Norma Fox Mazer Quotes

That's all we writers have, anyway; our minds and imaginations. To allow censors even the tiniest space in there with us can only lead to dullness, imitation, and mediocrity.

Norma Fox Mazer

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• A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

  

  Ovid
  • Up
  • Never
  • Horse

• I'll never have a tattoo - I just don't like them, and when you're old they can look a disaster. As for piercings, I don't like them on men.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Men
  • Look
  • Old

• I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • God
  • Nature
  • Environment

• We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Health
  • Care
  • Decisions

• I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and say them.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Done
  • Learn
  • Legacy

• I organize my denim, leather, and dresses by color, although my jeans are pretty much just black and gray.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Pretty
  • Black
  • Color

• A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• Bad things happen when people work together. Everything goes out of control.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Work
  • Bad

• As a male designer, you always need a woman's touch.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Always
  • Woman
  • Need

• I said, 'What I'm going to do is dress as plain as humanly possible.' I'm not going to wear anything fancy, I'm not going to have fancy music, I'm not going to have fancy pyro - I'm literally just going to be a dude walking into the ring. I'm going to look like I just got off work from a construction site, and I am now punching you in the face.

  

  Dean Ambrose
  • Work
  • Music
  • Walking

• Perfume is magic. It's mystery. We recreate the smell of a flower. Of wood. Of grass. We capture the essence of life. Liquefy it. We store memories. We make dreams.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Memories

• You are an over-excited little man, with a need for self-expression far beyond the scope of your natural gifts. This is not discreditable. Neither does it make you an artist.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Men
  • Artist
  • Natural

• The most valuable thing a teacher can impart to children is not knowledge and understanding per se but a longing for knowledge and understanding, and an appreciation for intellectual values, whether they be artistic, scientific, or moral. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Most teachers waste their time by asking questions that are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning is to discover what the pupil does know or is capable of knowing.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Children
  • Knowledge
  • Joy

• If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Giving
  • Opinion
  • Criticism

• It is in the name of Moses that Bellarmin thunderstrikes Galileo; and this great vulgarizer of the great seeker Copernicus, Galileo, the old man of truth, the magian of the heavens, was reduced to repeating on his knees word for word after the inquisitor this formula of shame: "Corde sincera et fide non ficta abjuro maledico et detestor supradictos errores et hereses." Falsehood put an ass's hood on science.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Falsehood

• Before playing Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On A Bad Bet. I couldn't really come up with a short way to sum up this song, but I was watching the movie 'Adaptation' the other day and this sort of sums it up in my head. You are not who loves you. You are who you love. Always remember that.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • Remember
  • Movie
  • Song

• I love being on the road, I love playing.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Road
  • Playing
  • I Love

• The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Worry
  • Trouble
  • Censors

• I enjoy working with writers and their scripts. It's very exciting to me. Eventually I would like to produce, direct and act onstage, but it's not a heavy pressure. When I do it, I want to do it well. I'm just educating myself with writers and scripts, because I didn't read a lot of books when I was growing up.

  

  Tom Cruise
  • Enjoy
  • Growing Up
  • Writers

• The most valuable writers are those in whom we find not themselves, or ourselves, or the fugitive era of their lifetimes, but the common vision of all times.

  

  Paul Horgan
  • Vision
  • Times
  • Writers

• That's all we writers have, anyway; our minds and imaginations. To allow censors even the tiniest space in there with us can only lead to dullness, imitation, and mediocrity.

  

  Norma Fox Mazer
  • Writers
  • Imaginations
  • Censors