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

• Nothing gets my hackles up like being told I can't do something.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Up

• Computers and smart devices are among the greatest intellectual gifts ever created for man but, if not balanced with human contact, may offer little to develop one's heart.

  

  Angela Ahrendts
  • Heart
  • May
  • Smart

• The Internet has made me very casual with a level of omniscience that was unthinkable a decade ago. I now wonder if God gets bored knowing the answer to everything.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • God
  • Wonder
  • Bored

• There must always be a discrepncy between concepts and reality, because the former are static and discontinuous while the latter is dynamic and flowing

  

  William James
  • Reality
  • Former
  • Latter

• I am inspired by life, past experiences, what's to come, women around me, art, colors, paintings, and emotions.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Life
  • Women
  • Art

• 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