Nick Bantock Quotes

Her mother is asking her a question and she is forced to resurface from the sanctuary of daydream. ~ Nick Bantock

Sometimes willpower alone cannot make things happen. ~ Nick Bantock

I never loved anyone else and never desired to. She was my companion, my lover, and my teacher. ~ Nick Bantock

You have told me your history, but speak little fo teh present. Why's that - Sabine Strohem ~ Nick Bantock

Every one of us sees 'green' differently. So everything is an approximation of understanding. ~ Nick Bantock

Art is like therapy; what comes up is what comes up. It may be dark, but that's what comes up. You may want to keep some of it in a drawer but never judge it. ~ Nick Bantock

One minute I was completely unknown, barely able to feed my family, living on pennies. The next minute, Katie Couric was interviewing me on the breakfast show. ~ Nick Bantock

She demanded, "Give up your life of idolatry and become a doctor."
I declined. "I have my geraniums to look after. ~ Nick Bantock

Move fluidly by earth of water and stop to listen to the wind as it whispers your whereabouts. . . Savour the path and enjoy the sun. ~ Nick Bantock

One of the key pleasures of receiving a letter is the act of holding and entering the envelope - a sort of cross between Christmas and sex. ~ Nick Bantock

I had never read in public, never given an interview. I was doing it all and trying to produce the next book and raise three young kids and had another child on the way. ~ Nick Bantock

I've started to hate this city, this country, all these STUPID FUCKING PEOPLE. ~ Nick Bantock

The telephone is a great knee-jerk machine, but if you really want to tell someone how you feel, you need the slowness of the letter. In a society where everything is fast, it's like going out in the country and looking up at the stars. ~ Nick Bantock

Sensual images of you are forever tangoing through my brain
maybe I can begin solidify them. At least they would be mine! - Matthew Sedon ~ Nick Bantock

For me, synchronicity is a way of confirming the rightness of action. It is only in its absence that I realize I'm out of kilter with, for want of a better term, the collective unconscious. ~ Nick Bantock

I don't think I am scared of intimacy, but I am frightened of making a mistake. offering more than I have, or expecting more than you can give. - Matt Sedon ~ Nick Bantock

As dad would always say, when in doubt- play for time. ~ Nick Bantock

I have no idea of what it's going to look like when I start a piece. Making art is like having a relationship. You want to bring in some ideas, but if you don't allow it to develop naturally and speak to you as it develops, you end up imposing and projecting upon it. ~ Nick Bantock

It is pointless to be any less than all you can be. ~ Nick Bantock

In the caves of my heart, where pain taps out its rhythms and sorrow sets its loss, i am without direction. ~ Nick Bantock

Do you see that I cherish you beyond question, that you have nothing to prove to me? You are making your journey to secure yourself. I am already tethered to your side. if you can love yourself as I love you there will be no dislocation
you will be whole. Bring yourself home to me and I will immerse you in very ounce of tenderness I possess. - Sabine Strohem ~ Nick Bantock

(I'm trying to improve my typing. notice I now leave a space after a comma, I'm very proud of myself!) ~ Nick Bantock

Our old experiences, memories and fears guide us down the present path. It's not so much that you are the artist; you are the conduit. ~ Nick Bantock

I do what I want to do. I see where my enthusiasm is. Over the years, my techniques expanded. That's how the writing came out. ~ Nick Bantock

The threads of circumstance that lead to tomorrow are so tenuous that all the fussing and worrying about decisions is futile compared to the pure randomness of existence. ~ Nick Bantock

An idea or an insight doesn't come from a single happening, it requires a meeting to alter a perspective. Often it takes a while for the events to collide, but when they do it is inevitable that a change will follow. ~ Nick Bantock

It's not always easy to keep going when faced with indifference or to watch values being defined by a mass infatuation with mediocrity. ~ Nick Bantock

I have loved you in every manner that my imagination could contrive. I have wanted you so deeply that my body sang with pain and pleasure. You have been my obsession, my passion, my philosophers' stone of fantasy. You are my desire, my longing, my spirit. I love you unconditionally. - Sabine Strohem ~ Nick Bantock

Growing up in England, people told you why you couldn't do things. Suddenly, I had a publisher banging on my door, and was given the creative green light to simply make. ~ Nick Bantock

I like it that my career has all the predictability and continuity of a children's nonsense rhyme. ~ Nick Bantock

Now that you're there and have been all along, I feel whole again. - Griffin Moss ~ Nick Bantock

To be compared to Will Smith is probably one of the coolest things because that's who I came up admiring. ~ Nick Cannon

Ninjas are silly. They are the flower fairies of gong fu and karate. ~ Nick Harkaway

I doubt there is even a word in Afghani for peace. Nearest to it is probably a phrase that translates as "just getting my break back and reloading ~ Nick Revell

Yeah, it's me, but I like to think I looked better when we met. 'Cause right now, I'm pretty much hogging all the ugly. (Nick) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

