Norm MacDonald Quotes

We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion.

Norm MacDonald

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• I am more mature now and know how to deal with certain situations in football. It's not all about highs; there are also lows, but I can deal with it. Football is a hard business.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • Business
  • Football
  • Hard

• In the present time you don't really establish what you're going through, but after time it's declared something. Right now there could be some writers doing something expressing their thoughts in a whole different style that we're not aware of. This could be the 'in-between the notes generation.'

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Time
  • Different
  • Style

• We are the echo of the future.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Future
  • Echo

• It is interesting to note that life never leaves us stranded. If life hands us a problem, it hands us also the abilities with which to meet the problem.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Life
  • Interesting

• Andy Kindler. Andy's set - somehow he slayed that night. But something weird about it that wasn't translating for the CD. I don't know what it was. But we listened to it and it wasn't the greatest audio recording - I mean, the quality of it was good. But we didn't want to put it on the record because it doesn't represent what Andy does.

  

  B. J. Porter
  • Good
  • Night
  • Mean

• We refuse to believe that which we don't understand.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Believe
  • Understand
  • Refuse

• I am intrigued with the shapes people choose as their symbols to create a language. There is within all forms a basic structure, an indication of the entire object with a minimum of lines that becomes a symbol. This is common to all languages, all people, all times.

  

  Keith Haring
  • People
  • Language
  • Common

• If you took every single penny that Warren Buffett has, it'd pay for 4-1/2 days of the US government. This tax-the-rich won't work. The problem here is the government is way bigger than even the capacity of the rich to sustain it. The Buffett Rule would raise $3.2 billion a year, and take 514 years just to pay off Obama's 2011 budget deficit.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Work
  • Single
  • Problem

• Because, as we are told—a sad old joke, too— Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Sad
  • Speak
  • Jokes

• Writers are damned liars. Every single one of them.

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • Writers
  • Liars

• Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Women
  • Stranger
  • Treated

• You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Bad
  • Generate
  • Good Ideas

• I think my wife is cheating on me, the only thing the parrot knows how to say is, quick out the window.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Wife
  • I Think
  • Window

• I recalled the voice I had heard; again I questioned whence it came, as vainly as before: it seemed in me not in the external world. I asked, was it a mere nervous impression a delusion? I could not conceive or believe: it was more like an inspiration.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • World
  • Impression
  • Delusion

• There is no wilderness so dreary but that His love can illuminate it, no desolation so desolate but that He can sweeten it. I know what I am saying. It is no delusion. I believe that the highest, purest happiness is known only to those who have learned Christ in sick-rooms, in poverty, in racking suspense and anxiety, amid hardships, and at the open grave.

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
  • Happiness
  • Christ
  • Anxiety

• Like the mind-set that places men above women, whites above blacks, and rich above poor, the mentality that places humans above nature is a dysfunctional delusion.

  

  Petra Kelly
  • Nature
  • Delusion
  • Mentality

• We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Delusion
  • Flattery
  • Promote