FastSaying

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.


Norman Granz

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and s...
TWYLA THARP I don't see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don'...
SANDRA CISNEROS I think rap definitely has its place in the art world. I think it is an art form. But, just like any...
RICK JAMES I don't think geometric art is... I don't like to call it that. I don't think it's a...
DONALD JUDD Apart from some of the videos and haircuts, I don't think I've made any wrong moves, ha ha!
GEORGE MICHAEL Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to ...
HERBIE HANCOCK Perhaps... I mean there are people who defend that it as an art. I don't. I like it but it's...
MARK MORRIS I'm kind of a perfectionist about my songwriting. If I don't mean it, I don't think it&#...
CARLENE CARTER I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
B. B. KING I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burles...
CHRISTINA AGUILERA I don't see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completel...
DAVID BOWIE Any form of investment has risk attached to it,but if you strongly detest risk,then expect no reward...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all a...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE I don't think that the permanence of the individual human soul is an indispensable part of relig...
LEWIS THOMAS And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it o...
ELVIS COSTELLO I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple ...
LAURA BENANTI I don't know of any of us that want to see any kind of default happen.
BILL HUIZENGA The kind of flinching from any form of art or experience that PETA seems to advocate is ultimately l...
DAVID MILCH Frankly speaking, we don't see any other way for the steady development of the Ukrainian state a...
SERGEI LAVROV Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no j...
ART BLAKEY I don't think anyone enjoyed it. Apart from the people who watched it.
ALAN HANSEN This is one of the factors that also made me very much want to make this film, apart from the fact t...
OMAR SHARIF I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on...
RACHEL CUSK I grew up listening to John Coltrane and jazz, so they were subtle influences. I sometimes think abo...
KIM GORDON For kind of sophisticated art I'm interested in, the larger structural rebuke has to be so subtl...
JUNOT DIAZ If you say, 'You've made it,' then you kind of come to a standstill, and I don't thi...
JENNA USHKOWITZ I don't think it's any mystery that any Christians can be some of the most judgmental people...
DAVID A. R. WHITE If you don't think it.
You'll never do it!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS I'm an advocate of music in schools. It's important to me that music is in as many schools a...
CHRISETTE MICHELE My whole damn family was nice. I don't think I've imagined it. It's true. Maybe it has t...
HENRY FONDA I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it&#...
EARTHA KITT I don't think I've ever been true to jazz. There's always a kind of jazz element to what...
JAMIE CULLUM Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just b...
EVELYN GLENNIE Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light.
GINA GREENLEE I think there is a debate in the arts about, you know, whether we must strive for art for art's ...
SARAH JONES I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an awar...
WADADA LEO SMITH I definitely gravitate towards quality genre projects and genre of any kind whether it's science...
EMMA CAULFIELD In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say...
AARON SISKIND My stories have a deep spiritual core because I have a deep desire to understand things of the spiri...
SUE MONK KIDD I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.
ADAM LEVINE I absolutely believe in assimilation. I don't believe I'm any different from straight people...
CHAZ BONO I'm always interested to see what films are made of books. I kind of don't participate as a ...
DANIEL HANDLER I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt no...
ERYKAH BADU I don't think any media has to feel obliged to show the cover of 'Charlie Hebdo.'
PATRICK CHAPPATTE I don't subscribe to any particular doctrine or ideology. I just think that there's kind of ...
MICHAEL J. FOX I think my guideline has been to find things that inspire me. And as long as I stick to that, I don&...
ELISABETH MOSS I grew up in the middle of dairy country in Wisconsin, about as far from any major metropolitan area...
DAVID WROBLEWSKI There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in an...
DAN SIMMONS I don't have any affirmations, I don't have any of that stuff. My natural state is to look a...
MICHAEL J. FOX I think it will be very unrealistic for any Indian leader to expect any leader of Pakistan to go and...
PERVEZ MUSHARRAF I don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that'...
WILL OLDHAM I don't believe in politics; I don't understand any of it.
MAIRA KALMAN Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent.
REINALDO ARENAS I just don't think one person has that much to contribute to any subject.
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON I'm from Connecticut, and we don't have any dialects. Well, I don't think we have any di...
SETH MACFARLANE I don't do social media of any kind. If I did, I may as well join Scientology.
EDWARD RUSCHA I don't enjoy any kind of danger or volatility. I don't have that kind of 'I love the ba...
TINA FEY When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might r...
MACKLEMORE I think I don't really have any expectations; I don't look at the season as a whole - I look...
CASEY STONER Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
D.R.A.M. I don't know if any genuine, meaningful change could ever result from a song. It's kind of l...
TOM WAITS I'm not the kind of person who likes to shout out my personal issues from the rooftops, but with...
