Nordine Quotes & Sayings

Children feel hounded by symbols they don't understand the need of, verbal demands that seem picayune, and rules and codes that call them away from their pleasure in the straightforward expression of their natural energies. And when they try to master the body, pretend it isn't there, act "like a little man," the body suddenly overwhelms them, submerges them in vomit or excrement-and the child breaks down in desperate tears over his melted pretense at being a purely symbolic animal. Often the child deliberately soils himself or continues to wet the bed, to protest against the imposition of artificial symbolic rules: he seems to be saying that the body is his primary reality and that he wants to remain in the simpler physical Eden and not be thrown out into the world of "right and wrong. — Ernest Becker

Factions are a sign of illness in a party. — Ernest Mandel

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens. — Alexis De Tocqueville

What a spineless thing I must be not to have one enemy! — L.M. Montgomery

The deepest and most sincere feeling I get is when I meet an artist and they have that steel in their eyes and they have that fire and that passion and all they want is to be a star and to hear themselves on the radio. — L.A. Reid

Radical surgery is never fun. — Brent Spiner

Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach. — David O. McKay

It is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too — Charles Dickens

Those shining stars, he liked to point out, were one of the special treats for people like us who lived out in the wilderness. Rich city folks, he'd say, lived in fancy apartments, but their air was so polluted they couldn't even see the stars. We'd have to be out of our minds to want to trade places with any of them. — Jeannette Walls

He'd never believed that power, in any shape or form, was anything more than the intemperate protrusion on the egomaniacal heart. Since all egomaniacs were insecure to their frightened cores, they this weilded "power" barbarically so the world would not find them out — Dennis Lehane

I found it extremely annoying when somebody would say something like "You seem to be influenced by Ken Nordine." And I didn't even know who Ken Nordine was. — Joe Frank

Weak people can be very stubborn. — Josephine Tey

That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity — Ambrose Bierce

In our concern for others, we worry less about ourselves. — Dalai Lama

Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page. — Stephen Vincent Benet

I respect my father as a father, but I also respect him as an honorable chairman. — Akio Toyoda