Normanni Quotes & Sayings

Cinderella was the first fairy tale I remember - the one I was most obsessed with because of the gowns and magic and pretty shoes. Yes, her home life was less than ideal - and considering the talking mice and birds, she probably needed serious therapy. — Cindi Madsen

When I was a child, she'd have me wash the lettuce ten times or open walnuts by hand to make a cake. I was like, 'Mom, this is ridiculous.' But now? I run my kitchen the same way. — Daniel Humm

There was a time when the United States government earned the trust of its people. There was a time when most people believed that the United States government was protecting them. — Rush Limbaugh

We are not permitted to linger, even with what is most intimate. From images that are full, the spirit plunges on to others that suddenly must be filled; there are no lakes till eternity. Here, falling is best. To fall from the mastered emotion into the guessed-at, and onward. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Humans seem to have an innate drive to master other creatures. — Paul Greenberg

The trick is to be grateful for our good moods and graceful in our low moods
not taking them too seriously. — Richard Carlson

When I work in San Francisco doing stand-up, I usually schedule it for July, and we'll drive up the coast and camp in Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Big Sur, and we'll just camp our way up the coast, and then we'll get to San Francisco and hang out there for four days. — Greg Fitzsimmons

You ask me how, with so much study, I manage to retene my health ... Morpheous is my last companion ; without 8 or 9 hours of him yr correspondent is not worth one scavenger's peruke. My practices did at ye first hurt my stomach, but now I eat heartily enou' as y' will see when I come down beside you. [On the value of sleep, and harm of eating poorly while intent on study.] — Isaac Newton

Don't ask 'Why', ask instead, 'Why not'. — John F. Kennedy

No one knows the dead world? Only the dead spirits? — Lailah Gifty Akita

God gives not kings the stile of Gods in vaine,
For on his throne his sceptre do they sway;
And as their subjects ought them to obey,
So kings should feare and serve their God againe. — King James I

Radical transformation of society requires personal and spiritual change first or at least simultaneously — Sulak Sivaraksa

My only armor is my belief that life has meaning and that, when my last sun has set and my last moon has risen, when the dawn comes that marks the moment when I am born with the dead, there will be mercy. — Dean Koontz

We don't catch hold of an idea, rather the idea catches hold of us and enslaves us and whips us into the arena so that we, forced to be gladiators, fight for it. — Anna Funder