Denis Norden Quotes
What is a harp but an over-sized cheese-slicer with cultural pretensions?
Denis Norden
Quotes to Explore
We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.
Zubin Mehta
I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.
Illeana Douglas
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
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
Translation is the art of failure.
Umberto Eco
Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
Victor Hugo
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
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
I'm a big fan of British journalists like 'The Independent's Robert Fisk, but it's hard to find voices like his in the U.S.
Jackson Browne
People saw me as just a singer – yeah, a pretty face who could sing – and not more than that.
Aaron Tveit
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
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
