Dessard Norris Quotes

#1. Always be nice to secretaries. They are the real gatekeepers in the world.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

#2. Us in the graveyard, we wants you to stay alive. We wants you to surprise us and disappoint us and impress us and amaze us.

Neil Gaiman

#3. We [women] have borne and bred and washed and taught, perhaps to the age of six or seven years, the one thousand six hundred and twenty-three million human beings who are, according to statistics, at present in existence, and that ... takes time.

Virginia Woolf

#4. I find the best things are done for yourself or start as a small project and become a big thing.

Tom Lenk

#5. There is no such thing as pure, unalloyed pleasure; some bitter ever mingles with the sweet.

Ovid

#6. What of October, that ambiguous month, the month of tension, the unendurable month?

Doris Lessing

#7. If there were an honorable way to get rich, I'd do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn't an honorable way, so I just do what I like.

Confucius

#8. The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.

Muhammad Ali

#9. There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#10. He wasn't mad, he was sad.

Lionel Shriver

#11. Perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.

Salman Rushdie

#12. There is something maddening about mediocrity that calls forth the worst in those who are forced to deal with it.

Moss Hart

#13. Why did everything beautiful come from pain?

Leah Raeder