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Woody Norris Quotes

It's embarrassing that we're in the 21st century and we don't even know what makes gravity work. I'm getting older and thinking maybe I should tackle more than the mundane. I may fail, but at least I will have tried.

Woody Norris

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: inventor
Nationality: american
Birth: 1938

Topics

Work Getting Older Thinking Know May

If you haven't heard my story, my mom is full Korean, and my dad is Caucasian. Kids in kindergarten would make fun of me for being Asian, and when you're that age, you don't know really how to process that; the way you take that is, 'Who I am isn't good enough.'

Joanna Gaines

Good Age I Am Fun Me Mom

Our motto is we respect and honour the pigness of the pig and the chickenness of the chicken. That means not confining them in a house with hundreds of others.

Joel Salatin

Respect Motto House Pig Chicken Our

Whenever you look at light, basically it's just air. It has no tactileness to it. It's totally without density.

Robert Irwin

Light You Look Air Without Just

You can stay true to yourself and your friends, you can do the right thing, you can do with your life whatever you want to. I think that's a lovely message.

Matthew Lewis

Life Yourself Do The Right Thing You

Obama invented himself against all odds and repeated parental abandonment, and he worked hard to regiment his emotions. But now that can come across as imperviousness and inflexibility. He wants to run the agenda; he doesn't want the agenda to run him. Once you become president, though, there's no way to predict what your crises will be.

Maureen Dowd

You Emotions Want Run Way Become

I grew up in Boston, so it's a nice change to be cold after living in California.

Matt LeBlanc

Change Cold Nice Living California

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Man Free Born Chains He Everywhere

More attention and thought goes into naming a character in 'Call Of Duty' than all the work that can go into certain movies. Blood and sweat and tears go into figuring out the names because they are so important. The call signs say a lot about you. The brotherhood that's evoked by the name is quite profound.

Stephen Gaghan

Work Character Tears Thought Name

Making people laugh is so much more difficult than making them sad. Too much fiction defaults to the somber, the tragic. This is because sad endings are easy in comparison - happy endings aren't at all simple to earn, especially when writing to an audience jaded by them.

Stephen Graham Jones

Sad Simple Happy People Writing

I call upon my God to judge me, he knows that I love my friends and above all others my wife and children, the, oppinion of the world to contrary notwithstanding.

Stand Watie

Love God Children Wife Me World

Mum told me stories about her time in the Women's Royal Navy, and about her dad, who had died before I was born - he'd been sent to Australia as a child, then joined the Australian Army in the First World War and fought at Gallipoli.

Tony Bradman

Women Time War Child Me World

I'd just like to prove to myself that I'm all here and all together and can get the best out of myself. I'd also like to prove that to a couple of other people.

Roy Harper

Myself Best Together People Prove