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

• 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

• I have always respected how Bobby Bowden would go out and challenge any opponent, and he produced some legendary games against the University of Miami and Notre Dame.

  

  James Carville
  • Challenge

• I love performing. The more I do it, the more I grow into it.

  

  Nicholas James Murphy

• We must calculate not on the weather, nor on fortune, but upon God and ourselves. He may fail us in the gratification of our wishes, but never in the encounter with our exigencies.

  

  William Gilmore Simms
  • Wish
  • Failing
  • Encounters

• In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Work
  • Say
  • Lemons

• I think of it as a good opportunity to let, in particular, school kids know that this job and other interesting jobs in science and engineering are open to anyone who works hard in school and gets a good education and studies math and science. And that it's not just for a select group of people.

  

  Ellen Ochoa
  • People
  • Good
  • School

• Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.

  

  Djuna Barnes
  • Time
  • Great
  • Past

• 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