Norman Parkinson Quotes

I like to make people look as good as they'd like to look, and with luck, a shade better.

Norman Parkinson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: photographer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: April 21, 1913 - February 15, 1990

Topics

GoodPeopleLuckBetterLookShade

I'm pretty boring, as it turns out.

Joe Kennedy III

BoringOutPrettyTurns

Ironing is a great diversion from the reality you don't want to face.

Melissa McBride

GreatFaceRealityYouWantIroning

Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.

Angela Lansbury

MysterySomethingMostEverybody

If your characters are two-dimensional and your plot uncompelling, it won't matter how incredibly detailed and believable your fantasy world might be.

Tony Bradman

WorldFantasyMatterYourPlotHow

You're never a loser until you quit trying.

Mike Ditka

LoserTryingYouQuitNeverUntil

I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful.

Michael Shermer

NatureScienceReligionSelfishYou

I love to teach, especially high school-aged students, because I like introducing them to the absolute basics of everything they're ever going to learn, the things I wish I had learned at that age. It's the stuff you can always go back to in terms of absolute fundamentals.

Josh Cooke

LoveAgeLearnWishYouBack

Magic is something that happens that appears to be impossible. What I call 'illusion magic' uses laws of science and nature that are already known. Real magic uses laws that haven't yet been discovered.

Doug Henning

NatureScienceImpossibleMagicReal

Other people gotta be told when to go to the gym, what to work out, what to work on, what to do. For me, it was always my own self-motivation of maybe just wanting to make it out of Compton. I was like that with everything in my life.

DeMar DeRozan

LifeWorkPeopleMeMy LifeGym

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

Brandon T. Jackson

JobComedyDoingDeskWillNever

I take them seriously but I try not to read them. I take them personally, that's why I don't read them. I think people are lying when they say they don't care, that's not true. I take them personally.

Antoine Fuqua

PeopleThinkCareSeriouslyTrue

I think anytime you're writing to the middle grades, you're writing to young readers who are trapped in a number of ways between two worlds: between childhood and adulthood, between their friends and their parents.

Rick Riordan

ChildhoodParentsWritingThinkYou

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