Norman Rockwell Quotes

The view of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be.

Norman Rockwell

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• If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Nice

• My dinner spot is usually in front of the TV. I'll grill a steak and whip up a salad and watch 'Hoarders'. I love it because a) I'm kind of voyeuristic, and b) every time I see an episode, I go to the one room where all my unpacked boxes wound up, and I throw out a box of stuff.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • See
  • Throw

• Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Time
  • Me
  • Dad

• I don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe.

  

  Hank Sauer
  • Know
  • Always
  • Smoking

• Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• I love Cameron Diaz, and I love Drew Barrymore.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Drew Barrymore

• I have a strong affinity for animals.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Strong
  • Animals
  • Affinity

• Don't listen to what other people say about you negatively!

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • People
  • Listen
  • People Say

• Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Up
  • Running

• I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Feeling
  • Tired
  • Hit

• I love Sam Mendes. He's a fantastic director.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • I Love
  • Director
  • Fantastic

• I'm still driven by the feeling I had when I wrote my first book or read a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle adventure.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Book
  • Feeling
  • First

• I have a great track record, and I have never been sued. If I can't find someone for someone, I refer them out. I have an affiliate division of matchmakers all over the world that I work with. Men like certain types of women, and I can subcontract that out to foreign countries.

  

  Patti Stanger
  • World
  • Work
  • Great

• Detroit, the heart of the country... I grew up on 10 Mile, 2 miles better than 8 Mile.

  

  Kristen Bell
  • Up
  • Country
  • Heart

• The apparent pointlessness of fashion may be just what makes it so strong as a zeitgeist sensor. Even I, a designer, do not know why a certain proportion feels dated or why another one feels exciting at a given moment. I leave that to the cultural historians and theorists.

  

  Jil Sander
  • Why
  • May
  • Strong

• I think, through comedy, sometimes we're allowed to discuss things that you'd never be able to talk about in a drama.

  

  Jason Reitman
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• If we may not remain silent about evil in the Church, then neither should we keep silent about the great shining path of goodness and purity which the Christian faith has traced out over the course of the centuries.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Great
  • May
  • Faith

• The only way to thrive is to innovate. It's that simple.

  

  Alex Tabarrok
  • Simple

• I like to treat paint as material - to daub it, drop it, let it slide. There was Action Painting, but I also compare it to paint effects found on the streets. This approach is superimposed on a sculptural surface that is also 'painterly.'

  

  Claes Oldenburg
  • Action
  • Painting

• Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you'll still 'beat the pack.'

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Effort
  • Satisfied
  • Miss

• In North Koreans, the moment we are born, we don't know there's another life existing outside of our country. The regime always told us all the bad things about the outside world, describing America as full of thieves, all human scum, beggars, everyday people dying on the streets and hospitals.

  

  Lee Hyeon-seo
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Poetry is a pure meritocracy. There's no room for ambiguity: either a poem moves you and opens up new vistas in life, or it doesn't. It's completely objective, and the best always rise to the top.

  

  Jim Goetz
  • Life
  • Up
  • Poetry

• In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny.

  

  Emma Orczy
  • Life
  • Destiny
  • Chains

• The view of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be.

  

  Norman Rockwell
  • Life
  • Paint
  • Communicate