You're fucked. You thought you were going to be someone, but now it's obvious you're nobody. You haven't got as much talent as you thought you had, and there was no Plan B, and you got no skills and no education, and now you're looking at forty or fifty years of nothing. Less than nothing, probably. That's pretty heavy. That's worse than having the brain thing, because what you got now will take a lot longer to kill you. You've got the choice of a slow, painful death, or a quick, merciful one. ~ Nick Hornby

Many fathers are gone. Some leave, some are left. Some return, unknown and hungry. Only the dog remembers. ~ Nick Flynn

I am a rationalist, and I don't believe in genies, or sudden personality changes. I wanted David's anger to vanish only after years and years in therapy. ~ Nick Hornby

If I don't shut down my brain soon, my imagination will take off so far about what could be with this guy, that nothing will ever just be.-- Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist ~ Rachel Cohn

It is known, among coppers and criminals alike, that society can be policed only because it consents. When the burden of law or government is too great, or too oppressive, or when economic need or famine breaks the normal course of life, there simply are not – can never be – enough coppers to hold the line. ~ Nick Harkaway

Maybe he wants you to be his queen," Devyn saids. "Continue the line."
"That's crap," Nick says.
"Yeah." I glare at him. "Why would anyone want me to be their queen?"
"That's not what I meant." The front legs of Nick's chair slam back down. ~ Carrie Jones

I'm still pretty sick about what I've lost, but I only admit it to myself late at night, which is probably why I'm not the best sleeper. ~ Nick Hornby

My best advice for finding inner happiness is to reach outside yourself, to use your talents and brains and personality to make life better for someone else. ~ Nick Vujicic

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

Just because you have the resources today doesn't mean the timing is right. No doubt, ambition and energy have led to the creation of many great businesses and careers, but timing is critical. ~ Nick Vujicic

We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all. Because the worth of the idea never becomes apparent until you do it. Sometimes this idea can be the smallest thing in the world, a little flame that you hunch over and cup with your hand, and pray will not be extinguished by all the storm that howls about it. If you could hold onto that flame, great things could construct around it, that are massive and powerful and world changing, all held up by the tiniest of ideas. ~ Nick Cave

Max walked back to Beeson, sidestepping a slalom path of dog turds leading into the kitchen. He'd narrowly missed standing in a tepee of turds that looked too deliberately arranged to be natural. ~ Nick Stone

The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don't always do, because sometimes I just can't, for various reasons that seem out of my control. ~ Nick Flynn

Mariah's fashion game is definitely on a different level than mine. She actually knows Roberto Cavalli and Dolce & Gabbana. I didn't know those people actually existed; I thought they were just names. ~ Nick Cannon

People are all the fun in life - Candido's Apocalypse ~ Nick Joaquin

We have all lived through that shriveling moment when a parent walks into a room and repeats, with sardonic disbelief, a couplet picked up from the stereo or the TV. 'What does that mean, then?' my mother asked me during Top of the Pops. "Get it on / Bang a gong"? How long did it take him to think of that, do you reckon?' And the correct answer - 'Two seconds, and it doesn't matter' - is always beyond you, so you just tell her to shut up, while inside you're hating Marc Bolan for making you like him even though he sings about getting it on and banging gongs. ~ Nick Hornby

Who doesn't want to just disappear, at some point in the day, in a year, to just step off the map and float? ~ Nick Flynn

Nick tugged her head back, his tormented gaze raking over her face. His trembling fingertips traced the line of her cheek and jaw. "My God. Lottie…" As his panicked exploration continued, he discovered the bruises on her throat, and he uttered a cry of fury. "Holy hell! Your neck. He dared to… I'm going to slaughter that bastard - "
Lottie placed her fingers over his mouth. "I'm all right," she said gently. Feeling the way his large body shook, she drew her hand over his chest in a calming stroke. After the traumatic events of the past hours, it was so wonderful to be with him that her lips curved in a wobbly smile. She gazed into his dusty, sweat-streaked face with concern. "In fact, I believe I may be in better condition than you, my darling."
A primitive groan came from his throat, and he clutched her with his right arm, bending over her hungrily. "I love you," he said in a low, shaken voice. "I love you so much, Lottie." His lips covered hers in a fiercely ardent kiss.
Clearly he was too unsettled to recall that there were others in the room. Lottie turned her face away with a muffled laugh. "I love you, too," she whispered. "Not here, darling. Later, with more privacy, we can - " She was silenced as Nick seized her mouth once more. Suddenly she found herself pushed up against the wall by six feet of aroused, overwrought male. Realizing that there was no hope of subduing him, Lottie stroked his broad back in an effort to soothe him. He possessed her with ~ Lisa Kleypas

Whatever it is you like to do, that's the sexiest part of you. ~ Nick Offerman

When you know that being truthful will not kill you, but actually will set you free and will venture you into the land of the living, into a world where fear is no longer the controlling force behind everything people think, say and do. ~ Nick Catricala

I'm never going to complain about receiving free early copies of books, because clearly there's nothing to complain about, but it does introduce a rogue element into one's otherwise carefully plotted reading schedule ...
Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want to get through, but you get distracted by life events, e.g., books arriving in the mail/World War III, and you are temporarly deflected from your chosen path. ~ Nick Hornby

I think the Bible is largely an amazing and beautiful book of fictional stories from which we can glean the most wholesome lessons about how to treat one another decently. ~ Nick Offerman

Level-1 or world space is an anthropomorphically scaled, predominantly vision-configured, massively multi-slotted reality system that is obsolescing very rapidly.

