Nicely Quotes
166 quotes by 149 authors
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Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line from the Greek…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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You ride well, but you don't kiss nicely at all.
— Thomas Hardy
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Jabor finally appeared at the top of the stairs, sparks of flame radiating from his body and igniting the fabric of the house around him.…
— Jonathan Stroud
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... And drinking neat liquor from the bottle, with all my long hair and my shirt undone and my beads, not so much the lizard…
— Russell Brand
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The Hermit was known to be pretty sniffy about disciples who returned in failure. There was a wall of the institute layered with their skins-…
— Jonathan Stroud
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Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world , individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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I don't do what I'm told, but I might do what you want if you ask me nicely.
— Cassandra Clare
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I used to think of you that way, you know. Like the sun. My personal sun. You balanced out the clouds nicely for me." He…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Thomas reached out and took my hand, turned it palm up, and said, "I believe that's healing very nicely." Aunt Charlotte opened the door just…
— Caroline Stevermer
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Summer came. For the book thief, everything was going nicely. For me, the sky was the color of Jews. When their bodies had finished scouring…
— Markus Zusak
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What am I? Let's just say I won't fetch a stick for you. I won't beg for treats. And, no matter how nicely you ask,…
— Kelley Armstrong
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Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and inevitably so. We…
— Rollo May
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He's like a drug for you, Bella." His voice was still gentle, not at all critical. "I see that you can't live without him now.…
— Stephenie Meyer
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I smashed his hand as hard as I could with the Wiffle bat. "Ow!" he screamed. Carson was rubbing his red palm, inspecting it for…
— Rachel Vail
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You're a wizard," I snapped. "Can't you just use magic to make your own food?" "Ah, yes," he retorted. "Because mud pies are so very…
— Alexandra Bracken
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Life does not seem to present itself to me for my convenience, to box itself up nicely so I can write about it with wisdom…
— Anne Lamott
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Personally, I'd have welcomed a dementor attack. A deadly struggle for my soul would have broken the monotony nicely.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Where do vanished objects go?" "Into nonbeing, which is to say, everything," replied Professor McGonagall. "Nicely phrased," replied the eagle door knocker, and the door…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I was sixteen and equipped with the appropriate genitalia, so I cleared that hurdle nicely.
— David Levithan
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Here I am in the garden laughing an old woman with heavy breasts and a nicely mapped face how did this happen well that's who…
— Grace Paley
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