Norman Rush Quotes

I must love big novels, because that's what I've written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe.

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• Take a very small amount of money, your throwaway money, treat it as if it's already gone, you've mentally set it on fire, and put it in some distribution of a few truly legit layer 1 blockchains.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Money
  • Small
  • Fire

• Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • May
  • Growth
  • Moral

• There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Feel
  • Right
  • Blame

• Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• I enjoyed being in 'The Ten Commandments.' That was a great experience - to suddenly become one of those holy people. I was holier than thou.

  

  Yvonne De Carlo
  • People
  • Great
  • Experience

• You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it's not good.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Know

• There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Power
  • Government
  • Judge

• A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

  

  J. P. Morgan
  • Good
  • Real
  • Man

• The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Powerful
  • Personality

• Muslims are ordinary members of the working public, just like you.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • You
  • Like
  • Working

• In prose, you have a lot more room for digression, for very meaty kinds of dialogues. In graphic novels, you're writing haiku-length dialogue. Your job is to be efficient, to get out of the way of the art.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Job

• I do not have very much office experience.

  

  B. J. Novak
  • Experience
  • Very
  • Office

• There's definitely stories I would like to tell; I'd like to see more films focusing on women's lives.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Women
  • Like
  • See

• For my own health, I thought it was better to eat a plant based diet. I'm going to be 60 soon and I have boundless energy and I feel really good, so I'm all for it.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Good
  • Energy
  • Health

• My accent was horrible. In Mexico, nobody says, 'You speak English with a good accent.' You either speak English, or you don't: As long as you can communicate, no one cares.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Good
  • Long
  • English

• Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • God

• The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a paycheck has largely vanished in United States business.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Business

• Biographers search for traces, for evidence of activity, for signs of movement, for letters, for diaries, for photographs.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Search

• Any established media, such as literature, music, or film, offers a wide variety of experiences touching emotions from the very primal to the deeply complex. No matter who the audience are or what kind of mood they are in, there will always be something right for them. Video games, as a fast-growing new medium, is on its way to catching up.

  

  Jenova Chen
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• The reasons that major champions are the best in the game is because they're able to keep golf at its most simple. It really boils down to making good shots and good putts when you need to, regardless of what the golf course looks like.

  

  David Hearn
  • Good
  • Game
  • Simple

• 'Another world is not only possible, she's on the way and, on a quiet day, if you listen very carefully you can hear her breathe.'

  

  Arundhati Roy
  • World
  • She
  • Breathe

• When she comes She pulls you close She breathes in short bursts Her eyes close Her head tilts back Her mouth opens slightly Her thighs turn to steel, and then melt She is perfect And you feel like you are everything.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Perfect
  • Feels
  • Breathe

• I write to breathe life back into memory.

  

  Bernice L. McFadden
  • Life
  • Memory
  • Breathe

• I must love big novels, because that's what I've written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe.

  

  Norman Rush
  • Breathe
  • Characters
  • Novels