Norman Douglas (George Norman Douglas) Quotes

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

Norman Douglas

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• People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • People
  • Money
  • Globalization

• You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Done
  • Wonder
  • Company

• I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • Dream
  • Black

• We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Happiness

• I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.

  

  Gale Gordon
  • Great
  • Know
  • Joy

• The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time, re-interpreting them for each new age.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Time
  • Great
  • Age

• Enjoy doing nothing, and you can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy having nothing, and you can enjoy whatever you have.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • You
  • Enjoy
  • Doing

• We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Light
  • Dark
  • Walk

• I run about four to five miles, three days a week. I have four young children, so pretty much the only time I can get away is real early in the morning.

  

  Kai Ryssdal
  • Time
  • Children
  • Real

• How can German music not be represented by an article?

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Music
  • German
  • How

• My life has been a series of emergencies.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Emergencies

• There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Because
  • Female
  • Mozart

• Politicians make decisions in favor of their interest groups or their supporters back in their hometowns.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Interest
  • Decisions
  • Back

• I was never very happy at school.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • School
  • Happy
  • Never

• Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Grey Life.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Death

• The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land,In England there shall be dear bread-in Ireland, sword and brand;And poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand,So, rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand,Of the fine old English Tory days;Hail to the coming time!

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Time
  • Hand
  • English

• It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

  

  Andre Breton
  • Live

• Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy.

  

  Marie Windsor
  • Up
  • Devil

• We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Great
  • Love
  • Reading

• Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate, or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we say, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of optics, or mechanics, as well as the laws of nature and of nations. And it is that rule of action, which is prescribed by some superior, and which the inferior is bound to obey.

  

  William Blackstone
  • Action
  • Kind
  • Irrational

• My dad had to work for everything in his life; so did my mum: she cleaned people's houses and looked after old people. You can be complacent and sit on the couch and complain about the dreams that you missed. Get off the couch!

  

  Sam Worthington
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Don't forget to vote for Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Stay home if you're voting for Dole.

  

  Eleanor Mondale
  • Home

• I don't take roles I can't respect. If I can't find a reason to be respectful of the character, I won't do it because I couldn't do it justice.

  

  Esther Rolle
  • Character
  • Respect
  • Reason

• You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

  

  Norman Douglas
  • Character
  • Failing
  • Constructs