Norman Douglas Quotes

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

Norman Douglas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: December 8, 1868 - February 7, 1952

Topics

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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

John D. Rockefeller

CoffeeSunPeopleSugarWillMore

I loved playing the part of the feisty Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker.

Mercedes McCambridge

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My fashion has no time, no season. It doesn't go out of style. If someone decides that clothes can go out of fashion, then you are deciding a woman can go out of fashion.

Sonia Rykiel

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I don't believe in pretending to be someone else. I'm what I actually am in real life. For instance, like any normal girl, I fight with my mother. I mean, it is just fine. In fact, I fight daily with my mother.

Shreya Ghoshal

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I believe in just enriching the economy. And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet.

Robert Ballard

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I just toured around looking for fractals, and when I found something that had a scaling geometry, I would ask the folks what was going on - why they had made it that way.

Ron Eglash

LookingWhyWayAskGeometryGoing

We must reject the easy impulses of bitterness and rancor and embrace the difficult work, but the important work, the vital work of finding a path forward together.

Loretta Lynch

WorkPathTogetherForwardFinding

I look a little bit like Barbie and talk a little bit like Ken. It's easier for me to sit in the middle of the boys' club than to be surrounded by people concerned about getting their hair and nails done.

Diane Farr

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I can't retire. My readers won't let me.

Clive Cussler

MeRetireReaders

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

Alice Walker

HomeNeverOwnOnlyYourExcept

'Morning Star' is the light that many sailors would use to guide them. But it's also referenced twice in the Bible - once for Lucifer and once for Jesus.

Pierce Brown

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The pain of loneliness seems to be part of the mortal experience. But the Lord in His mercy has made it so that we need never deal with the challenges of mortality alone.

Sheri L. Dew

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