Norman Douglas (George Norman Douglas) Quotes

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.

Norman Douglas

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• Reality
• Sometimes
• Evidence
• Consent

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• Not long after 'The Pacific,' I began shooting the comedy 'Larry Crowne,' which was also with Tom Hanks, who also directed and plays the title character.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Long
  • Character
  • Comedy

• Every artist says that he/she wants to do something challenging, and I'm not any different. If someone approaches me with a serious role, I'll be more than happy.

  

  Kapil Sharma
  • Happy
  • Artist
  • Serious

• I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'

  

  Nate Parker
  • Movies
  • Now
  • Message

• Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Limits
  • Riches
  • Principal

• If your heart is in love, you can do anything.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Heart
  • Love
  • For Her

• The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.

  

  Irving Thalberg
  • People
  • Art
  • Movie

• The bar is set pretty low if you want to be a hip, accessible conservative.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • You

• Palestine is the issue, and until this issue is resolved, there can be no peace.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Peace
  • Issue
  • Palestine

• The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Perfect
  • Expression
  • Award

• Right whales - so named because they were 'the right whale to kill' - grazed the waters off Nantucket as if they were seagoing cattle, straining the nutrient-rich surface of the ocean through the bushy plates of baleen in their perpetually grinning mouths.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Ocean
  • Through
  • Whales

• If I'm chartering in and out and flying home after I play, that doesn't make sense. But where we can bus, then we'll bring the family out and spend time with them during the day.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Time
  • Family
  • Home

• She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs tight about the hips that season.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • She

• He’s not really a religious man, but he knows which side his bread’s buttered on. The churches pay his salary, so he doesn’t want anyone rocking the boat with unorthodox rumours.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Religious
  • Boat

• A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent. Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • God
  • Remember
  • Peace

• The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.

  

  Avery Brundage
  • People
  • Education
  • Sports

• But the fact of the matter is that all scientific evidence would show, based upon what we know about this disease, that muscle cuts - that is, the meat of the animal itself - should not cause any risk to human health.

  

  Ann Veneman
  • Health
  • Risk
  • Animal

• I didn't even know 'Vogue' existed when I was growing up.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Up
  • Growing

• Every actor you work with has a different method, same with the director. You have to figure out what your shared language is and how to best support each other, and also take care of yourself.

  

  Kerry Washington
  • Work
  • Different
  • Support

• The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience. There's lots of good fish in the sea ... maybe ... but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • World
  • Good
  • Experience

• We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • People
  • Live
  • Mind

• When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit.

  

  Constantin Brancusi
  • Reality
  • Eyes
  • Water

• Walla Walla is where I make wine, with Eric Dunham. He and I partnered up on a small project for me. We make pretty good cabernet and syrah.

  

  Kyle MacLachlan
  • Up
  • Good
  • Pretty

• The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution.

  

  Jonathan Sacks
  • Good
  • Perfect

• How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.

  

  Norman Douglas
  • Mind
  • Reality
  • Sometimes