N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Nancy Pelosi is committed to her global warming fanaticism to the point where she has said she's just trying to save the planet. We all know that someone did that over 2,000 years ago, they saved the planet - we didn't need Nancy Pelosi to do that.”
“Nancy Pelosi said that when it comes to cleaning up government, the Democrats have drained the swamp. The only problem with that is what's left after you drain the swamp: snakes everywhere.”
“Nancy Reagan actually took some movies that she didn't want to take because they were [with Ronald Reagan] really strapped for cash.”
“Nancy Reagan fell down and broke her hair.”
“Nancy Reagan sort of downplayed that, you know - but she was quite successful. At the time she married Ronald Reagan, I think she was keenly aware that [Reagan's first wife] Jane Wyman's career had eclipsed Ronald Reagan's, so she was very determined not to have that happen.”
“Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.”
“Nancy Reagan would just run up to these kids [with really painful disabilities and deformities] and hold them and pick them up... because I think she felt so judged all the time and she felt so unlovable.”
“Nancy Reagan, when presented with kids with really painful disabilities and deformities, she was completely undaunted.”
“Nancy: sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.
Decca: sisters are life's cruel adversity”
“Nancy: sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.
Decca: sisters are life's cruel adversity.
The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family”
“Nancy was as proud as she was critical of her younger daughter. She spoke glowingly about the precocious little girl who said her first sentence at seven months and walked at ten months.”
Source: The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality
“Nancy's got a guardian angel. Seven feet plus of muscle and mayhem that goes by the name of Marv.”
Source: A dame to kill for: a tale from Sin City
“Nancy, an attractive titian blond, grinned up at her friend.”
Source: Nancy Drew 04: The Mystery at Lilac Inn
“Nancy, every place you go, it seems as if mysteries just pile up one after another.”
Source: Nancy Drew 12: The Message in the Hollow Oak
“Nancy, if I were your husband I'd drink it.”
“Nancy, you're a whiz, as I've often told you," her friend declared.”
Source: Nancy Drew 06: The Secret of Red Gate Farm
“Nanda broke down every barrier and won his way to freedom not by brag, not by bluster, but by the purest form of self-suffering.”
Source: Young India, 1927-1928
“Naniamma glanced up, and her eyes met Maya's. The joy Maya saw there made her heart swell. Zara gently lifted out another picture, a shot of the entire family sitting in the garden. In their faces Maya saw herself.”
Source: Ticket to India
“Naniniwala ako na kapag gusto mo ang isang bagay, walang mahirap para sa'yo. Kada semplang... Pagpag, bangon, sugod lang. Magkakamali ka ng paulit-ulit pero magpapatuloy ka parin, dahil minsan kailangan nating madapa para sa mas tamang paraan ng pagtayo.'PADAYON LANG!”
“Nannies love working in our house because they never know who's gonna walk through the door.”
“Nanny Ogg could see the future in the froth on a beer mug. It invariably showed that she was going to enjoy a refreshing drink which she almost certainly was not going to pay for.”
“Nanny Ogg gave this the same consideration as would a nuclear physicist who'd just been told that someone was banging two bits of sub-critical uranium together to keep warm.”
Source: Lords and Ladies
“Nanny Ogg knew how to start spelling 'banana', but didn't know how you stopped.”
“Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.”
“Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people.”
Source: Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)
“Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m.”
Source: Maskerade
“Nanny Ogg was sitting in a chair by the fire with a quart mug in one hand, and was conducting
the reprise with a cigar. She grinned when she saw Granny’s face.
“What ho, my old boiler,” she screeched above the din. “See you turned up, then. Have a
drink. Have two. Wotcher, Magrat. Pull up a chair and call the cat a bastard.”
Source: Wyrd Sisters
“Nanny Piggins lost the Vegetable Peeling, Gutter Cleaning, and Long Division Explaining tests as well. She got caught telling Michael, 'Don't bother to learn that. Long division is a waste of brain space, when you can just buy a calculator.' Which is only the truth.”
Source: The Adventures of Nanny Piggins
“Nanny's words made Janie's kiss across the gatepost seem like a manure pile after a rain”
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
“Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down.”
“NaNo[ National Novel Writing Month] is an awesome opportunity to stretch your writing muscles and gives you permission to write in a way you probably wouldn't do in a normal circumstance.”
“Nanoengineering is learning how to make devices as small as 10 to 100 atoms in width. Much of the work is going on in the electronics industry, where there is great demand to pack more components onto computer chips.”
“Nanophysics is like art in science.”
“Nanotechnology and physics present us with the tool for advances in building the future.”
“Nanotechnology in medicine is going to have a major impact on the survival of the human race.”
“Nanotechnology is a tool to see what is invisible.”
“Nanotechnology is an idea that most people simply didn't believe.”
“Nanotechnology is manufacturing with atoms."
William Powell, lead nanotechnologist at the Goddard Flight Centre”
“Nanotechnology is really interesting to me. Stuff to sort of make our world a better place, and a cleaner place, through science. And it also explains things that are happening. I've always been into it.”
“Nanotechnology is the idea that we can create devices and machines all the way down to the nanometer scale, which is a billionth of a meter, about half the width of a human DNA molecule.”
“Nanotechnology is understandable when we adjust its scope 1-100nm to our mind, where is the working area of this science to produce technology.”
“Nanotechnology is working below micrometers to add functional density to materials.”
“Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.”
“Nanti,
Saat aku telah lelah menanti-nanti.
Jangan sapa aku dulu.
Nantikan saja,
Sampai aku melupakan saat-saat menantimu.
Lalu ku kan menyapamu terlebih dahulu.”
“Nantucket is a place where some kind of magic happens, it's where I met my husband 32 years ago, and we've been together since the day we met. It's the kind of place that when people come here, they think they'll be happy. I see people falling in love or recovering from some conflict here, and I wanted to capture that.”
“Naodyma isn’t exactly a one-temple town, you know.”
Source: The Invisible Hands - Part 2: Castling
“Naoko spoke to me in the spaces between the crashing of the dark waves.
Eventually though, the tide would pull back, and I would be left on the beach alone.”
“Naoko stayed frozen in place, like a small nocturnal animal that has been lured out by the moonlight. The direction of the glow exaggerated the silhouette of her lips. Seeming utterly fragile and vulnerable, the silhouette pulsed almost imperceptibly with the beating of her heart or the motions of her inner heart, as if she were whispering soundless words to the darkness.
I swallowed in hopes of easing my thirst, but in the stillness of the night, the sound I made was huge. As if this were a signal to her, Naoko stood and glided toward the head of the bed, gown rustling faintly. She knelt on the floor by my pillow, eyes fixed on mine. I stared back at her, but her eyes told me nothing. Strangely transparent, they seemed like windows to a world beyond, but however long I peered into their depths, there was nothing I could see. Our faces were no more than ten inches apart, but she was light-years away from me.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“Naomi figured that newly employed Lin had provided the treats as the rest of her team knew glazed doughnuts were her least favourite. “Glazed doughnuts are the equivalent of sex without foreplay: pointless and bland,” she’d quipped one day, and everyone had laughed and agreed.”
Source: Overflowing Nothings and Threadbare Everythings
“Naomi giggled that same giggle with which Enoch had become infatuated.”