Norman Douglas (George Norman Douglas) Quotes

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

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• Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Fraud

• Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.

  

  Larry Brown
  • School
  • Kids
  • Worship

• Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a sudden, I was getting good parts in all of these plays. I just loved it. I started getting A's in acting, directing and technical theater. I found something that clicked.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Good
  • School
  • Passion

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Book

• I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Leader
  • Role
  • Prison

• In order to do a musical now, a style must be developed that works for today's audience.

  

  Randal Kleiser
  • Today
  • Style
  • Now

• Like the rest of the city, LAX is coming of age.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Age
  • City
  • Rest

• It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • People
  • God
  • Why

• I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Interesting
  • Question
  • Religion

• I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Difficult

• If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Great
  • Country
  • Opportunity

• When I auditioned for 'Pitch Perfect,' I didn't know it was a singing movie. I didn't read the script. I go to the audition, and I'm like, 'Oh, it's a baseball movie.' But then I'm reading the lines, and I'm like, 'This doesn't seem like a baseball movie.'

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Movie
  • Reading
  • Perfect

• I like - I love calculus. I love linear algebra, probability and statistics, that kind of stuff. I just really like that.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Love
  • Kind
  • Statistics

• There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Good
  • Freedom

• Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Men
  • Power
  • History

• A man’s body and the needs of his body are now everywhere treated with a tender indulgence. Is the thinking mind then, to be the only thing that is never to obtain the slightest measure of consideration or protection, to say nothing of respect?

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Respect

• With life and grandkids and the whole thing, every day is busy, but I'm so thankful to God that I'm still here.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Life
  • God
  • Thankful

• When I wear a silk scarf I never feel so definitely like a woman, a beautiful woman.

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • Woman
  • Feel
  • Silk

• Fear is that thing that keeps you up there on that other plateau. Fear is that thing that just keeps you closed down, and quite frankly, alone.

  

  Andrew Shue
  • Fear
  • Alone
  • Closed

• A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.

  

  Aristotle
  • Friend
  • Existence
  • Consciousness

• It is important to distinguish between the power of the Internet to make the great change it can, and the limits and vulnerabilities of that change without real-time political mobilization deployed globally to protect those who venture out, especially in closed societies, into the heady new vistas it offers.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Time
  • Great
  • Important

• To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It's not yet knowledge; it's an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Love
  • Knowledge
  • Person

• Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

  

  Norman Douglas
  • Home
  • Friend
  • Found