William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN WHEN YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHO YOU ARE, YOU NEVER HAVE TO HIDE.
NORMAN And even Moonstruck - for some reason the audience were just in the mood for a very romantic film, b...
NORMAN JEWISON Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come ...
NORMAN LEAR As young West Point cadets, our motto was 'duty, honor, country.' But it was in the field, f...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his visio...
NORMAN MAILER Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.
NORMAN COUSINS Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people...
NORMAN LEAR Since Stonehenge, architects have always been at the cutting edge of technology. And you can't s...
NORMAN FOSTER Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
NORMAN COUSINS I'm the oldest antique in town.
NORMAN ROCKWELL Water covers about 70 percent of the Earth's surface. Of this total, only about 2.5 percent is f...
NORMAN BORLAUG The whole purpose of annual reviews is to keep you abreast of whether or not you are fulfilling the ...
NORMAN FINKELSTEIN The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have,...
NORMAN MCLAREN Alimony is the curse of the writing class.
NORMAN MAILER With a chemical alarm, you're going to build one that is oversensitive because you would rather ...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF Unless progress with agricultural yields remains very strong, the next century will experience sheer...
NORMAN BORLAUG If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it m...
NORMAN COUSINS Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all ...
NORMAN BORLAUG I don't want to pretend to be a prophet or a saint. I'm very conscious of my limitations. I ...
NORMAN FINKELSTEIN So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.
DONALD NORMAN The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the ...
NORMAN COUSINS If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands ...
NORMAN MAILER There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining ...
NORMAN MAILER History is a vast early warning system.
NORMAN COUSINS One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and h...
NORMAN MAILER Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form ...
NORMAN COUSINS It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
NORMAN DOUGLAS The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
NORMAN MAILER People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of thei...
NORMAN DOUGLAS How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents ...
NORMAN DOUGLAS If sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured t...
NORMAN AUGUSTINE The word conservative is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views diffe...
NORMAN TEBBIT The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of...
NORMAN COUSINS Cynicism is intellectual treason.
NORMAN COUSINS Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thi...
NORMAN COUSINS The root of the problem is very simply stated: if there were no sovereign independent states, if the...
NORMAN ANGELL One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's...
NORMAN MAILER Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
NORMAN DOUGLAS Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time.
NORMAN FORD One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.
NORMAN DOUGLAS We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the h...
NORMAN COUSINS Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's...
NORMAN MACLEAN There is no greater importance in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the ...
NORMAN MAILER Part of the ability to keep writing over the years comes down to living with the expectation of disa...
NORMAN MAILER Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
NORMAN MAILER To find a friend one must close one eye -- to keep him, two.
NORMAN DOUGLAS Everything we design is a response to the specific climate and culture of a particular place.
NORMAN FOSTER As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is es...
NORMAN FOSTER Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.
NORMAN MCLAREN The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
NORMAN DOUGLAS A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
NORMAN COUSINS I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from...
NORMAN MAILER The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
NORMAN DOUGLAS Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara...
NORMAN THOMAS If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.
NORMAN THOMAS The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his mean...
NORMAN COUSINS I firmly believe that with President Trump in the White House, we have such a great opportunity as c...
RALPH NORMAN I am a businessman.
RALPH NORMAN When placed in command, take charge.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF Nobody can ever pin you down when you speculate.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF I am a Republican because the United States is a republic, and the views we hold represent the found...
MAIDIE NORMAN In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsib...
NORMAN COUSINS I can just remember the blitz of Manchester, or perhaps my father's tales about the blitz of Man...
NORMAN DAVIES He got a corporation mind. He doesn't believe in nature; he puts his trust and distrust in man.
NORMAN MAILER The capitalist can only make a whole people go to war . . . by capturing the popular will. The only ...
NORMAN ANGELL Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must mak...
NORMAN ANGELL It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be ent...
NORMAN ANGELL In the years of the Red Terror that followed the Bolshevik Revolution, the voice of dissent was stif...
NORMAN DAVIES Many are called but few are chosen. There are sayings of Christ which suggest that the Church he cam...
EDWARD NORMAN I happen to belong to that group opinion which holds the break-up of the United Kingdom to be immine...
NORMAN DAVIES I could never bear to be buried with people to whom I had not been introduced.
NORMAN PARKINSON One of the greatest threats to mankind today is that the world may be choked by an explosively perva...
NORMAN BORLAUG I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano.
NORMAN WISDOM Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It mig...
NORMAN WISDOM I feel comfortable singing in the great cathedrals of the world because I spent so much time as a ch...
JESSYE NORMAN I hope that any expansion of London will learn from the planning examples of some of its most desira...
NORMAN FOSTER Bulgaria was the only Axis country to deflect insistent German demands for the deportation of its Je...
