George W. Norris Quotes

Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

George W. Norris

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• I want to stop transforming and just start being.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Want
  • Stop
  • Start

• We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Him
  • Worth
  • Worth It

• If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Writing
  • Energy
  • Hand

• I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Value
  • Like
  • Simplicity

• Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Luxury

• Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Book
  • House
  • Man

• My father was a military attache, so I've been traveling all my life.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Life
  • Father
  • Military

• I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • School
  • Think
  • Training

• That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • People
  • World
  • Fame

• Donald has a very unfortunate habit. When he gets scared, he lashes out... And he insults and attacks whoever is standing near him... Donald does seem to have an issue with women... Donald doesn't like strong women. Strong women scare Donald.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Habit

• Since the form is only an expression of the content and the content is different with different artists, it is then clear that there can be many different forms at the same time which are equally good. Necessity creates the form. Fish which live at great depths have no eyes. The elephant has a trunk. The chameleon changes its color, and so forth.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• And that, my young friends, is the story of our country, one invader after another. Macedonians. Sassanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we're like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing.

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • Up
  • Country
  • Friends

• Collige, virgo, rosas, dum flos novus et nova pubes,et memor esto aevum sic properare tuum.

  

  Ausonius
  • Virgo

• This is something you can never erase. It leaves a scar on you.

  

  Ai Weiwei

• I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album.

  

  Bruce Cockburn
  • Up
  • Different
  • Writing

• The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located.

  

  Donald Knuth
  • Important
  • Kitchen

• I'm happy to work when I've worked, and you've got to take the hard times with the good times. But there are times where I'm not as financially set as one might assume. So you have concerns about, 'Wow, I have this level of notoriety and... I better get a job.'

  

  David Eigenberg
  • Good
  • Work
  • Job

• I think Halle Berry is one of the most beautiful women on the planet.

  

  Brooke Burke
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• To hell with facts! We need stories!

  

  Ken Kesey

• When I was five, I compound-fractured my arm, pulverising my elbow.

  

  Mary H.K. Choi

• Our minds are mysterious; our conscious brain is like a ship on a sea that is obscure to us.

  

  Meghan O'Rourke
  • Brain
  • Sea
  • Mysterious

• The administration does not agree with those who suggest we should deploy hundreds of thousands of American troops to engage militarily in a ground war in Iraq.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • American
  • War
  • Iraq

• I believe the only way to break the power of materialism is first, to see ourselves as stewards that God has entrusted these money and possessions to, and second, to give. Jesus says, "It is more blessed to give than to receive". As long as I still have something, I believe I own it. But when I give it away, I relinquish the control, power, and prestige that come with wealth.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Way

• Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

  

  George W. Norris
  • Men
  • Judgment
  • Interests