CATHERINE ZETA-JONES It's kind of a rule of thumb for me to self-doubt going into any kind of project. I always think...
HEATH LEDGER I like art with a sense of humor. I don't have a huge art education to understand everything. I ...
KATHLEEN HANNA You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try ...
JOHNNY CASH In 'D.A.R.Y.L.' there was a part where I had to freeze to death, and they didn't even us...
BARRET OLIVER I definitely like to play characters that don't fit any kind of mold; that are slightly offbeat,...
ZULEIKHA ROBINSON All of us use art and literature as an escape from time to time, but if it's any good, it has a ...
KATHERINE PATERSON I watch people who are not driven by creativity any more, and I think how dull it must be to produce...
GEORGE MICHAEL Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, i...
OSSIE DAVIS Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change – it can not only move us,...
OSSIE DAVIS Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change it can not only move us, i...
OSSIE DAVIS I don't have any delusions. I don't think I would make it through Navy SEAL training.
CHRIS PRATT Don't avoid extremes, and don't choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarit...
RAJNEESH I was one of the first practitioners of social engineering as a hacking technique, and today it is m...
JOHN MCAFEE I think of fashion as an art form as well as an industrial product - and something that has to be so...
HUSSEIN CHALAYAN One of the things that really bothers me is that Americans don't have any sense of history. The ...
ROBERT K. MASSIE One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art f...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE What kind of recognition do I deserve? I don't deserve any recognition.
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mock...
RACHEL KUSHNER You see, there are always purists in every, in every art form and particularly I think in, in perfor...
TIM CURRY I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm no...
BARRY HANNAH I don't think schooling of any sort really prepares you for real life. I don't know if art s...
DAVE GIBBONS I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that a...
DANNY ELFMAN I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm say...
ALBERTO MANGUEL I think by and large, humans prefer to think of themselves as minds from the neck up. We don't r...
MARY ROACH I don't have any assistants, I do it all myself, I don't have any secretaries.
BILLY SHERWOOD I don't believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the...
THOR HEYERDAHL Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think,...
AUDREY HEPBURN I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.
TED RALL I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't kno...
ARIEL PINK Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writer...
PADDY CHAYEFSKY I've covered Avril Lavigne. I like good pop songs, and I don't think there should be any kin...
BEN GIBBARD He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any grea...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN I'm not an exhibitionist in any way, shape or form. I don't even like having my picture take...
MEGYN PRICE I don't think of kids as a lower form of the human species.
JOHN HUGHES But, no, I don't think there will be any kind of problem as far as setting up to be competitive,...
DAN WHELDON I don't oppose hunting in any way, shape or form. If that's what you enjoy doing, you are fr...
JESSE VENTURA I don't believe truth is conveyed by style and presentation. I don't think that if it was gr...
ERROL MORRIS

More Norman Granz

If I were to put on Barbra Streisand and Duke Ellington, one might say the combination isn't goo...
NORMAN GRANZ Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent.
NORMAN GRANZ To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than ...
NORMAN GRANZ For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind.
NORMAN GRANZ My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business.
NORMAN GRANZ The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.
NORMAN GRANZ WHEN YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHO YOU ARE, YOU NEVER HAVE TO HIDE.
NORMAN I've always said it's interesting to watch devils cry when angels want to stab you in the ba...
NORMAN REEDUS A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of i...
NORMAN COUSINS A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds toge...
NORMAN COUSINS A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing ...
NORMAN COUSINS People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of the...
NORMAN COUSINS He who keeps his cool best wins.
NORMAN COUSINS Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
NORMAN COUSINS What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they...
NORMAN COUSINS If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.
NORMAN COUSINS My views line up with Mick Mulvaney's views pretty much exactly.
RALPH NORMAN My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do ...
RALPH NORMAN Everybody's had their differences with President Trump. He's a polarizing president, but I t...
RALPH NORMAN I firmly believe that with President Trump in the White House, we have such a great opportunity as c...
RALPH NORMAN What Washington desperately needs now are citizen legislators that are dedicated to leading a free p...
RALPH NORMAN Our message of a balanced budget amendment, term limits to end career politicians, and a real plan t...
RALPH NORMAN My candidacy is one that fits the district and fits the Mick Mulvaney-Jim DeMint philosophy.
RALPH NORMAN I am a businessman.
RALPH NORMAN I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
RALPH NORMAN Business creates jobs; government does not. Government creates a whole slew of jobs each time a new ...
RALPH NORMAN I believe in the free enterprise system.
RALPH NORMAN John Spratt did a great job of constituent service. When somebody had a problem, he would jump on it...
RALPH NORMAN I don't think I can sell to our voters in our district that there's nothing to cut in the fe...
