Norm MacDonald Quotes

I have a little bit of an out-of-body experience where I enjoy the scenario, and I really do like seeing a crowd turn into a mob, and I do nothing to stop it. People can become really dangerous.

Norm MacDonald

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• I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen.

  

  Ian Axel
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Queen

• Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Today

• I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Enjoy
  • Look
  • Limit

• I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Love
  • Age

• If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Good
  • Best

• I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Up
  • Easy
  • Gun

• The Oscar or the Emmy says you've reached a level of competence in this business, and I would love to have one.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Business
  • Level
  • Reached

• I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Up
  • Family
  • Father

• I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Abuse
  • Overcome
  • Neglect

• I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Cat
  • Now
  • Got

• A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

  

  Manfred Eigen
  • Path
  • Theory
  • Birth

• I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Earth
  • Space
  • Alien

• I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.

  

  Harold Washington
  • Want
  • Really
  • Mayor

• I don't eat any red meat.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Red
  • Eat
  • Meat

• If people think I look good, it's the make-up.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Words

• I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • World
  • Free
  • Wish

• When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.

  

  Ice T
  • Business
  • Start
  • Fruit

• If you smoke, plain and simple, stop smoking. If you drink, plain and simple, stop.

  

  Bernard Hopkins
  • Stop
  • Simple
  • Smoking

• If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job.

  

  Emanuel Ax
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Experience

• The pebbles of knowledge must be bonded together by the cement of experience.

  

  R. G. LeTourneau
  • Experience
  • Together
  • Knowledge

• Overall, I think any opportunity to expose people to art on a mass level - to have some kid in Oklahoma say to his mother, 'I want to be an artist' - is a good thing.

  

  Jeffrey Deitch
  • People
  • Good
  • Art

• I have a little bit of an out-of-body experience where I enjoy the scenario, and I really do like seeing a crowd turn into a mob, and I do nothing to stop it. People can become really dangerous.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Experience
  • Stop
  • Enjoy