James Norton Quotes

I crashed my bicycle on the way to my first date with my ex-girlfriend and was cautioned by the police.

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• People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • America
  • Angry

• Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • You
  • Know
  • Politics

• I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Me
  • Water
  • Little

• All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Long
  • Words
  • Beginning

• I think when I first started cycling, it wasn't that popular with kids. I felt almost embarrassed going down the road on my road bike; I didn't want my friends to see me because it was embarrassing.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Kids
  • Friends
  • Road

• You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • You
  • Attitude

• History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Men
  • History
  • Nations

• When something's good, I'm not an over-celebrator.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Good
  • Something

• Love prefers twilight to daylight.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Love
  • For Him
  • Twilight

• We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Light
  • Dark
  • Walk

• I am not very tough with raising my children, but you can argue that to be more tough will help your children.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Children
  • Tough
  • Argue

• An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Idea
  • Being
  • Dangerous

• I felt disconnected from the decisions made in Washington and, to be honest, really didn't think my vote mattered because I didn't have a direct line of sight from my vote to a result.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Think
  • Decisions
  • Vote

• The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Practice
  • Values

• Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Political
  • Human
  • Determined

• We were racing at circuits where there were no crash barriers in front of the pits, and fuel was lying about in churns in the pit lane. A car could easily crash into the pits at any time. It was ridiculous.

  

  Jackie Stewart
  • Time
  • Car
  • Racing

• The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Black
  • Process
  • Form

• My family life reads a bit like 'Little House on the Prairie.' I was big sister to Joan, Renee, and brother William, and we grew up in Dalkey, a little town 10 miles outside of Dublin. It was a secure, safe and happy childhood, which was meant to be a disadvantage when it comes to writing stories about family dramas.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • Up
  • Writing

• I think some cases are different than others, but all of the child actors that I have encountered, as well as myself, are real kids. I mean we do all the things that kids do. We're normal. We just like to do different things. We like to act and make people feel happy or sad, but we're 'real' people.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • People
  • Different
  • Real

• I've done a road trip across Italy with a girlfriend, and that was very romantic. I think that road trips are probably one of the romantic things you can do. To take your girlfriend and just stay wherever; don't have a destination and just drive and see where the road takes you is pretty cool.

  

  Christopher Egan
  • Done
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• What about WRITING it first and rationalizing it afterwards?

  

  Larry Wall
  • Writing

• Sometimes, when I am tired of so many oscillations, I look for refuge in a word which I begin to love for itself. Resting in the heart of words, seeing clearly into the cell of a word, feeling that the word is the seed of a life, a growing dawn... The poet Vandercammen says all that in a line: "A word can be a dawn and even a sure shelter."

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Words

• In any group of people, no matter how hard-assed they might appear, there’s always a geek.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • People
  • Group
  • Hard-assed

• I crashed my bicycle on the way to my first date with my ex-girlfriend and was cautioned by the police.

  

  James Norton
  • Police
  • Girlfriend