Top 100 Nice Things Quotes

I was excited that my films would finally see the light of day and people would see them. But I never imagined that such nice things would be said about a lot of my films.

One of the nice things about a favorite pop song is that it’s an unconditional truce on judgment and musical snobbery. You like the song because you just do, and there need not be any further criticism.

Even those among us who are lucky enough to love our jobs would have to admit that at least part of the reason we work is to earn money. In between all this work, we like to eat out at restaurants, go on trips, buy nice things, not to mention pay rent and meet the cost of living.

I’ve had lots of people saying very nice things about the work. But I genuinely feel in the course of a writing career you’re going to have people say very nice things and some not-so-nice things, and if at all possible you should try to ignore both.

But that’s one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn’t work out, you have the luxury of working on it over time.

I come from a time when every kid dressed up. Everybody. If you didn’t, you wouldn’t be able to hang out. It was very tribal. There’s nice things in that. It’s culture; it’s roots for me.

The industry doesn’t usually say nice things about my work. My films take a while till they are accepted as good and I think ‘Yennai Arindhaal’ too will go through that phase.

I like to think that when you take care of yourself, when you do nice things for yourself, it has a nice ripple effect on the rest of the world.

If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.

People say nice things about me but they don’t know what’s been going on between my ears.

I love my nice things, but I’m still the Welsh family girl.

The cinema I particularly love is the cinema of the golden age of the studios in the 1930s. One of the really nice things about it was the way teams of actors and directors and crew people worked together again and again.

What other people think of me isn’t any of my business but it’s nice when people say nice things.

Unlike many others, I anyway don’t post much from my personal life on social media; it’s mostly work related. And when I post something, I’m aware that not everyone would have nice things to say; I’m fine with it.

It’s always lovely to win trophies, have nice things said about you, and be nominated for individual awards. But I feel I can give more – a lot more – to both Lyon and England, and that is definitely my focus.

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I’m going to miss mine by just a few days.

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

Well, they put me in a booth and then did some nice things to the speaker to make it come out sounding ok.

One of the nice things about writing is you can take essentially painful things in your life and turn them into something that might be useful, or at least entertaining, to somebody else.

I Googled myself, and I saw some nice things and some not-so-nice things. I’ve learned that that stuff isn’t real, and it doesn’t exist unless you look at it.

There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.

I may be old-fashioned. But I believe there is such a thing as a search for beauty – a delight in the nice things in the world. And I don’t think one should have to apologise for it.

I say nice things about Mariah all the time. I tell Mariah all the time how much of a fan I am of her. She’s one of my favorite artists of all time… She’s shaped a generation of singers.

That’s mind-blowing to me that people would say that because you have nice things, you’re soft. No, you’re soft because your culture is soft.

From a shallow standpoint, I like nice things.

When ‘Ujda Chaman’ didn’t do well at the box office, I felt bad, but didn’t lose heart. Those who watched it on OTT, said nice things about my performance. It made me realise the importance of staying patient.

One of the nice things about publishing with Amazon is that the window for marketing is much longer than with a traditional publisher because these titles are not coming off of shelves.

The folks who rock Uber value their time; they appreciate nice things with a taste of luxury and loathe inefficiency.

I’m quite careful. I like to buy nice things for myself, but I like to also be reasonable. I think I’m pretty careful.

I don’t get mobbed in the street or bothered. Well, people do stop and say nice things. ‘I like ‘Endeavour,’ or, ‘I loved The Thick of It.’

I’m not flashy. I’ll do nice things on the floor, but I’m not going to do the really impressive dunk or make the really impressive block. I think that’s what fans enjoy most about coming to basketball games, but that’s not what I provide night in, night out.

It’s one thing to work, but it’s another thing to work on a show where people stop you all the time to say nice things.

Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.

I have a nice house, nice cars, nice watches, nice things. I’ve got money in the bank. I’m not in need of a few quid – as it stands. It’s all irrelevant to me.

One of the nice things about not working on a TV show anymore is that I’m not on any particular kind of clock.

