Norman Douglas Quotes

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Norman Douglas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HappinessYouBodyFindNothing

There's rarely a big hat. I think all those things are great, but I'm boring in that I just use sunscreen every day. I don't mess around. I put it on first thing. I have it on now, and I'm sitting inside.

Jennifer Garner

GreatDayHatThinkEvery DayNow

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

Robert Southey

LifeLiveLongYouFirstYears

Just remember: to be grateful and thank the people who are there and support you along the way is a great start to success.

Meryl Davis

SuccessGreatGratefulSupportStart

When we started in the early '60s, football had a little bit of a tradition. But, they didn't have a mythology. And NFL Films, through our music and our scripts and our photography, created a mythology for the sport.

Steve Sabol

MusicFootballPhotographyEarlyNFL

People spend so much time in their cars, and it's a legal way to have fun by speeding a little bit or testing yourself a little bit, and you get to invest in your car. For some people, it becomes their baby.

Jordana Brewster

CarTimeYourselfFunPeopleBaby

It quite often happens that they attach a name to a project and it doesn't get all the financing it needs.

Dougray Scott

NameProjectGetHappensNeeds

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

Dorothea Lange

TomorrowBlindCameraYouShould

Everywhere I go, people ask me about Jennifer Aniston's wedding. Everywhere I go. I always say to her, I'm like, 'Being friends with you is a burden. You think it's hard to be friends with me?'

Chelsea Handler

PeopleMeThinkWeddingFriendsYou

One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.

Chris Van Hollen

EducationObstaclesHigher Education

I've found that when you roll up your sleeves and join people in their daily work, they tend to open up quite a bit and let you know what they really think about the issues facing our country and what kind of job they think the government is doing.

Bob Beauprez

WorkDailyJobGovernmentPeople

We grew up in Texas. We ate fried chicken and steak all the time. I didn't eat sushi until I was 24.

Arden Cho

TimeTexasSushiChickenSteakEat

With my skin, I have to avoid direct contact with the sun, so that, combined with my mom being conservative, meant I grew up wearing stockings under shorts and long sleeves under tank tops. It was kind of embedded in me that I was supposed to be covering up.

Winnie Harlow

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