Norman Douglas (George Norman Douglas) Quotes

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.

Norman Douglas

• Order
• Collections
• Platitudes

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Father
  • Me
  • Memories

• I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Experience
  • Satisfaction

• I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and an actor. Most people know me as a singer, but I am also an actor.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • People
  • Actor
  • Singer

• I feel like I am a lot of who I am because I watched these shows that said it was okay to be a total weirdo. Shows like 'Pete and Pete,' 'Hey, Dude,' 'Salute Your Shorts' - that's what I grew up with.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Feel
  • Shows
  • Weirdo

• The eyes are the windows of your soul, and when you're acting, they're one of your most important instruments. Especially for close-ups!

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Important
  • Soul
  • Eyes

• Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Country
  • Me
  • Liberty

• The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Way
  • Question
  • Start

• It's pretty exciting. An honorary doctorate of the arts. It doesn't get any better.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Pretty
  • Better
  • Arts

• The kind of world I'm endlessly going on about is pretty well doomed, but nevertheless I think there are recesses of it worth celebrating.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • World
  • Think
  • Pretty

• There's always a positive to those negative times, because you come out of it so much stronger and wiser. Strength comes from every hardship, and it's been a lesson for me.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Positive
  • Negative
  • Stronger

• I have absolutely no doubt that there is an intense anti-Americanism in all Western Europe, and I think the reason for that is a very, very simple one.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Simple
  • Doubt
  • Western Europe

• It's better to be wise than to be smart.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Wise
  • Smart

• There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.

  

  Alice B. Toklas
  • Vegetables
  • Satisfactory
  • Thrilling

• I was tired and I had overworked myself and burnt myself out. So I went to Egypt by myself. When I saw what was built there, it made me understand how powerful we are, that we can create anything. And I felt like I needed to create things that were timeless too.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Powerful
  • Tired
  • Built

• If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • God
  • Should
  • Pay

• I hope we don't see no paparazzi today. Because I'm still getting acquainted with these jogging pants I threw on. Like, 'That's not my statement!'

  

  Kanye West
  • Hope
  • Today
  • Crazy

• For example, you have these grotesque, hilarious, profane ghosts in the book [Lincoln in the Bardo]. Even the concept of talking ghosts is, from an aesthetic point of view, grotesque. But you seem compelled by that risk in order to get to the other end of the equation.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Book
  • Risk
  • Order

• Sometimes you have to show them what they want to see in order to get them to show you who they really are.

  

  Pearl Cleage
  • Show
  • Really
  • Order

• You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Me
  • Never
  • See

• Do you mean ter tell me," he growled at the Dursleys, "that this boy—this boy!—knows nothin' abou'—about ANYTHING?" Harry thought this was going a bit far. He had been to school, after all, and his marks weren't bad. I know some things," he said. "I can, you know, do math and stuff.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • School
  • Bad
  • Boy

• I have to say that oil and gas revenues make up a large part of the Russian budget revenue. This is a serious component for us in addressing economic development, budget funding for our development programmes and, of course, and meeting of our social commitments to our citizens.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Serious
  • Commitment
  • Economic

• What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.

  

  Norman Douglas
  • Order
  • Collections
  • Platitudes