Jessye Norman Quotes

I walk an 11-minute mile without huffing and puffing.

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• I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Doing
  • Project
  • Whatever

• Sauce is certainly ancestral to French cooking. The technique is very tricky, but it's also very fundamental.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Cooking
  • Sauce
  • Tricky

• My music is about where I am at the time. In 'Raymond vs. Raymond,' I was going through a lot of things, and it came out in my music. My marriage fell apart, and I was suddenly a single father.

  

  Usher
  • Time
  • Music
  • Father

• I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Important
  • Money

• Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Life
  • Good
  • Bad

• I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Myself
  • Look
  • Appearance

• My parents were brutal to each other, so I slept in the basement by an old coal-fired furnace. I became a street kid. Occasionally, I'd live with aunts or uncles, then I'd run away to live in the woods, trapping and hunting game to survive. The wilderness pulled at me; still does.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Live
  • Game
  • Parents

• Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Jesus
  • Religion
  • Him

• Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

  

  E. B. White
  • Age
  • Problem
  • Myself

• My legacy isn't about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came from playing football.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Football
  • Playing
  • Legacy

• It's an exciting life. I don't know where God is leading us. I just know that He opens doors and He closes the doors, and it is always the best for us.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Life
  • God
  • Best

• I've written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Intelligence
  • Evolution

• To sum it all up: It was a great picture to do; I just wish it had never been released.

  

  Jack Nance
  • Up
  • Great
  • Wish

• I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs.

  

  Mae West

• Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Today
  • Fear
  • Democracy

• I can't change the way I am … but if I offended you, good. Cause I still don't give a fuck.

  

  Eminem
  • Good

• The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you're gone.

  

  Ben Stein
  • God
  • Community

• I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

  

  Bill Hicks

• I had a job on college campus. I lost that job, but on my way home I heard an inner voice that said go out for the baseball team. I was a walk-on, and I was actually petrified as a walk-on because you're not an athlete.

  

  Lou Brock
  • Home
  • Job
  • Team

• It is on record that when a young aspirant asked Faraday the secret of his success as a scientific investigator, he replied, 'The secret is comprised in three words- Work, Finish, Publish.'

  

  Michael Faraday
  • Success
  • Secret
  • Scientific

• When I like myself, which is not too often, but when I do like myself on film, it's when I point, and I go, 'Look what she did! She did the funniest thing - look at her!' Where I can really separate back from it and I don't see me anymore, then I'm really excited. That's, like, really fun for me. That jazzes me.

  

  Dinah Manoff
  • She
  • Fun

• In the next 30 years we can destroy our world. With the very same powers - spiritual, social, scientific - we can evolve our world. Our mission is to serve as catalysts for a planetary awakening in our lifetime, to take a non-violent path to the next stage of our evolution.

  

  Barbara Marx Hubbard
  • Evolution
  • Destroy
  • Lifetime

• Just find things you think are fun, and then you'll be more inclined to want to go work out.

  

  Ali Krieger
  • Work
  • Fun

• I walk an 11-minute mile without huffing and puffing.

  

  Jessye Norman