Norman Wisdom Quotes

My only phobia is untidiness. My hair has to be neatly kept; my shoes are always clean. Everything has to be in a straight line, in its place.

Norman Wisdom

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ShoesHairPlaceCleanAlwaysLine

If there is any God, there is only one way to please him, and that is by a conscientious discharge of your obligations to your fellow men.

Robert Green Ingersoll

GodMenWayHimOnlyYour

Discipline is creating the situation.

Shunryu Suzuki

DisciplineSituationCreating

I can remember somebody once saying to me that they thought my life must be less real than these other people that they were writing about, which I found a very peculiar thing 'cos all our lives are equally real, and it's just a matter of depicting them and talking about them.

Ronald Frame

LifePeopleMeWritingSayingI Can

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

ExperienceLightsLampOnlyBears

I jog in the morning and then write for about two hours. There are times when I'm really excited and can't wait to get back to it. But there are days when I don't know what's coming next, and I really have to force it.

Louis Sachar

MorningWaitBackKnowWriteDays

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

Desiderius Erasmus

GreatHonorWealthSinWithout

And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.

Donald Norman

WorkExperienceJobYouWillNeed

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

Chinua Achebe

ExperienceLearnNothingOnlyThing

I like Bloomingdales, and I like a store called Scoop.

Chrisette Michele

LikeStoreScoop

My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.

Arthur Rock

FatherMotherGenerationImmigrant

You go to work, tape five shows in one day and then go home and play golf for the rest of the week and then start the week all over. I thought if something like that came along, I'd love to do that.

Wink Martindale

WorkLoveHomeDayStartRest

The word Chivalry is derived from the French cheval, a horse.

Thomas Bulfinch

HorseChivalryFrenchWordDerived

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