Norman Grubb Quotes

I, as a human, do not become the power or love or wisdom of God; I merely contain Him who is all these, and everything.

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• I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Work
  • Want
  • Capitalism

• I can't take anything seriously.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Anything
  • Take
  • Seriously

• The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Great
  • Business
  • Lesson

• A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • World
  • Like
  • More

• The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Funny
  • Place
  • First

• Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Pretty
  • Well
  • Everybody

• There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Great
  • Sports
  • Win

• Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Life
  • Up
  • Nobody

• What you have, what you are - your looks, your personality, your way of thinking - is unique. No one in the world is like you. So capitalize on it.

  

  Jack Lord
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Personality

• My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or with, you know, with small talk in English.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Small
  • Know
  • English

• Why it is that of all the billions and billions of strange objects in the Cosmos - novas, quasars, pulsars, black holes - you are beyond doubt the strangest?

  

  Walker Percy
  • Why
  • Black
  • Doubt

• I signaled to my host to try to have the philosophers expound on some aspect of their knowledge. As a good friend he immediately rose to the occasion. I won't go into the conversation that accompanied his request, and the difference between the comic and the serious was too slight to translate.

  

  Cyrano de Bergerac
  • Good
  • Knowledge
  • Friend

• When awful darkness and silence reignOver the great Gromboolian plain,Through the long, long wintry nights.When the angry breakers roarAs they beat on the rocky shore;-When Storm-clouds brood on the towering heightsOf the Hills of the Chankly Bore

  

  Edward Lear
  • Great
  • Long
  • Silence

• Loving-if the answering breastSeem not to be thus possessed,Still in hoping have a care;If it do, beware, beware!But if in yourself you find it,Above all things-mind it, mind it!

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • Mind

• Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Mind
  • Action
  • Judging

• I love how music and fashion are so similar. We need each other.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Music
  • Fashion

• Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

  

  Ann Landers
  • Good
  • Mind
  • True

• Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.

  

  Ken Hill
  • Music
  • Art

• Think of God more often than thou breathest.

  

  Epictetus
  • God

• The evil eye is the fascinum, it is that which has the effect of arresting movement and, literally, of killing life. At the moment the subject stops, suspending his gesture, he is mortified. This anti-life, anti-movement function of the terminal point is the fascinum, and it is precisely one of the dimensions in which the power of the gaze is exercised directly.

  

  Jacques Lacan
  • Life
  • Power
  • Evil

• He who reforms, God assists.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • God
  • Reforms
  • Assists

• Male mastery in marriage is a social illusion, nurtured by women exhorting their creations to play and walk. At the emotional heart of every marriage is a pietà of mother and son.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Heart
  • Mother

• I, as a human, do not become the power or love or wisdom of God; I merely contain Him who is all these, and everything.

  

  Norman Grubb
  • God
  • Power
  • Wisdom