Nice Words Quotes

• A lot of people have been telling me that I was going to be in the Hall of Fame and those are nice words and I try not to think about it, but when the call came, it made it real. It was a pretty darned good feeling.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Real, Nice, Thinking

  Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. February 16, 2007.

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• You can hear a hundred nice words about yourself, and you'll only remember the one bad one.

  Alicia Vikander

  Nice, Remember, Hundred

  "Alicia Vikander, Michael Fassbender on The Light Between Oceans". Interview with Joe McGovern, ew.com. September 02, 2016.

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• Your kids are never to young or too old to hear nice words about them.

  Coco Rocha

  Nice, Kids, Young

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight.

  Star Jones

  Nice, Use, Size

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• It's pleasant to hear these nice words while I'm still alive. I'd rather have the taffy than the epitaphy.

  Chauncey Depew

  Nice, Taffy, Alive

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• Unhappy is a nice word.

  Jose Mourinho

  Nice, Unhappy

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• [An article about Cho] started out, "Funny, sexy, zaftig Margaret Cho..." What is "zaftig?" Isn't that German for "big fat pig?" I guess I was lucky - "zaftig" is kind of a nice word. It could have been, "Funny, sexy, OBESE Margaret Cho."

  Margaret Cho

  Sexy, Nice, Pigs

  "Drunk With Power". CD by Margaret Cho, 1996.

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• You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida. It doesn't mean just purity of life, but the raw, stark-naked quality of life. And that's what makes young people more into a filmmaker than academia.

  Werner Herzog

  Life, Nice, Mean

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• Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.

  Simon Cowell

  Nice, Flattery, Stranger

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• Humbling was a nice word, Rahel thought. Humbling along without a care in the world

  Arundhati Roy

  Nice, World, Care

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.54, Penguin Books India

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• I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should not I call it so?" "Very true," said Henry, "and this is a very nice day, and we are taking a very nice walk, and you are two very nice young ladies. Oh! It is a very nice word indeed! It does for everything. Originally perhaps it was applied only to express neatness, propriety, delicacy, or refinement—people were nice in their dress, in their sentiments, or their choice. But now every commendation on every subject is comprised in that one word.

  Jane Austen

  Nice, Book, Mean

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• So, 'reaper' is really just a nice word for 'covert pervert?' Is that what you're saying?

  Rachel Vincent

  Nice, Reaper, Covert

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “Reaper”, p.28, Harlequin

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• They weren't nice words he said. He could've lived a good life and died never having made a person feel rubbed down to bones and too sad to hold together.

  Shannon Hale

  Good Life, Nice, Together

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• I don't want to be remembered. I want the nice words when I can hear them.

  Jerry Lewis

  Nice, Want, Remembered

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• Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

  Robert Kennedy

  Change, Nice, Inspiration

  Robert F. Kennedy (1964). “The Pursuit of Justice”, New York : Harper & Row

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• No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Nice, Thinking, Influence

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