Norman Douglas (George Norman Douglas) Quotes

Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?

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• I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Think
  • Responsibility

• I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Rock
  • Look
  • Describe

• Jason Momoa became a really good friend of ours when he played Khal Drogo. We loved hanging out with Momoa, and suddenly we couldn't bring him to Belfast anymore.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Loved

• My fans are my family, because they understand me and I understand them.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Family
  • Me
  • Understand

• I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.

  

  Otis Blackwell
  • Music
  • Record
  • Gentleman

• I started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies about African – Africa democracy and democratization in Africa, taking Kenya as a model. And then, while I was doing so in 1996 in South Africa, Al Jazeera was established. So they requested me to be an analyst on African affairs.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • Democracy
  • Politics
  • Model

• The little jihad is over, and now we have the bigger jihad - the bigger battle is achieving security and economic growth.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Growth

• Denmark nursed that anger and it kept him free.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Free

• People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • People
  • Different
  • English

• When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.

  

  Al McGuire
  • Winning

• I love the song 'Picasso Baby,' and I think the performance art piece was brilliant. I love that fact that Jay Z is continuing to raise the bar on hip hop.

  

  Adrian Younge
  • Art
  • Song
  • Baby

• What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.

  

  Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
  • Good
  • War
  • Peace

• Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.

  

  Loren Eiseley

• Every once in a while, there's somebody who will recognize me and want a picture, which is cool; it's flattering.

  

  Brandon Jenner
  • Cool
  • Picture

• The evolution of sex is the hardest problem in evolutionary biology.

  

  John Maynard Smith
  • Sex

• I was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious. I stayed for lunch for extra tutoring, gave kids my cell phone, and was available. In my first year of teaching, I ended up doubling the math time that a conventional school would have. But I don't think any of these things were path-breaking or unusual.

  

  Angela Duckworth
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• I would think that to people like my father, and the people of his generation, Popeye is like a male priapist. So if you think in ancient terms, he would have a harem, a symbol of male energy.

  

  Jeff Koons
  • People
  • Father
  • Energy

• I tell you (dogmatically, if you like to call it so, knowing it well) a square inch of man's engraving is worth all the photographs that were ever dipped in acid... Believe me, photography can do against line engraving just what Madame Tussaud's wax-work can do against sculpture. That and no more. (1865)

  

  John Ruskin
  • Photographs
  • Sculpture
  • Acid

• I shudder to think. I might wear lace collars and laugh flower petals and pearls. People might try to pat me. I see them think it. My height triggers the puppy-kitten reflex- Must touch-and I've found that since you can't electrify yourself like a fence, the next best thing is to have murderer's eyes.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Eyes

• A cathedral without windows, a face without eyes, a field without flowers, an alphabet without vowels, a continent without rivers, a night without stars, and a sky without a sun—these would not be so sad as a . . . soul without Christ.

  

  Tad R. Callister
  • Soul
  • Night
  • Eyes

• Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?

  

  Norman Douglas
  • Spring
  • Flower