Norbert Leo Butz Quotes

Something about being surrounded by water has a really calming effect on me.

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• I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Idea

• Real parent engagement means establishing meaningful ways for parents to be partners in their children's public education from the beginning - not just when a school is failing. The goal should be to never let a school get to that point.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Children
  • Real
  • School

• At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  • Trying
  • Voice
  • Sound

• But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Football

• I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.

  

  Tanya Roberts
  • Ugly
  • Reached
  • Puberty

• I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something that, you know, is a part of my life.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Life
  • Know
  • My Life

• In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • People
  • Great
  • Together

• Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Protect
  • Wants

• I remember my father, when I said I was going down to Little Rock to work for Governor Clinton's run for president, he thought maybe somebody needed to check the medication cabinet. He thought somebody was playing around with it. He had never heard of him, he said. I said, 'Well, I think he's going to be the next President of the United States.'

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Father

• I always think that the exceptional people are those who remain outsiders but still communicate on a grand scale. I think I want everyone to feel more free, and so I feel really claustrophobic on behalf of lots of people.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Want
  • Free

• Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even?

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Important
  • Long
  • Question

• I didn't have a business degree. I didn't have experience to work in somebody else's office. I never built or ran a department. So I was on this journey, and when the time came to make a decision, I was just going with my gut.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Time
  • Work
  • Business

• A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian,Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched,And touched nothing that he did not adorn.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Writing
  • Style

• If there is equality, it is in His love, not in us.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Equality

• But if in vain, down on the stubborn floor Of Earth, and up to Heav'n's unopening Door You gaze To-day, while You are You - how then To-morrow, You when shall be You no more?

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Door

• People who understand context would be steamed to have someone else dictating how they can call it.

  

  Larry Wall
  • People

• Brainwashed from rock and rap.

  

  Eminem
  • Rock
  • Rap

• But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?

  

  Anthony Trollope

• Once we are reconciled to God, the estrangement is over, the hostilities have ended, and the peace is sealed for eternity.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Peace
  • Reconciled

• If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Country
  • Way
  • Democracy

• When I was a kid, we went to St. Augustine, Fla., and I was lying on the couch one night with a Q-tip, cleaning my ear out after I'd taken a shower. I hit my arm on something, jabbed the Q-tip through my ear drum, busted my ear drum and couldn't get back in the water the rest of the time we were there.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Time
  • Night
  • Water

• I came out of a family background that involved itself with people.

  

  Ella Baker
  • People
  • Family
  • Involved

• I would never do crack. I would never do a drug named after a part of my own ass, okay?

  

  Denis Leary
  • Drug

• Something about being surrounded by water has a really calming effect on me.

  

  Norbert Leo Butz
  • Water
  • Effect
  • Calming