToughSayBlunt

It's something you hope doesn't happen. When you sign on to do a job, you hope you'll be able to get it done. But that's not always in your control.

Joe Torre

HopeJobControlYouDoneAlways

There are a lot of Chinese comics, but the Chinese comics tend to be more historical and conservative. Japanese culture, just the comics are amazing. They're like films: very few words; they move so much in these books with hundreds of pages.

Ann Nocenti

CultureWordsAmazingConservative

A criminal pipeline from Cuba to Florida threatens U.S. national security interests with Cuban migrants exploiting U.S. law, stealing from the American taxpayer, and paying the Cuban government to live large off the cash in Cuba.

Jeff Duncan

LiveGovernmentLawAmericanCuba

Now we just showin' and provin' that there's a ghetto everywhere you go.

Method Man

YouGhettoGoNowJustEverywhere

I'm an old man of 73, and I've been around a long time. If I don't know something by now, I probably never will.

John Sununu

TimeManOld ManLongLong TimeNow

I like to get input from all different kinds of listeners, including the really conservative ones, and sometimes those listeners steer me in a direction that I haven't seen. But at the end of the day, my vote is always to go in the direction that makes me the most excited.

Rivers Cuomo

DayMeDirectionEnd Of The DayEnd

I could be imagining it, but I believe myself to have exchanged sly, understanding nods with other people I see attending movies alone on Christmas Day.

Michelle Dean

AloneMyselfDayPeopleBelieveSee

People are hungry for community. They're hungry for meaning in a society that is oriented around the production and consumption of consumer goods.

Mitch Kapor

CommunityPeopleSocietyMeaning

I read a lot of history, and I know that once upon a time, a coin was worth $5 if it had $5 worth of gold in it. Now we have paper that is just backed by fiat... Maybe in the new world, something gets backed by consensus.

Lloyd Blankfein

HistoryTimeGoldWorldWorthKnow

Nudity is no big deal as a German. It's all rather normal and boring.

Juergen Teller

BoringNormalBigDealRather

So if you're on the motorcycle, on the track you're not thinking at all about what's happening next week or tomorrow or anything. You're literally thinking about the turn you're setting up and there's something about that I find very cathartic and meditative.

Dax Shepard

TomorrowMotorcycleThinkingYouUp

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