Nicole Richie Quotes

I've learned some quick tricks about how to fix my hair so I can dash somewhere unexpected and still be O.K. when someone stops me to take a picture.

If someone needs a bobby pin or a safety pin, I always have it.

Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb.

We all make mistakes. Luckily for us, there are very few mistakes that cant be solved with a suitable application of either lipstick or hand grenades" - Frances Brown

It is necessary to develop a strategy that utilizes all the physical conditions and elements that are directly at hand. The best strategy relies upon an unlimited set of responses.

I wanted a choker, and couldn't find one I liked, so I thought, 'I'll just make it.'

A mom has to be ready for anything.

You can always land on your feet if you know where the ground is.

Once, right before a show, I realized I'd forgotten shoes. I didn't want to wear my flip-flops onstage because I could trip. I ended up going barefoot, which actually worked out because it became my 'thing.'

Here in Idaho, we couldn't understand how people could sit around on the curbs waiting for the federal government to come and do something. We had a dam break in 1976, but we didn't whine about it. We got out our backhoes and we rebuilt the roads and replanted the fields and got on with our lives. That's the culture here. Not waiting for the federal government to bring you drinking water. In Idaho there would have been entrepreneurs selling the drinking water.

I can go into any working circumstance and, simply, I'm prepared to deal with the work. It was a long, hard lesson I learned.

There never yet has been a country which became powerful without knowledge. A man by his own strength alone cannot successfully combat a tiger, but by his intelligence, he can devise means to entrap him.

I am a really impatient person who wants to see many issues fixed with solutions that don't yet exist.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed... It doesn't give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

Don't worry about what happens when things go wrong; just accept that they're going to, and figure out how do you want to cope with it when it does.

Sometimes, disaster can inspire ingenuity.

Sometimes it's good to be ready for the unpredictable. I'm glad that I can go through unpredictable situations. It's a good thing.

I think, as an outsider, you are ready to deal with whatever comes your way.

I feel like I can adapt to any defense.

I'm very good when it comes to the crunch.

Every time I thought I've seen every possible scenario, something else comes up. You just have to be prepared at every level.

My grandmother would hide bread for when maybe another war would come. You had to be ready.

It's so important to be ready for whatever is going to be thrown at you.

I have this mentality that I have to be prepared for everything.

You need to be ready for all situations.