Andre Norton Quotes

He was listening, too, for it is through the eyes and ears that one learns. A spiderweb of facts can tie up the lion of action; not to know is bad; not to strive to know is worse.

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• In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Long
  • Country
  • High

• Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our public life. And the king, as the head of state, must not only be an example but also a servant to that just and legitimate demand of the citizens.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Life
  • Good
  • Today

• Work is the thing that happens around the game time.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • Time
  • Work
  • Game

• I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Together
  • Struggle
  • Feel

• I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Hate
  • Animals
  • Loss

• By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Country
  • Want

• I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Music
  • God
  • Trying

• The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Should
  • Grandparents
  • Grandchildren

• A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Losing

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Travel
  • Map
  • iPhone

• When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • War
  • Government
  • Group

• Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Money
  • Me

• So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Art
  • America
  • High

• Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Strong
  • Government
  • China

• 'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Sleep
  • Study
  • Curiosity

• Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Real
  • Power

• The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

  

  Scotty McCreery

• Then of the Thee in Me works behind The Veil, I lifted up my hands to find A Lamp amid the Darkness; and I heard, As from Without - 'The Me Within Thee Blind!'

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Up

• When the mood takes me, I like to be a man of action. I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better!

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Action
  • Mood

• One of our targets as a country is to now work very closely with the Commonwealth countries - they could become a very big market for us.

  

  Lynn Davies
  • Work
  • Country

• For any actor, when you're playing twin brothers, you have to be able to find the similarities between them as well as creating a difference between the two characters. If they just looked the same, what would the point of that be?

  

  Efren Ramirez
  • Twin

• He was listening, too, for it is through the eyes and ears that one learns. A spiderweb of facts can tie up the lion of action; not to know is bad; not to strive to know is worse.

  

  Andre Norton
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