Comedian Norm Crosby Quotes & Sayings

Truth is freedom. Freedom is truth. — Teri Terry

There's a difference between preferring books to parties and preferring sixteen cats to seeing the light of day. — Lauren Morrill

Knowing is the easy part; saying it out loud is the hard part. — Nicholas Evans

It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story. — Richard Flanagan

There was once a poor shoemaker who had three fine strong sons and two pretty daughters and a third who could do nothing well, who shivered plates and tangled her spinning, who curdled milk, could not get butter to come, nor set a fire so that smoke did not pour into the room, a useless, hopeless, dreaming daughter, to whom her mother would often say that she should try to fend for herself in the wild wood, and then she would know the value of listening to advice, and of doing things properly. And this filled the perverse daughter with a great desire to go even a little way into the wild wood, where there were no plates and no stitching, but might well be a need of such things as she knew she had it in herself to perform ... — A.S. Byatt

Thus there are two reasons why you must be content with what happens to you: first because it was for you it came to pass, for you it was ordered and to you it was related, a thread of destiny stretching back to the most ancient causes; secondly because that which has come to each individually is a cause of the welfare and the completion in very truth of the actual continuance of that which governs the Whole. — Marcus Aurelius

It is entirely unacceptable that I should have no voice in the political affairs of my own country, for I am not a ward of America; I am one of the first Americans to arrive on these shores. — James Baldwin

What I admire most in men - To sit opposite a mirror at dinner and not look in it — Richard Harding Davis