Norman Wisdom (Sir Norman Joseph Wisdom) Quotes

I've an idea for doing a Situation Comedy myself but its always difficult to get people to listen to you because they like to put their own ideas forward.

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• Unfortunately, terror is now linked to immigration, and anyone with dark skin or a beard or a Muslim name is suspect. Russia, France, then the United Kingdom, and now even Germany have no qualms about going far beyond their borders to strike at the enemies of their countries.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • Dark
  • Name
  • Immigration

• There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Women
  • Culture
  • Passion

• Green, red, and mixed shades of haemins are known. If magnesium is replaced by iron in chlorophyll, green haemins are obtained. Their colour is due to a strong band in the red which is already recognized in chlorophyll.

  

  Otto Heinrich Warburg
  • Strong
  • Band
  • Red

• I know what it is like to fear violence. I understand the adrenalin rush that comes before violent confrontations. I write my scripts from an emotional point of view and direct so the audience can experience this adrenalin rush.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Experience
  • Fear
  • Violence

• With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Good
  • Money
  • Focus

• It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Design
  • Hollywood
  • Credit

• As an author, I had spent years writing my stories on my own in a quiet room. My ideas traveled from my brain to my fingers, executed exactly as I saw fit, never veering from my own intent. TV simply doesn't work that way.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Brain

• A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • She
  • Power
  • Think

• Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America
  • Bridge
  • Ice

• The 90's are the 60's standing on their head.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Head
  • Standing

• The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Perfect
  • Expression
  • Award

• I don't do evening business dinners, and I don't do weekends.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Business
  • Evening
  • Weekends

• Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Great
  • Today
  • Determined

• I would never say I will stay in electronic music for the rest of my life. I will always do whatever I feel like at that moment.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Life
  • Music
  • Rest

• We need to recognise that the whole edifice of our fifth estate, of our journalism, has been built on a foundation of newspaper journalism and that that foundation is crumbling. The management of the media companies will deny that the end is nigh. I hope they are right.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Hope
  • End
  • Management

• When I first was a part of 'The Monster,' I really wanted to put it out under my name, but no record label thought it was good enough - until Eminem liked it.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Name

• The government must understand that it cannot substitute the health, nutrition, and overall development outcomes of Indian citizens with 'efficiency gains.'

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Health
  • Government

• Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality will have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Real
  • Reality
  • Present

• Take away that fool’s bauble, the mace.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Fool

• I try not to label myself anything, really, but you know, I'm definitely an indoorsy person, and I definitely kind of just try to, you know, stay away from life in the public eye, at least.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Eye

• I'm not saying all Trump supporters are deplorable, but I am saying that the president of the United States has got to measure his words and be more careful about what he says.

  

  Ana Navarro
  • Words
  • Trump

• Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God.

  

  Johann Arndt
  • God

• What I saw during the Hillary Clinton campaign [2016] with data dummies who were more concerned with polls than people, they were more concerned with donors than voters. And it wasn't a lot of heart felt on that campaign and I think it left us vulnerable.

  

  Van Jones
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Heart

• I've an idea for doing a Situation Comedy myself but its always difficult to get people to listen to you because they like to put their own ideas forward.

  

  Norman Wisdom
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Listen