Kaplan Norton Quotes & Sayings

How many times do you let someone hurt you in the same way," she asked him, "before you become the asshole who keeps allowing it? — Brenda Novak

In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange. — Tracy Kidder

to order and that whole inner debate one usually has when ordering food at a restaurant would be vocalized and performed for the express purpose of filling space, of jamming the silence so full of meaningless idle chitchat that they'd never get around to talking about the thing they never talked about but were always thinking: that if they had been born into a generation that found divorce more acceptable, they would have left each other so long ago. For decades they had avoided this subject. It was like they'd come to an agreement - they were who they were, they were born when they were born, they were taught that divorce was wrong, and they openly disapproved of other couples, younger couples, who divorced, while secretly feeling bolts of envy at these couples' ability to split and remarry and become happy again. — Nathan Hill

Give me an army saying the Rosary and I will conquer the world. — Pope Pius IX

I don't see why I can't have friends of both sexes without wild rumors being circulated. It's crazy. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Mythos is the sum total of the early historic and prehistoric myths which preceded the logos. The mythos includes not only the Greek myths but the Old Testament, the Vedic Hymns and the early legends of all cultures which have contributed to our present world understanding. — Robert M. Pirsig

As if we'd have sex in a cave surrounded by hordes of demons. This is reality, not your fevered imagination. — Cassandra Clare

As a person navigating the waters of public scrutiny, you are often unable to hold on to personal heroes or villains. Inevitably you will meet your hero, and he may turn out to be less than impressive, while your villain turns out to be the coolest cat you've ever met. — Rob Lowe

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout 'Bang!' — George Will

I, personally, have had to rise above my feelings of inferiority to my sister Anjelica, not to mention feeling sorry for myself because I lost my mother so young. — Allegra Huston

No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace. — H.P. Lovecraft

When aristocrats pretend they're common people
they get common! — August Strindberg