RALPH NORMAN If you liked Mick Mulvaney's votes, you'll like my votes.
RALPH NORMAN If someone wants to say 'I love you' in a straight play, they say it, and then it's the ...
MARSHA NORMAN I always get more applause than votes.
NORMAN THOMAS To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is...
NORMAN THOMAS 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 I walk where I choose to walk.
NORMAN THOMAS Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
NORMAN COUSINS The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his mean...
NORMAN COUSINS In Britain, the idea one could go from blue-collar beginnings to the university was so far out, it w...
NORMAN FOSTER The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
NORMAN THOMAS At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know w...
NORMAN MACLEAN The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
NORMAN DOUGLAS What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
NORMAN DOUGLAS To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.
NORMAN DOUGLAS You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising.
NORMAN DOUGLAS The fun of fishing is catching 'em, not killing 'em.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF Only in a concert situation do I have access to people directly to preach to them, and I don't b...
LARRY NORMAN I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superf...
LARRY NORMAN Art is more engaging that propaganda.
LARRY NORMAN I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate ...
LARRY NORMAN Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were re...
LARRY NORMAN Gospel songs to me are about the mansion in the sky, and washed in the blood of Christ's crimson...
LARRY NORMAN Life is God's art.
LARRY NORMAN I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really bei...
LARRY NORMAN I'm only here on Earth to serve God. I never had a career. I don't care about commercialism....
LARRY NORMAN We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.
LARRY NORMAN I thought 'The Well' was going to launch my career, but nothing happened.
MAIDIE NORMAN When I was young, I was rather attractive, and I thought that I would be a leading lady. I always th...
MAIDIE NORMAN I am a Republican because the United States is a republic, and the views we hold represent the found...
MAIDIE NORMAN I do not want to be a pawn in a political campaign.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF Particularly when you're dealing with very high ranking people, you know, you have to get their ...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF What people don't understand is this is something that we only have in America. There is no othe...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF When placed in command, take charge.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF I've managed to convince my wife that somewhere in the Bible it says, 'Man cannot have too m...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF A great deal of the capability of an army is its dedication to its cause and its will to fight. You ...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if i...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF What is postwar Iraq going to look like, with the Kurds and the Sunnis and the Shiites? That's a...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the peopl...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF They say the good Lord doesn't charge you for the days you hunt and fish, and I believe that.
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 The Depression was remarkable because you had nothing, and the salaries, when you got a job, were ve...
NORMAN LLOYD All my boyhood, all I ever wanted was to be loved.
NORMAN WISDOM With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and...
NORMAN JEWISON Obviously it's my second senior event, and I'm tired obviously coming back from the British ...
GREG NORMAN I could never bear to be buried with people to whom I had not been introduced.
NORMAN PARKINSON Modern Orthodoxy has a highly positive attitude toward the State of Israel. Our Ultra-Orthodox breth...
NORMAN LAMM If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality. ...
NORMAN COUSINS In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsib...
NORMAN COUSINS Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
NORMAN COUSINS Bulgaria was the only Axis country to deflect insistent German demands for the deportation of its Je...
NORMAN DAVIES I went camping one time when I was twelve, to the Great Lakes. My friend stepped in really deep mudd...
NORMAN REEDUS I've been camping and stuff, but if you left me in the woods I'd probably just curl up and c...
NORMAN REEDUS The E.U. is an organization that was created after the Second World War for calming down the nationa...
NORMAN DAVIES I've been a huge Psychedelic Furs fan for a long time. I love Butler's paintings, too. I lik...
NORMAN REEDUS 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 When wheat is ripening properly, when the wind is blowing across the field, you can hear the beards ...
NORMAN BORLAUG How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consent...
NORMAN DOUGLAS Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must mak...
NORMAN ANGELL Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own m...
NORMAN ANGELL The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.
NORMAN ANGELL God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except b...
NORMAN ANGELL 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 fact, one was so booked out we went from March and were to go till November, but the pantomime wa...
NORMAN WISDOM In the years of the Red Terror that followed the Bolshevik Revolution, the voice of dissent was stif...
NORMAN DAVIES He got a corporation mind. He doesn't believe in nature; he puts his trust and distrust in man.
NORMAN MAILER Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apar...
NORMAN FINKELSTEIN Many are called but few are chosen. There are sayings of Christ which suggest that the Church he cam...
EDWARD NORMAN There is a real danger of the United Kingdom breaking up. There is a loss of common identity.
NORMAN DAVIES I happen to belong to that group opinion which holds the break-up of the United Kingdom to be immine...
NORMAN DAVIES He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work.
NORMAN TEBBIT I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creati...
