nai Quotes and Quotations
Quote Authors: nai
These are all authors with the name nai.
- Guillaume Apollinaire
- Ajay Naidu
- Sarojini Naidu
- Jimmy Nail
- V. S. Naipaul
- Mira Nair
- John Naisbitt
- James Naismith
- Anais Nin
- Alain Resnais
nai Quotes and Quotations
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Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said. Peter Lewis Allen | top
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I was so naive I didn't even know about agents. I telephoned the William Morris agency and asked to speak to Mr. Morris. I expected Bill Morris to be waiting for my call. Kirstie Alley | top
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In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside. Tadao Ando | top
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Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die. Charles Babbage | top
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Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I never got a scratch on me, never got dirty. And Vig would come out with blood and sweat all over him. And he'd say to me, 'Oh, go manicure your nails.' Orlando Bloom | top
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Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars. Warren Buffett | top
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I think that one of Tim's great qualities and abilities is in what seems like a thumbnail sketch to get something quite telling, very simply, when you're doing it or being in that thumbnail sketch, you don't feel that it's important. Albert Finney | top
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No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires. Katherine Fullerton Gerould | top
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There are some images that I will only use once, and not use again because they don't seem to really hit the nail right on the head, but there are some which are so strong they have to be reduced; sometimes just reusing them makes them stronger. Keith Haring | top
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Vote Smart has sent out thirty thousand questionnaires to every candidate running for office. Betty Hill | top
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I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn. Polykarp Kusch | top
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Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth. Harold MacMillan | top
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You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover. Henri Matisse | top
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A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse. A man in any other line of work would nail a guy who laid that kind of abuse on him. I know I would. Kent McCord | top
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But it has been a long process because I'm kind of a renaissance person. Ronnie Montrose | top
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Thanks to the Japanese and Geronimo, John Wayne became a millionaire. Pat Morita | top
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The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed that by what it achieved. Walter Pater | top
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Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails. Plato | top
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I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild. Iggy Pop | top
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What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity. Jeremy Rifkin | top
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Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance. Hu Shih | top
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While nothing is certain, I firmly believe our nation is on the verge of a nuclear energy renaissance. Michael K. Simpson | top
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I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now. Jock Sturges | top
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It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later! Naomi Watts | top
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I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai. Orson Welles | top