Norman Wisdom Quotes

You see I'm semi-retired now and don't work all the time, only most of it!

Norman Wisdom

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: comedian
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: February 4, 1915 - October 4, 2010

Topics

WorkTimeYouNowSeeOnly

Real emotion is good - or doing a good job of faking real emotion.

Jimmy Kimmel

GoodJobDoingEmotionRealFaking

The greenness of Ireland is a false greenness, after all. Not that it isn't green - the place can still make you have to pull off and swallow one of your heart pills. It's that the greenness doesn't mean what it seems. It doesn't encode a pastoral past, much less a timeless vale where wee folk trip the demesne.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

HeartPastGreenYouPlaceMean

Actually, I find it embarrassing being a pop star. I prefer it when people just treat me like anybody else, although occasionally there is a side of me, which is indulgent and I expect certain things because of my position. It's one of the perks.

Michael Hutchence

PeopleMeTreatFindSideStar

It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak.

Michael Bolton

SpeakUnderstandingMomentsIntention

It took me too long to realise that if you go to a marriage counsellor to resolve problems, it's in his interest to keep the marriage going.

Michael Douglas

MarriageMeProblemsLongYouGo

When the ambassadors of other foreign countries come to Japan to make treaties, they can be told that such and such a treaty has been made with the ambassador of the United States, and they will rest satisfied with this.

Townsend Harris

RestWillSatisfiedAmbassadorBeen

Regular people laugh harder. Industry people are stuffy, very judgmental.

Tony Rock

PeopleLaughJudgmentalIndustry

I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well.

Tom Ford

PersonalityPerfectionMeStriving

There are some women I definitely would not want to succeed me... but a man like David Souter, that would be great.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

WomenGreatManMeSucceedWant

Every religious group, while perhaps a majority somewhere, is also inevitably a minority somewhere else. Thus, religious organizations should and do show tolerance toward members of other religious denominations.

Russell M. Nelson

ToleranceGroupMinoritySomewhere

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

Milton Glaser

ControlDesignYouMasterWhatever

It's a really exciting thing to collaborate with production designers, cinematographers and gaffers and costume designers and editors and composers.

Jason Bateman

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