Kathleen Norris Quotes

Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.

Kathleen Norris

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• If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Men
  • Law
  • Liberty

• If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Writing
  • Kids
  • Die

• So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.

  

  Aaron Ashmore
  • People
  • Many
  • Loyal

• I said to myself as Junction Point embarked on the Epic Mickey journey that, worst case, we'd be 'a footnote in Disney history.' Looking back on it, I think we did far better than that.

  

  Warren Spector
  • History
  • Myself
  • Journey

• My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Parents
  • Army
  • Very

• In the end, our minds and their ability to create new ideas are the ultimate source of all human wealth. That's a resource nearly without limit.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Ideas
  • End
  • Wealth

• Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet.

  

  Sam Elliott
  • Know
  • Feel
  • Hollywood

• When politicians don black robes and seize powers they do not have, they should be called out for what they are - usurpers and petty tyrants.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Black
  • Petty
  • Seize

• Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show.

  

  Major Taylor
  • World
  • Living
  • Greatest

• 'Why won't anyone ever answer my questions?''Because you never stop asking them and especially because you keep asking them even when it's clear that nobody knows the answers.''Well, how do I know that they don't know the answer unless I ask?'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Why
  • Stop

• If thou canst see sharp, look and judge wisely, says the philosopher.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Judge

• A ritual or tradition can be as simple as something you do every night, like read a story to a small child, or something you do weekly, such as go out for Chinese food.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Night
  • Small
  • Food

• I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible.

  

  Atom Egoyan
  • Work
  • Small
  • Environment

• What you need, above all else, is a love for your subject, whatever it is. You've got to be so deeply in love with your subject that when curve balls are thrown, when hurdles are put in place, you've got the energy to overcome them.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Energy

• I went to New York for Fashion Week and girls showed up waiting to see me. It's funny because there's a group of girls who I actually recognize because they always show up. It's nice and I'm like, 'Hi girls! I recognize your faces!' It's just like a feel-good experience.

  

  Katie Cassidy
  • Up
  • Good
  • Experience

• When I was in middle school, we had moved from Texas to Orange County. I didn't fit in, and it was pretty lonely.

  

  Pedro Pascal
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Lonely

• I like people like Andre Malraux, Edmund Wilson, Willa Cather, Robert Graves, Erik Erikson, and Francis Steegmuller.

  

  Lee Radziwill
  • People

• I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that I don't think it will work out, doesn't mean that it actually won't.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Time
  • Work

• I would like to play with electronic keyboards again.

  

  Andy Summers The Police

• Easter's nearly here, now.

  

  Nancy Byrd Turner
  • Now
  • Here
  • Easter

• I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die - and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Money
  • Die
  • End

• Make as much money as you can. It really does help. I don't know why it's terrible to say, but it's true.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Money
  • Why
  • True

• Why do we have financial crises? Why do banks lose money? If history is any guide, it hasn't often been the result of speculative bets. It has been the result of banks making loans to individuals and businesses who can't pay them back.

  

  Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • Money
  • Why
  • History

• Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.

  

  Kathleen Norris
  • Money
  • Happiness
  • Secret