Norman Collie Quotes & Sayings

In free countries, every man is entitled to express his opinions and every other man is entitled not to listen. — J. Norman Collie

May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else
and usually it's reading his own handwriting. — J. Norman Collie

He lifted the telephone receiver and pressed it against the plastic of his helmet. If there had been a dialing sound he could have heard it through the conducting material. But, as he had expected, there was only silence. So - it was all a fake, though a fantastically careful one. And it was clearly not intended to deceive but rather - he hoped - to reassure. That was a very comforting thought; nevertheless he would not remove his suit until he had completed his voyage of exploration. — Arthur C. Clarke

Then shadows and shapes, shrouded figures, appeared to join him, apparitions, ancient, mythical faces, wise and beautiful, like holy ghosts, shimmering around around him, beside him, beyond him, enveloped by a brume indescribable, shot through with shafts of pink and blue and gold, as though the heavens themselves had opened up and poured out the light into the world. — Peter McKinnon

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence. — John Clayton

I remember, my first job when I got my working papers at 13 was as a vendor at Yankee Stadium - the old Yankee Stadium, with very steep stairs in the upper decks. It was all commission-based. And I think a soft drink was 25 cents, and I think you got a 10 percent or 11 percent commission. — Lloyd Blankfein

To make certain that crime does not pay, the government should take it over and try to run it. — J. Norman Collie

I have been working on two problems for three years: one of them for 8 or 9 years, and one of them for 3, 4, 5 years. — Whitfield Diffie

My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species. — Peter Diamandis

I advise, however, moderation in this task of setting goals, or else risk becoming tangled up in a Gordian knot of life's many disappointments. — Andrew Levkoff

Organic Chemistry has become a vast rubbish heap of puzzling and bewildering compounds. — J. Norman Collie

There is nothing to compare with that moment when you are bent over his knee and feel the material chaff against your bottom as he pulls your panties down. At that second, round cheeks revealed, plump and quivering, it is like jumping out of an airplane, pulling the ripcord and waiting for the parachute to open. — Chloe Thurlow

I can paint love and pain and honor and longing and any goddamn emotion you want to name. But saying it? Showing it? I'm not good at that, baby. — J. Kenner

I sometimes feel I would like to do crazy things with 'Endgame,' where someone says something, but the words, instead of being spoken, are written words projected out of their mouth. — Simon McBurney

I can get excitement watching rain on a puddle. And then I paint it. Now, I admit, there are not too many people who would find that exciting. But I would. And I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is. — David Hockney

For as Prometheus, (which interpreted, is, The Prudent Man,) was bound to the hill Caucasus, a place of large prospect, where, an Eagle feeding on his liver, devoured in the day, as much as was repaired in the night: So that man, which looks too far before him, in the care of future time, hath his heart all the day long, gnawed on by Fear of death, poverty, or other calamity; and has no repose, nor pause of his anxiety, but in sleep. — Thomas Hobbes

I get butterflies before I go out to say hello at a party. — Joan Rivers

The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere? — J. Norman Collie

Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother. — J. Norman Collie