Charles Addams Quotes

“Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.”

Charles Addams

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• I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when something happens with the others actors I go with whatever that is I'm getting.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Actors
  • Knowing
  • Position

• I had a really dark time after the Olympic Games... But then I said to myself, 'This is a sport that's blessed me with a home, with an education, with some money. I can't hate this sport. This sport took me out of Louisiana. This sport gave me a chance when so many people don't get a chance. And I love this sport.'

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Time
  • Love
  • Education

• Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Believe
  • Beautiful
  • Bible

• When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship - which means something that exists between two or more people - for the most part reinforces people's separateness as individual entities.

  

  Ram Dass
  • People
  • Together
  • Relationship

• Hollywood is a community that's so inbred, it's a wonder the children have any teeth.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Children
  • Community
  • Wonder

• But the character was so successful, that first one, that they wrote him again and he came in right at the end of the first year in a show called THE BOX. I was up for the Emmy for that one too.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Up
  • Character
  • End

• I figured, 'Why not go into entertainment?' I love entertaining people. I always loved being extra loud.

  

  Becky G
  • People
  • Loved
  • Loud

• I'm probably a Libertarian, if I had to put myself in any category. But you don't come out and talk about these things, for obvious reasons.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • You
  • Myself
  • Talk

• My favorite Starbucks is nice - Omaha Starbucks stores tend to be friendlier than big-city ones, and the baristas are especially lovely at mine - but it's still a Starbucks.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • City
  • Nice
  • Favorite

• Once, and only once, I walked on stage and my mind went utterly blank! I had no idea why I was there! My fellow actors had to rescue me. I was very young and new to the business, so I'm glad it didn't give me stage fright for the rest of my life!

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Why

• You take unacceptable risk, you have to be prepared to face the consequence.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Risk
  • Face
  • Be Prepared

• Television itself is an intimate medium. It's in your house. You're visiting with these people... Not everybody's going to like it, just like not everybody likes everybody on the playground. I mean, that's life - especially if your job is to just go out there and be yourself.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • People
  • Life
  • Job

• I am a woman. I go on set, and I'll be who I am, and I'll represent who I am. I think it comes with age.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Age
  • Woman
  • Represent

• The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of delaying too long before putting the fruit in the Jell-O so it's too firm and the chunks just sit on top.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Life
  • Long
  • Burden

• The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Freedom
  • Doubt

• If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • People
  • Up
  • Ifs

• In my experience, getting rich takes focus, courage, knowledge, expertise, 100 percent of your effort, a never-give-up attitude and of course a rich mind-set.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Experience

• No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness

  

  Viktor Korchnoi
  • Chess
  • Normal
  • Madness

• The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.

  

  Jack Kent Cooke
  • Name
  • Will
  • Redskins

• You're not meant to do what's easy, you're meant to challenge yourself.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Challenge
  • Challenges
  • Easy

• We need to pass conservative policy. And we can only advance our values when we are united.

  

  Steve Scalise
  • Values
  • Advance
  • United

• “Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.”

  

  Charles Addams
  • Normal
  • Illusions