Norman Cousins Quotes

The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on earth.

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• Yes, it's annoying that Hamlet doesn't kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, but if he did kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, there wouldn't be a play. He has to be annoying, if you will, and not do what would be the thing to do.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • You
  • Play
  • Will

• No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Power
  • Science
  • Politics

• People always say 'humbling,' but I actually think it's quite inflating being nominated for an award. It's wonderful; it's a great feeling.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • People
  • Great
  • Think

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• I want more movies like 'Straight Outta Compton.' Showing our stories of triumph, we'll make it through, and we'll get to something better.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Want
  • Better
  • Movies

• I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Morning

• The case is I talk for a living, so I should be able to say anything I want to say regardless of how you feel. What we're starting to deal with now is your opinion matters, but to be quite honest, your opinion means nothing.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Want
  • You
  • Opinion

• O fading honours of the dead!O high ambition, lowly laid!

  

  Walter Scott
  • High
  • Ambition

• As an actor, whether I'm playing Othello on stage or David Estes on 'Homeland,' that ability to give into your imagination is something that I enjoy.

  

  David Harewood
  • Imagination

• Do I have a long-term plan? Kind of. I have a general direction, I think. But it's funny what comes down the pike.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Long
  • Funny

• If you have a crisis, whether on a ship or wherever, there are heroes who rise above it.

  

  Jerry Bruckheimer

• '99.9%' is the end product of years and years of me going through multiple styles and interests.

  

  Kaytranada

• I try to keep my filters simple. I don't do anything major to my photos.

  

  Kendall Jenner
  • Simple

• At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.

  

  Elena Roger
  • Age
  • Singing
  • Professional

• The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.

  

  Edward Levi
  • Power
  • Commitment

• I really wasted a lot of time in my 20s.

  

  Kristian Nairn
  • Time

• For nothing can be greater than seduction itself, not even the order that destroys it.

  

  Jean Baudrillard
  • Seduction

• A border collie named Orson inspired me to buy a 110-acre farm with four barns and a sheep. That led to a series of books about Bedlam Farm and about dogs, rural life, lambing and herding sheep.

  

  Jon Katz
  • Life
  • Inspired

• I've never won an argument with my wife; and the only time I thought I had I found out the argument wasn't over yet.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Wife
  • Argument

• Real greatness has nothing to do with a man’s sphere. It does not lie in the magnitude of his outward agency, in the extent of the effects which he produces. The greatest men may do comparatively little.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Men
  • Real
  • Lying

• The audience has spoken. They want stories. They’re dying for them. They’re rooting for us to give the right thing. And they will talk about it, binge on it, carry it with them on the bus and to the hairdresser, force it on their friends, tweet, blog, Facebook, make fan pages, silly GIFs, and god knows what else about it..

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • God
  • Friends
  • Giving

• If you were to write your life motto, what would it say? Look out for number one? Or look out for the needs of others?

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Needs

• Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Week
  • Million
  • Pound

• The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on earth.

  

  Norman Cousins
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