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Deborah Norville Quotes

I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.

Deborah Norville

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 8, 1958

Topics

Job Parents Roots Fly Think Grow

Every penny I've ever saved has been spent on airline tickets to different corners of the world.

World Penny Different Airline Been

You can see how he changed on the surface. But at the core of it all, I think Superman has remained the same - a character with incredible powers but almost superhuman humility and restraint.

Character Humility Think You See

It's better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.

John H. Johnson

Change Opportunity Smart People Mad

The essential principles of the three-dimensional structure of organic molecules had been correctly formulated by the first Nobel laureate in Chemistry, Jacobus van't Hoff, as early as 1874.

Early Principles Chemistry First

I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.

Life Failure Think You Need Point

I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.

Michael Crichton

Drawing Blood Emergency Surgery Saw

I don't have an assistant. I make a lot of people around me my slaves, but no assistant.

Shirley MacLaine

People Me Slaves Assistant Around

I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that.

Thought Despair Bottom Floors Few

If you listen to my tapes, you'd hear 14 different ways to arrange the rhythm guitar behind the harmony vocal, and then 14 different ways with a different vocal. You'd have to really be a music lover to sit through that and find it entertaining. I enjoy it, but I'm easy to please.

Music Guitar Enjoy Easy You Find

I was afraid that not even Merlin the Enchanter could transform me into a writer.

Lloyd Alexander

Me Afraid Transform Writer Even

You can't teach someone to be funny, but you can teach comic timing. If you listen to a good comic, you can learn how to put it on a page.

Christopher Moore

Funny Good Learn Someone You Timing

I'd been shouting and shouting and no-one wanted to hear me.

Me Shouting Been Hear Wanted No-One

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