NORMAN DAVIES I voted for Nader, and I have no doubts at all that it was the right thing to do because the Nader c...
NORMAN FINKELSTEIN I'm constantly running away from everything. I'm running away from things on a daily basis. ...
NORMAN REEDUS My view is that musicals are love stories with great final scenes. It's just that simple. Musica...
MARSHA NORMAN Radicals don't care about the institutions. They are looking for an ideological crusade. Traditi...
NORMAN ORNSTEIN Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we o...
DONALD NORMAN If a woman is dishonest, that kills it for me. I can't even talk to her anymore.
NORMAN REEDUS One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
NORMAN AUGUSTINE Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank.
NORMAN AUGUSTINE Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.
NORMAN AUGUSTINE I think he's basically rich so he doesn't think that the rest of that political stuff is necessary,
NORMAN ADLER The days dwindle down, and the contributions reflect that.
NORMAN ADLER We're grateful to be in a position to help out in this time of need. While focusing our own activiti...
NORMAN ADAMI This celebration has been 150 years in the making, and it's one that no other major American brewing...
NORMAN ADAMI They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.
NORMAN DOUGLAS Eisenhower had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor's. Ver...
NORMAN ROCKWELL They should be fighting the effects of flood waters at home - helping people in the communities they...
NORMAN SOLOMON The land is encrusted with ephemeral human conceits. That is not altogether good for a youngster; it...
NORMAN DOUGLAS Leave the Engine On While I'm Speaking About Saving Fuel,
NORMAN MINETA If you look at that picture for the 1964 election, you'll see I showed three different poses of John...
NORMAN ROCKWELL A sour view of things, I grant you; but one borne out by the history of our age and of the age to co...
NORMAN LOCK For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind.
NORMAN GRANZ I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy.
NORMAN JEWISON You don't know a woman until you've met her in court.
NORMAN MAILER Many a man never fails because he never tries
NORMAN MACEWAN At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know w...
NORMAN MACLEAN Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered t...
NORMAN JEWISON It's amazing how often campaigners in rich countries think poor people don't get backache.
NORMAN BORLAUG The camera can be the most deadly weapon since the assassin's bullet. Or it can be the lotion of the...
NORMAN PARKINSON To be a mainstream American is to live as an oxymoron. You are a good Christian, but you strain to r...
NORMAN MAILER I did not smear anybody. It was not a statement; it was a question.
NORMAN TAHAN The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism
NORMAN BRENNER I came here when Judy was president, and that was definitely one of the things that kept me there. I...
CHRISTINA NORMAN Supplying food to sub-Saharan African countries is made very complex because of a lack of infrastruc...
NORMAN BORLAUG I talk as I sketch, too, in order to keep their minds off what I'm doing so I'll get the mos...
NORMAN ROCKWELL Even Martin Luther and John Calvin believed that the Roman Catholic church, up to the Council of Tre...
NORMAN GEISLER Myth-making is absolutely necessary to create the simplified images that people live off.
NORMAN DAVIES Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destruct...
NORMAN COUSINS User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project.
DONALD NORMAN Just about anything that could be wrong with the instrument is probably wrong.
DAVID NORMAN A writer who presents men and women as creatures truncated below the waist is exposed as one who goe...
NORMAN LINDSAY It was a good class. We always stuck together.
DON NORMAN I see it on his face. I hear it when he talks. We look out at the world and we see the same thing: N...
MARSHA NORMAN We've got to do something. Fowler Park has the Pioneer Village and camping on the lake, which was it...
DARLENE NORMAN Until House came along I don't think the English made very good dance records, you know, there were ...
NORMAN COOK I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset.
JESSYE NORMAN When placed in command / take charge.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF This story begins where all great stories start, with loss. 'Hansel and Gretel' begins with the pare...
MARSHA NORMAN I've had an exciting relation to France all my life, from my young years in Brooklyn when I thought ...
NORMAN MAILER People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first re...
NORMAN COUSINS The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us
NORMAN COUSINS The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the p...
NORMAN COUSINS I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to unders...
JESSYE NORMAN I'm very proud of the people with whom I've worked. It's an amazing collection that just...
NORMAN LLOYD The Patriot missile is a point defence missile. Point defence means that you put the missile at a lo...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF Legislators in each state must determine whether or not regulation is necessary to protect their con...
DON NORMAN I know a lot of white people who have a lot more money than I do.
NORMAN LEAR They were firing the rifle and then fired the rocket launcher twice. One of the rockets certainly hi...
NORMAN FISHER I still get a lot of material but I find that as one gets older you get more fussy. You know you'...
NORMAN JEWISON Africa needs roads. Roads bring know-how and fertilizer to farmers and ideas and business for commer...
NORMAN BORLAUG The historical profession is nowhere famous for its tolerance, but there are not many countries wher...
