Norman Douglas (George Norman Douglas) Quotes

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

Norman Douglas

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• I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Relationship
  • Husband

• In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Different
  • Lost
  • Memory

• I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • History
  • Career
  • Over

• When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • War
  • Doing
  • Saying

• Feeling passionate about something doesn't mean you have to be angry.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Feeling
  • Mean
  • Angry

• Everyone else in the 'iCarly' cast can operate on 5 hours of sleep, but not so for 'Old Man Nathan!'

  

  Nathan Kress
  • Man
  • Sleep
  • Old

• Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Latin
  • Greek
  • Come

• Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Up
  • Nothing
  • Boring

• I had to understand the whole bounty hunting thing, because we don't have that in Venezuela. Nothing similar at all, at least not legal.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Understand
  • Hunting
  • Legal

• If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Paint

• The purse strings tie us to our kind.

  

  Walter Bagehot

• If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • War

• Feminism, in all fields, has yet to produce a single scholar of the intellectual rank of scores of these learned men e.g., Bruno Snell, Albin Lesky, Denys Page in the German and British academic tradition.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Single
  • German

• He suffers from one great literary defect, which is often found in lonely geniuses: he never knows when to stop. Lonely people are apt to fall in love with the sound of their own voice, as Narcissus fell in love with his reflection, not out of conceit but out of despair of finding another who will listen and respond.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • People
  • Great
  • Stop

• Harriet: making an excuse Um... I'm looking for a copy of The Wheat-Free Guide to Creative Visualization in Co-dependent Past-Life Relationships.Mo: Huh. Jeez, I never heard of that one... Wonder if it's in spirituality or cooking.

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • Life
  • Free
  • Past

• My favorite actor is Steve McQueen, and he did his own stunts.

  

  Christian Kane

• We have entered the cell, the Mansion of our birth, and started the inventory of our acquired wealth.

  

  Albert Claude

• Too many Californians are struggling to make ends meet, pay the bills, and send their kids to college. They are looking for progressive leaders in Washington who will fight for them, like Senator Boxer has done for over 20 years.

  

  Antonio Villaraigosa
  • Done
  • Kids
  • College

• At its core, the FCC's plan to regulate the Internet will force businesses and people to check first with the government and get permission to innovate.

  

  Mary Bono
  • People

• [Writing something original from scratch], the initial process is way different. But once it exists and you start to actually work on making it real, then the approach is kind of the same, for me anyways.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Work
  • Different
  • Writing

• I used to just sign papers and not pay no attention to what I'm signing.

  

  Otis Rush
  • Attention
  • Pay
  • Used

• Anyone who has lived through an English winter can see the point of building Stonehenge to make the Sun come back.

  

  Alison Jolly
  • Sun
  • Winter
  • Comeback

• I've done every imaginable job possible out there - movies, TV, animation, TV movies... and, at this point, almost reality, it seems. It's been a real blessing. It's been a great ride.

  

  George Newbern
  • Great
  • Real
  • Done

• The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

  

  Norman Douglas
  • Winter
  • Hardship