The funny thing is, strangers still seem to feel comfortable coming up to me and saying things, but now usually it’s because they recognize me, and they say nice things.

One of the nice things about becoming a stand-up, one of the great things about becoming a stand-up, is you realise you haven‘t been wasting all those years you thought you’d been wasting.

It’s always nice when someone you don’t know comes up to you and says a couple nice things about your work. It’s always a pleasure.

There is nothing wrong with having nice things, but when you are trying to buy nice things to be happy, you are going to hurt. It’s not going to work.

One of the nice things about ‘The New Yorker‘ is they let you write stories that sometimes end up almost half a book.

I like to make money; I like to have nice things. But I love to act; I love to tell stories.

I think there are nice things about every era. I wish we could just take the nice things.

One of the nice things about licensing music to movies or advertisements is you can reach a lot of people who normally wouldn’t hear music.

I just think too many nice things have happened in string theory for it to be all wrong. Humans do not understand it very well, but I just don’t believe there is a big cosmic conspiracy that created this incredible thing that has nothing to do with the real world.

That’s one of the nice things about being a sportsman is that once you cross that white line, it is a freedom, you are away from everything in life really. You are playing cricket and that’s an escape from everything. That’s as clear as you get really.

One of the nice things about the Senior Tour is that we can take a cart and cooler. If your game is not going well, you can always have a picnic.

The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going. If you write a bad sentence on the computer, then it’s very tempting to go back and fidget with it and spend another 20 minutes trying to make it into a good sentence.

You want to have a good job so you can make good money. You want to make good money so you can buy nice things. You want to have nice things so you can impress a nice woman.

If you want nice things, you have to pay for them.

If you go back to your home town or you’re reunited with school friends, its always slightly bittersweet because as much as there’s nice things in terms of seeing them again, the town has changed without you, and you’re no longer a part of it.

I feel good about being able to take bluegrass on to television like ‘Letterman‘ and ‘The View,’ and I’ve heard nice things about being able to do that. I really haven’t felt any negativity toward me or my music.

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna – or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

I don’t know what people who I’ve never met think about me. Some have written horrible things, some have written nice things – but I’m proud of the fact I’ve remained close to everyone I’ve ever worked with.

If I just retweet the nice things, it rings hollow after a while.

It’s not easy for anybody in a position of responsibility… There are some very unpleasant meetings. I try to think what nice things will come after my meetings are over… having a nice glass of wine.

I used to buy nice clothes and drive a nice car when I couldn’t afford it. But I spent all my money doing it, and now I don’t have to. I like nice things. I like to travel in a certain style. I like to live in a nice place.

To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things – and I was sensitive to the possibility that if I was seen taking money for saying nice things about a product, my comments and choices and opinions would become, understandably, suspect.

Funny thing, as you become famous, people write less nice things about you.

It’s always nice to hear nice things, but I don’t suddenly go out and think I’m the best thing since sliced bread.

I don’t do vulgarity, I prefer to talk about nice things.

I appreciate the few people who say nice things about me and say, ‘Gee, you were right about this,’ or, ‘You were right about that.’ But frankly, I spend my time looking ahead. I’ve got 23 grandkids, and I’m concerned about what their world is going to be like.

Every museum is full of nice things. That’s the opposite of before. It was important things or serious things. Now we have interesting things.

I don’t ever read chat rooms, because if you’ve got sixteen nice things, number seventeen is always the person that just wants to be contrary.

I never had money; I like nice things, but I don’t let that run my life. At the same time, I have to let something drive me… so now I let the money drive me.

People come up and say very nice things about my work, like, ‘You were great in ‘Blood Diamond!’

I can honestly say I’ve never sold any arms to a repressive foreign regime while reassuring everyone at home that the weapons will be used for nice things.

There are two sides to me. One is the writer. That’s a savage person who looks at everything as a story and, you know, wants to use real life in his books. The other part is the Midwesterner, who, you know, wants to say nice things about people and be polite.

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.

One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business. Sometimes directors feel a script needs something, but they’re not sure what it is, so they show it to a friend; if the friend is a writer, he ends up kicking around with that script for a while.

