Denis Norden Quotes

What is a harp but an over-sized cheese-slicer with cultural pretensions?

Denis Norden

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• I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Time
  • Character
  • Think

• Any time you can give consumers more of what they want, it's a good thing. Unbundling the album is a good thing. In the case of music - because it is content that you can slice into songs - doing that is of huge benefit to consumers.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Failing
  • Organizations

• If a decision-making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Decision
  • Process
  • Will

• His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Nice

• I like women with style to wear my shoes.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Women
  • Style
  • Shoes

• We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Music
  • Years
  • Ancestors

• I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Life
  • Different
  • Future

• If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Children
  • You
  • Protect

• Translation is the art of failure.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Art
  • Failure
  • Translation

• Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Everything
  • Being
  • Left

• It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Purpose
  • Opinion
  • Attitude

• The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Language
  • Said
  • Differences

• People saw me as just a singer – yeah, a pretty face who could sing – and not more than that.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Me

• Above all, when your voices are heard in government, it's far more likely that your basic needs will be met. And that’s why reform must reach the daily lives of those who are hungry and those who are ill, and those who live without electricity or water.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Live
  • Why
  • Water

• A man shall not be full of laughter and mockery, nor sad and mournful, but joyful. ... His desire shall not be so great that he rushes for wealth, nor shall he be lazy and refrain from working. But he shall live in contentment, have a modest occupation, and be occupied mainly with the Torah.

  

  Maimonides
  • Great
  • Live
  • Desire

• He showed me his fantastic library first, and that helped me warm to him a little. A guy with a room like that in his house couldn’t be all bad.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Bad
  • Guy
  • House

• The stars were my best friends. The air was full of legends and phantoms, full of mythical and fair-tale creatures, which suddenly flew away over the roof, so that one was at one with the firmament.

  

  Marc Chagall
  • Friends
  • Air

• The idea of running around and screaming about Jason Voorhees trying to kill you was fun.

  

  Lexa Doig
  • Trying
  • Fun
  • Running

• When I look back on my life as a whole, it is impossible for me not to feel blessed.

  

  George Best
  • Life
  • Blessed

• A musical, in its true form, is where emotions reach a height where true spoken word cannot be enough, and you must sing. That's all it is. It's not posh; it's not out of your reach. It's the most visceral way to tell a story.

  

  Donna Lynne Champlin
  • True

• I wasn't used to sitting on the bench. I shouldn't have done it, but I did kind of start to lay back and not work as hard. It's taking a toll on me right now, but I feel I'm starting to gain the confidence of the coaches.

  

  Anthony Charles Edwards
  • Work
  • Done
  • Confidence

• What is a harp but an over-sized cheese-slicer with cultural pretensions?

  

  Denis Norden