Garbage time is running out.

Can what is playing you make it to level-2? ~ Nick Land

There's a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema. ~ Nick Frost

You were going to take me bikini shopping?" "Not me, dear. Patsy. I'm not interested in looking at curvy young women in bikinis. I'm deeply in love with my wife and I'm only interested in money. ~ Nick Hornby

It's a great honour to be part of such an iconic brand as Paco Rabanne. As I said, it was totally different for me, so it was quite challenging in a sense, but it's an experience that I'm really enjoying. ~ Nick Youngquest

We sit at the gate and scratch, the gaunt fruit of passion. ~ Nick Cave

[Songwriting is] something that I own - it's my property, it's my music, it's my voice. ~ Nick Jonas

The ragged cat drags its belly across where the grass is short and the stones are sharp, under the lilacs that have no flowers. The flower smell is gone and the white falls off the trees. Seeds, Lark says, little seeds with parachutes to fly them, Termite, all in your hair, and she runs her fingers through his hair, saying how long and how pretty. He wants the grass long and strong, sounding whispers when it moves, but the mower cuts it. The mower cuts and cuts like a yowling knife. He hears the mower cutting and smells the grass pouring out all over the ground, the green stain so sharp and wet it spills and spills. The mower cuts everything away and Nick Tucci follows the mower, cutting and cutting while the orange cat growls low to move its soft parts across the chipped sharp stones. Deep under the lilacs where no one sees, the orange cat waits for the roar to stop. ~ Jayne Anne Phillips

We wrote about whatever we wanted, and we ended up with eighteen million people watching us. That's the thing about television comedy, isn't it? It makes us all a part of something. That's what I love about it. ~ Nick Hornby

When I am no longer desperate, when I have got all this sorted out, I promise you here and now that I will never ever complain again about how the shop is doing, or about the soullessness of modern pop music, or the stingy fillings you get in the sandwich bar up the road (£1.60 for egg mayonnaise and crispy bacon, and none of us have ever had more than four pieces of crispy bacon in a whole round yet) or anything at all. I will beam beatifically at all times, just from sheer relief. ~ Nick Hornby

And the other thing for the sort of posher kids was a sort of lethal scooter, you know. One of the things that you just push along with your - really heavy, lethal, you know, trap your fingers in and every bit of metal got rusty very quickly. And the girls I seem to remember they had a thing like a broomstick with a horse's head on the top which they sat astride. ~ Nick Lowe

After Arthur sent me away for my own good, it' like my life switched from color to black and white--like the ending of The Wizard of Oz. ~ Nick Nolan

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

You ready to train tonight?" Kyrian
"Sure I can always use another butt-whipping. Stone didn't stuff me in a locker today or slam my head into a fountain. I was beginning to feel neglected." Nick ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

Hop in? Dude, are you out of your ever-loving mind? I can't touch this. I might leave a fingerprint or something. (Nick)
Oh the horror. Guess I'll have to trade the piece of junk in and get a new one if that happens. (Acheron) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

People don't hate each other. They hate each other's ideas. ~ Nick Cole

I'm always pleased that I managed to stay out of jail throughout my tenure in Chicago. ~ Nick Offerman

Nick demonstrated twenty-three ways of communicating without words by fanning himself with a napkin. This one means oops, your fly is open, sir, and if you lower the fan a little and look at someone over the top of it, it means wow, I'd like to marry you. But if you do it the other way around, it means ha ha, we are now at war with Spain. ~ Kerstin Gier

It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life, some indication of how deep a hole you had managed to burrow for yourself ~ Nick Hornby

In high school, I went to a place called the Mountain School. It's on a farm in Vermont, and I read Emerson and Thoreau and ran around the woods. Now I go hiking with a bunch of my comedy buddies. We talk about our emotions. I also do a lot of writing on hikes, just to get the blood flowing and the ideas moving. ~ Nick Kroll

...when I die I'll meet my characters in heaven. And they won't be made at me . . ." Nick Cole

Probably the coolest quote from an author I have ever heard! ~ Nick Cole

I'm pretty crazy about the Yankees. When I can't actually watch a game, I TiVo it. I am also a die-hard Dallas Cowboys fan. I don't tell many people that because I will get made fun on because I'm from New Jersey! ~ Nick Jonas