I don’t really buy designer stuff. I have a few nice things, but I don’t really have the occasion to wear couture too often.

I don’t really like being recognised, to be honest. People say nice things and stuff, but I’m not really in it for that side of things. I just want to play music.

I have a great curiosity to see new things, but not to own them. It’s very peaceful this way, and one of the nice things about getting older.

A lot of people stop me to say nice things about ‘The West Wing,’ nice things about ‘Sports Night’ – so many people that I’m like, ‘Where were you when it was on?’

I made some adaptations, as I combined karate with my boxing game. I’m adding a couple of nice things from Shotokan to my game.

I must say that it’s easy to write nice things about Chicago because it’s that kind of town.

We must be practical. Talking about trade and other nice things are more soothing to the ear than security. But it won‘t be until we have sufficient security against internal, regional, and continental threats that we can be sure of real development.

I’m happy I have fans; obviously, they’re such great people. When I’m on Twitter and Facebook, they say such nice things that I really appreciate.

I’ve had opportunities. But I’m happy at Utah. I can do a lot of nice things and I love the kids. We work hard and we have fun.

One of the nice things about getting older is that you come to understand that you can integrate multiple aspects of your life together. When you’re young, you think everything has to be binary, as that’s exactly how you feel at that age.

You can act as nice as you can 100% of the time, and it will still not make everybody say nice things about you.

Not one person has ever sent me a drink because I was Caroline in ‘Nick and Norah.’ People reference it; people say really nice things about it, but I was sure I would be getting more free drinks.

I’m not naive and realise it doesn’t make good commentary or sell newspapers if you only say nice things, and the time does come when you have to say someone isn’t good enough and has to go. But commentators like Richie Benaud have shown that criticism can be made in a constructive or humorous way.

I want to concentrate on winning things with Barcelona and Argentina. Then if people want to say nice things about me when I have retired, great. Right now, I need to concentrate on being part of a team – not just on me.

A lot of hard work is hidden behind nice things.

I no longer say nice things about yoga. I was doing yoga so long before everybody else.

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

I’d always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think, When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.

I was introduced to money as a teenager, my friends had nice things. It came naturally to me to try and make money.

It’s very un-American to say nice things about elites. Elites are often terrible. It’s not like we’ve ever had a perfect set of benevolent democratic elites ruling over our country. But the fact of the matter is that a representative system of democracy delegates power to elites.

I want to spend my life with someone and do nice things and go on adventures, read books and have nice food and celebrate things. I don’t want to spend the rest of my life in the bedroom like some people who just go to bed and never get out again.

One of the nice things about living in Silicon Valley is that I end up at all these conferences and things, and I get to listen in on the zeitgeist.

When people you don’t know say nice things about you, if you allow yourself, even subconsciously, to attach a shred of meaning to it, when the opposite happens, when people you don’t know say bad things about you, you can’t attach that same meaning.

It’s OK to have nice things happen to you – you should embrace that.

When I was younger, me and my dad used to do different things. I don’t think I would call it community service. It was more just us doing nice things. We used to donate to Goodwill or do can drives. Give people money if they needed it. Little things like that.

Sometimes, people who are very fastidious about what they’re going to do in their work are not very fastidious in their private life. I’m like that. I love it when people do really nice things around me, but I don’t have time to do it for myself. It’s very hard for me to even buy a new pair of trousers.

I was able to do nice things at 135, and came to 115 at the perfect time.

All the nice things about Suzanne are me. All the things that aren’t nice, that was just the writing.

Jesus was not this wimpy little guy who walked around munching sunflower seeds and saying nice things to people. The real Jesus of the Bible said, ‘Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s.’ That is: Obey the government.

Whenever people say nice things to me, I think they’re just saying them because I’m standing right in front of them. Even when I read articles that say good things about me, I forget about them right away. When I read about people pointing out my flaws, however, I think about them a lot.

I used to feel guilty about having nice things, because there was so much good I could be doing with that money. I always tell people that, if you can afford what I’m wearing, then you can afford to make a difference. But fashion has taught me that it’s not a bad thing to love yourself and take care of yourself.