NORMAN DAVIES I was not the midwife of the Law School, but its fraternal twin.
NORMAN LAMM My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in...
NORMAN LAMM The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, compri...
NORMAN BORLAUG Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious reg...
NORMAN BORLAUG My original interest in the Nazi holocaust was personal. Both my father and mother were survivors of...
NORMAN FINKELSTEIN When I look back at that day and think about those heroes on September 11th, 2001.. They fought a tr...
NORMAN WILLIAMS Thirty years ago, on a lark, my dad took a seed from a grapefruit and planted it. I remember seeing ...
NORMAN BAKER I enjoy reading about the lives of musicians, and find many similarities in their ideas of preparati...
JESSYE NORMAN I would say with the technology we have today, with the equipment, if you put that in Jack Nicklaus ...
GREG NORMAN The opening drive in the second half was a big key. Darryl Montgomery did an outstanding job of read...
CHRIS NORMAN Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can...
NORMAN COUSINS With a chemical alarm, you're going to build one that is oversensitive because you would rather the ...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF We're always on the side of the animal that's being chased. We always seem to be on the side...
NORMAN JEWISON But first of all he is a woodsman, and you aren't a woodsman unless you have such a feeling for topo...
NORMAN MACLEAN I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father.
GREG NORMAN Jason emerged out of nowhere and gave the golf world a welcome breath of fresh air, ... His personal...
GREG NORMAN What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good enough.
GREG NORMAN The arrival of this spy center means that Big Brother is finally here. The balance between the state...
NORMAN BAKER I've been looking at the iPod- the Apple iPod. One of the interesting things about the iPod, one...
DONALD NORMAN And on the morning he was shot, we could see no sign of injuries on this neighbor's dog he was suppo...
AMY NORMAN I basically eat a lot of proteins, and I've been eating smaller portions of food. I try to eat a...
NORMAN REEDUS You won't catch me giving clear lectures.
DONALD NORMAN Having a lot of time left as president is a good thing for him, because it gives him the opportuniti...
NORMAN ORNSTEIN I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the ta...
NORMAN COOK I've discovered that Ruth's husband George Ellis was my cousin once removed - the first cousin of my...
NORMAN JOHNSTON I like to make people look as good as they'd like to look, and with luck, a shade better.
NORMAN PARKINSON When I pulled it out he spun around and bit me and I let go of him real fast.
BARRY NORMAN I don't want to become a rhetorical speaker. My effectiveness is mastering all of the data and b...
NORMAN FINKELSTEIN As a Scot and a Presbyterian, my father believed that man by nature was a mess and had fallen from a...
NORMAN MACLEAN My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him all good things-tro...
NORMAN MACLEAN 'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wis...
JESSYE NORMAN Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every mov...
NORMAN JEWISON At least as coherent as the Gettysburg Address backwards in Albanian, anyway.
NORMAN SPINRAD Kiss me, and you'll live forever. You'll be a frog, but you'll live forever.
NORMAN SPINRAD Even now, when I have time to consider what I've been and what I am, I doubt I comprehend my humanit...
NORMAN LOCK He's about leadership. And along with his ability to lead, he can go out on any given night and scor...
JAMES NORMAN There have been several studies that show the more complicated the enrollment process, then the less...
JAMES NORMAN All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable which makes you see something you weren't no...
NORMAN MACLEAN Literature is humanity talking to itself.
NORMAN RUSH It was weird and unexpected. You have the mind-set of swimming two days, and you usually save energy...
JENNIFER NORMAN We're very concerned about those allegations.
NORMAN BLACK Scholars, I plead with you, Where are your dictionaries of the wind, the grasses?
NORMAN MACCAIG It was a tragic situation all the way around.
LINWOOD NORMAN Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
NORMAN JEWISON Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.
NORMAN DOUGLAS Historical change is like an avalanche. The starting point is a snow-covered mountainside that looks...
NORMAN DAVIES It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power ...
JESSYE NORMAN Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF There are contradictory tendencies in American society. There's a huge range of activities that ...
NORMAN FINKELSTEIN Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside i...
NORMAN LINDSAY I love flying; I love aircraft, and you could say I've had a love affair with flight since I was...
NORMAN FOSTER We will not have peace by afterthought.
NORMAN COUSINS Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back...
NORMAN MAILER One has to draw upon one's own musical thoughts and one's own musical acumen, and not to be ...
JESSYE NORMAN Abnormal stresses and strains tend to accentuate man's animal instincts and provoke irrational a...
NORMAN BORLAUG It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use...
NORMAN COUSINS Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.
NORMAN MACLEAN Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of th...
NORMAN BORLAUG The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF I always get more applause than votes.
NORMAN THOMAS A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds toge...
NORMAN COUSINS