Norah Vincent Quotes
I really like being a woman. ... I like it more now because I think it's more of a privilege.
Quotes to Explore
-
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
-
I'm about a 160, 170 bowler so I feel like I'm pretty good - I'm average, but I don't stink, you know?
-
It's true that youth is wasted on the young and, if I had my life to live over again, I suppose I would pay more attention to my career. I would make better choices. But, in my defence, I would say that I have three wonderful children, and that's something I am very proud of.
-
Love should be an inspiration, not an obligation.
-
To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.
-
House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
-
I am not a hereditary politician and do not have any substantial asset.
-
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
-
Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
-
Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's just a mix of so many great things: African, Caribbean, Latin American Spanish, all kinds of influences there.
-
I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
-
Different days, I think about different victories. Ricky Hatton is one of those fights. I respect Ricky Hatton. He's a warrior. He's a hell of a warrior.
-
I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
-
I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don't work. When you clean your house, you don't get tired; it gives you satisfaction.
-
One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is by no means so.
-
There's a fine line between playing through things and sitting out. I was always on the side of, 'I'm going to play through it.' It's probably good at times, bad at times, but for an athlete to always try to be there and play through things, from a teammate's perspective, it speaks volumes. Now that I look back, mentally it makes you tougher.
-
Terrorism is not new to black people.
-
As great as it is, 'Vogue' won't change a designer's business. But if an unknown brand is worn by a certain person in a tabloid, it will be the biggest designer within a week.
-
I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.
-
I put 'Ghost' online hoping to make a couple hundred bucks, but then the next day, I took meetings with five different record companies.
-
More philosophically-minded critics regarded Einstein's argument for relativity as little more than a logical bait-and-switch ploy: "The supposition of most expounders of the Special Theory, that Einstein has proved the relativity of simultaneity in general - or that his 'simultaneity' is something more than a logical artefact - must manifestly be given up.
-
I really like being a woman. ... I like it more now because I think it's more of a privilege.