NORMAN MAILER Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
NORMAN MAILER I can just remember the blitz of Manchester, or perhaps my father's tales about the blitz of Man...
NORMAN DAVIES War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.
NORMAN COUSINS Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always livi...
NORMAN MAILER Courage brother, do not stumble,
though thy path be dark as night:
There is a star to gui...
NORMAN MACLEOD Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's...
NORMAN MACLEAN The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smal...
NORMAN MAILER All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.
NORMAN COUSINS I'm a very intense person. When I go after something, I want to go after it with everything I have. ...
GREG NORMAN Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.
NORMAN MAILER The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism, but under the name of liberalism, they wil...
NORMAN THOMAS The facts of a person's life will, like murder, come out.
NORMAN SHERRY America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredi...
NORMAN MAILER In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that....
NORMAN MAILER There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democrac...
NORMAN MAILER I usually need a can of beer to prime me.
NORMAN MAILER Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the w...
NORMAN DOUGLAS Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find...
NORMAN DOUGLAS Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its eff...
NORMAN COUSINS Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.
NORMAN COUSINS A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and ...
NORMAN DOUGLAS It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, ...
NORMAN TEBBIT Three miles long and two streets wide, the town curls around the bay ... a gaudy run with Mediterran...
NORMAN MAILER Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with it ap...
NORMAN PODHORETZ we make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
NORMAN MACEWAN You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from w...
NORMAN DOUGLAS Aggressive play is a vital asset of the world's greatest golfers. However, it's even more important ...
GREG NORMAN One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and h...
NORMAN MAILER He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity -- a state of mind which, by ...
NORMAN DOUGLAS The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution's in the soul.
NORMAN MAILER A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only b...
NORMAN MAILER Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from th...
NORMAN MAILER The justification for those actions was that we were living in a very hard, predatory, cloak-and-dag...
NORMAN COUSINS It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
NORMAN DOUGLAS Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form ...
NORMAN COUSINS Many a man never fails because he never tries.
NORMAN MACEWAN That the public can grow accustomed to any face is proved by the increasing prevalence of Keith's ru...
PHILIP NORMAN There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining ...
NORMAN MAILER Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
NORMAN DOUGLAS History is a vast early warning system.
NORMAN COUSINS Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level neither too l...
GREG NORMAN If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands ...
NORMAN MAILER 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 Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
NORMAN DOUGLAS There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juice...
NORMAN MAILER We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to l...
NORMAN COUSINS The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives -- the death of genuine feeling, the...
NORMAN COUSINS Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
NORMAN COUSINS Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead thems...
NORMAN TEBBIT The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.
NORMAN DOUGLAS Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The w...
NORMAN COUSINS What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptio...
NORMAN MAILER Like a celestial chaperon, the placebo leads us through the uncharted passageways of mind and gives ...
NORMAN COUSINS If sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured t...
NORMAN AUGUSTINE There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the w...
NORMAN MAILER A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of i...
NORMAN COUSINS Once a newspaper touches a story the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
NORMAN MAILER They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.
NORMAN DOUGLAS Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis--once that crisis can ...
NORMAN COUSINS Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs.
NORMAN MAILER Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless...
NORMAN ALLEN It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be ent...
NORMAN ANGELL You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
NORMAN DOUGLAS The word conservative is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views diffe...
NORMAN TEBBIT A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods...
NORMAN COUSINS The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the pu...
NORMAN COUSINS The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of...
NORMAN COUSINS What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings -- ...
NORMAN DOUGLAS If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.
NORMAN THOMAS I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of ho...
NORMAN MAILER One of the most feared expressions in modern times is The computer is down
NORMAN AUGUSTINE Cynicism is intellectual treason.
NORMAN COUSINS It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes int...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.
NORMAN MAILER There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.
NORMAN MAILER It takes a wise man to handle a lie. A fool had better remain honest.
NORMAN DOUGLAS Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you ne...
JESSYE NORMAN Love is stronger than death even though it can't stop death from happening, but no matter how hard d...
NORMAN COUSINS The root of the problem is very simply stated: if there were no sovereign independent states, if the...
NORMAN ANGELL Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thi...
NORMAN COUSINS I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in compe...
NORMAN BRODSKY The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a...
NORMAN MAILER The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your re...
NORMAN COUSINS Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.
MARSHA NORMAN Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
NORMAN COUSINS Laughter is inner jogging.
NORMAN COUSINS Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
NORMAN MAILER Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its a...
NORMAN PODHORETZ If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
NORMAN DOUGLAS 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 Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been...
NORMAN BORLAUG Unless progress with agricultural yields remains very strong, the next century will experience sheer...
NORMAN BORLAUG There are no miracles in agricultural production.
NORMAN BORLAUG Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside i...
NORMAN LINDSAY