Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
-
More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that's more like a spice.
-
I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
-
The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
-
During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
-
I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.
-
I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.
-
I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'
-
If there's a rift in the marriage - if someone feels neglected, frustrated, tempted by others, or unsure - then trouble can easily arise.
-
We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
-
The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
-
Soon, I'll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.
-
If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?
-
I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.
-
I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
-
I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.
-
It was difficult to realize, 'I'm lieutenant governor.' And Brown appropriately reminded me of that.
-
Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.
-
The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.
-
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
-
When I joined Nirvana, I was the fifth or sixth drummer - I don't know if they'd ever had a drummer they were totally happy with. And they were strangers. There was never much of a deeper connection outside of the music.
-
Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.
-
Go out of your way to talk optimistically about everything.
