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Norman Cousins Quotes

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: June 24, 1915 - November 30, 1990

Topics

Time Optimism Wait Facts Pessimism

When reporters are in the business of obtaining hard facts that service the free flow of information, journalists should have a right to obtain that information without fear of personal ruin or incarceration.

Fear Business Service Free Facts

Muslim Americans in general tend to be an underrepresented political group.

Political Group Muslim General Tend

We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself.

Myself Small Enjoy Two Sailing

I think there's a misconception, often times, I think society portrays truckers as people who can't get a better job or maybe uneducated, and I think that's a really unfair assessment.

Michelle Monaghan

Job People Society Think Better Get

I think I should be described as 'bi' - not bisexual, because I'm not - I'm gay - but 'binational' because I retain British nationality, and I add to it being Australian, which is like having your cake and eating it.

Miriam Margolyes

Cake Eating Think Gay British Being

The decisions you make affect a lot of people. You have investors, employees, and customers who all rely on you. Being a leader is a 24-hour-a-day job.

Leader Job People Employees You Who

The first time I heard the Mars Volta, I had a feeling I was experiencing something that people must have felt when they first heard Led Zeppelin. They have the same kind of power.

Power Time People Feeling Kind Mars

I have always just made things. I don't see what I make as being defined by a medium or aesthetic. It probably comes more from a fundamental restlessness, an attempt to create tools for questioning or understanding, and I have always been interested in using a wide spectrum of mediums to do this.

Aesthetic Tools Understanding Create

This deficit that we have threatens our very way of life, and everything needs to be on the table.

Life Table Way Everything Needs Our

I paid my dues; I certainly did.

Aretha Franklin

Paid Dues Did Certainly

I want to be clear: I do not view myself so much as the owner of Fulham but a custodian of the club on behalf of its fans.

Myself View Want Club Fans Clear

Having lived a full and stimulating life before I had my kids, I've relished every minute I've had to spend with them and felt a degree of confidence in dealing with their trials and tribulations to date.

Mariella Frostrup

Life Confidence Trials Degree Lived

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