Norford Family Crest Quotes & Sayings

Whether the vessel is a legal document or a rap song, language is often chosen ot exclude. To use a scholarly phrase, "discourse communities" are often gated,so it's the good writer's job to offer readers a set of keys. — Roy Peter Clark

Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions. — Louis Pasteur

I'm not a network executive, but it seems to be a time when networks take more of a gamble with higher-concept shows. And so, it's fun to be on something that's original, that's finding viewership, that's finding a great audience, and really distinguishing itself. Summer's a great place to do that. — James Wolk

The Germans were much more graphical. The expressionism is much more than cinema. It was a movement with artists, painters, music and architecture, so it's really graphic and visual. And the French were something else. — Michel Hazanavicius

If I didn't have a scholarship to go to the University of Florida or any school, I probably would have considered the military because my family could not afford to send me to college. — Emmitt Smith

Either one fails in one's art or in one's life. — Anais Nin

Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

People don't know the past, even though we live in literate societies, because they don't trust the sources of the past. — Daniel Pauly

Daja: "He and Rosethorn work together? They hate each other."
Lark: "I didn't say they liked it.
- Daja and Lark referring to Rosethorn and Crane's cooperation on finding the cures for new diseases — Tamora Pierce

In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century. — William Gibson

To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. — Confucius

Focus on you, satisfy your needs and leave all the nasty thoughts out of your life — A.A. Schenna

Who grins in official circumstances? — Vladimir Nabokov

We choose our leaders, political or spiritual, out of our own confusion, and so they also are confused. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life. — Ralph Fiennes