Norah Vincent Quotes

It's not the timbre but the intonation. You're a questioner. You don't have the sense that you know exactly what you're talking about.

Norah Vincent

• Sense
• Talking
• Intonation

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• I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Work
  • Talking

• I love talking about myself.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Love
  • Myself
  • Talking

• As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Feel
  • Right
  • Sense

• I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Opinion
  • Information
  • Talking

• I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • God
  • Art

• There is something joyous about not talking.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Something
  • Talking
  • Joyous

• A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Talking
  • Three
  • Ring

• In the broader sense at Digitas, I've been very involved in media and publishing.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Sense
  • Media
  • Involved

• I think that, for me, Superman just seemed to make a lot of sense to me. After doing 'Watchmen,' it was – you know that thing, you've got to know the rules before you can break them? There was something about that in making 'Watchmen.'

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Know
  • Sense
  • Rules

• Place hitting is, in a sense, glorified bunting. I only take a half swing at the ball, and the weight of the bat rather than my swing is what drives it.

  

  Edd Roush
  • Place
  • Sense
  • Take

• People miss those who they love. It brings tears to my eyes to see the longing for me. But it's my decision to do fewer films and more protagonist-based roles. For me to take up something, it has to make a lot of sense to me.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • People
  • Love
  • Decision

• The 'social contract,' in the only sense in which it is not completely mythical, is a contract among conquerors, which loses its raison d'être if they are deprived of the benefits of conquest.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Sense
  • Conquest
  • Conquerors

• May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • Life
  • Sense

• Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Love
  • Ambition
  • Sense

• Sometimes, you like to let the hair do the talking!

  

  James Brown
  • Hair
  • Sometimes
  • Talking

• I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.

  

  Little Richard
  • Lost
  • Sense
  • Fame

• I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Time
  • Sleep
  • Sad

• Children who are accustomed to being treated well internalize that treatment and have a permanent sense of well-being. But children whose every need is instantly gratified and who are constantly praised to the skies do not have the same sense of well-being; rather they may feel despair or rage when that gratification is withheld, or when everyone doesn't glorify them in the same way.

  

  Victoria Secunda
  • Children
  • May
  • Sense

• I chose philosophy because it sounded like something I ought to be interested in. I didn't know anything about it, I didn't even know what it was talking about. What I really spent my time doing in those years was writing short stories. There were all sorts of interesting courses, but what I really wanted to do was make stories one way or another.

  

  Wes Anderson
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Interesting

• It is very difficult to work in another language, and it is also very challenging.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Work
  • Language
  • Difficult

• People ask every day, "Why was I put on earth?" As if there is perhaps one reason. The truth is that there are too many reasons to count, and each reason and each soul connects to every other.

  

  Allegra Goodman
  • Earth
  • Reason
  • Connects

• Everyone's like, 'Oh, you must live in L.A., the glamorous life,' and I really don't. I'm in a small house, in Pittsburgh, in the snow.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Life
  • Live
  • House

• What if in Scotland's wilds we viel'd our head, Where tempests whistle round the sordid bed; Where the rug's two-fold use we might display, By night a blanket, and a plaid by day.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Home
  • Night
  • Scotland

• It's not the timbre but the intonation. You're a questioner. You don't have the sense that you know exactly what you're talking about.

  

  Norah Vincent
  • Sense
  • Talking
  • Intonation