Emperor Norton Quotes

Being desirous of allaying the dissensions of party strife now existing within our realm, I do hereby dissolve and abolish the Democratic and Republican parties, and also do hereby decree the disfranchisement and imprisonment, for not more than 10, nor less than five, years, to all persons leading to any violation of this our imperial decree.

Emperor Norton

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• We're just going to be ourselves, and we're just going to cross our fingers and hope that people like it. Because that's all you can do.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Hope
  • You

• It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• I have an appreciation for everywhere I've been so far.

  

  OMI
  • Appreciation
  • Been
  • Far

• I have a lot of written material, and all of it's different. Some records that I have are country, some pop, some alternative rock. I just write what I feel, so I can't specifically say. I just want to be an artist of truth and an artist that stays true to herself.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Different
  • Country
  • Truth

• It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • People
  • Interesting

• My human rights activism has been widely met with encouragement and support. Ahangarani should earn plaudits, not only for her cinematic achievements, but also for her humanitarian deeds and her commitment to increased rights and freedoms for all.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Support
  • Commitment

• Morals are three-quarters manners.

  

  Felix Frankfurter

• ..the wind of 'art brut' blows on writing as well as on other avenues of artistic creation.

  

  Jean Dubuffet
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Wind

• We've said to all the guys they are not there to just develop on tour, they are there to get in the test 22,

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Guys
  • Develop
  • Tour

• The spoken word is never really effective unless it is backed up by a life, but it is also true that the living deed is never adequate without the support the spoken word can provide.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • Life
  • Up
  • True

• The first gathering of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could anything so beautiful be mine?

  

  Alice B. Toklas
  • Mother
  • Beautiful
  • Baby

• I actually got a crush on Anne Heche when I worked with her on Huckleberry Finn. It didn't work out.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • Work
  • Crush
  • Anne Heche

• I'm an expert at killing time on planes now. I do a lot of reading. My secret sort of nerdy side is I'm quite into history so I read a lot of history books. Now I write for a few things and I've had a few history things published, which is cool. I indulge my nerdy side and it's kind of as far away as you can get from the acting world so that's nice as well.

  

  Jeremy Irvine
  • Time
  • Killing
  • Expert

• Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Moments
  • Pleasure
  • Kindness

• If you buy the why, the how is infinitely bearable.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Buy
  • Infinitely
  • Bearable

• You see, rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force. It's something very essential.

  

  David Howell Evans U2
  • Rock And Roll
  • Essential
  • Hobby

• The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Wise Man
  • Island
  • Flood

• I think President Obama is not progressive. And I know a lot of people hate to hear that; it breaks their heart. But that's the reality. It's not in his nature. His nature is pro-establishment. If he had a wrestling nickname, it would be The Establishment.

  

  Cenk Uygur
  • Think
  • Progressive
  • President Obama

• The Republican and Democratic parties, or, to be more exact, the Republican-Democratic party, represent the capitalist class in the class struggle. They are the political wings of the capitalist system and such differences as arise between them relate to spoils and not to principles.

  

  Eugene V. Debs
  • Republican
  • Wings
  • Democratic

• Being desirous of allaying the dissensions of party strife now existing within our realm, I do hereby dissolve and abolish the Democratic and Republican parties, and also do hereby decree the disfranchisement and imprisonment, for not more than 10, nor less than five, years, to all persons leading to any violation of this our imperial decree.

  

  Emperor Norton
  • Democratic
  • Violation
  • Imprisonment