J Frank Norris Quotes

#1. The function of the novelist ... is to comment upon life as he sees it.

Frank Norris

#2. To be wise means to be a teacher, means to be a soul winner. That's our business - That's our only business!

J. Frank Norris

#3. Prayer is the easiest and hardest of all things; the simplest and the sublimest; the weakest and the most powerful; its results lie outside the range of human possibilities-they are limited only by the omnipotence of God.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#4. The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Frank Norris

#5. Always blame conditions, not men

Frank Norris

#6. Carrie, sitting there over your coffee cup in a wasteland of worn-out silver wedding rings, feeding yourself confections of motherhood like the display cakes in the bakery where you worked- all trimming over cardboard.

Rita Mae Brown

#7. Wake up, Astrid. Your psychotic criminal is playing with knives. (Sasha)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#8. With iron and blood, it seems, and from the rich depths of the earth, John Griswold has fashioned a classic American novel, its dignified intonations of our young nation's sweat and tears evocative of the indelible storytelling of Dos Passos, Frank Norris, and Upton Sinclair.

Bob Shacochis

#9. No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.

Frank Norris

#10. I mean," I said, "it's not like the lake is a living thing." This was perhaps the worst thing I could have said. He looked suddenly alarmed. He put a hand, sticky as it was with gray sand, over my mouth. "Hush, darlin' girl! Hush! The lake hears your every word and knows your every thought.

Graham Joyce

#11. It would be better for me to die than to live.

Jonah

#12. Evil is short lived. Never judge of the whole round of life by the mere segment you can see. The whole is, in the end, perfect.

Frank Norris

#13. Redemption comes to those who wait, forgiveness is the key.

Tom Petty

#14. Things can happen in some cities and the tale of them will be interesting: the same story laid in another city would be ridiculous.

Frank Norris

#15. Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal.

Jacob Bronowski

#16. No one to love, none to caress, Left all alone in this world's wilderness.

Frank Norris

#17. Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frank Norris

#18. Another distinction between missional and maintenance mindsets is that a maintenance mindset tells the Lord what to do; a missional mindset does what the Lord says. Right

Jeffrey A. Johnson

#19. Do yourself what you wish others to do.

Ramakrishna

#20. Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Herbert Hoover

#21. [The Muse of our Fiction of the future] will lead you - if you are humble and honest with her - straight into a World of Working Men, crude of speech, swift of action, strong of passion, straight to the heart of a new life.

Frank Norris

#22. With Christ as your partner, there is no such thing as failure, only results.

Toni Sorenson

#23. Fancy a novel about Chicago or Buffalo, let us say, or Nashville, Tennessee! There are just three big cities in the United States that are 'story cities'- New York, of course, New Orleans, and, best of the lot, San Francisco.

Frank Norris

#24. It belonged to the changeless order of things---the man desiring the woman only for what she withholds; the woman worshipping the man for that which she yields up to him. With each concession gained the man's desire cools; with every surrender made the woman's adoration increases...

Frank Norris

#25. I never truckled. I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. I told them the truth. They liked it or they didn't like it. What had that to do with me? I told them the truth.

Frank Norris