Norah Vincent Quotes

#1. Most important, for openers, work six hours a day, seven days a week for six years. Then if you like it you can get serious about it.

Alex Katz

#2. There's a big difference between tolerance and approval, and I have no right to expect or demand the latter from anyone.

Norah Vincent

#3. That's one thing about me, and I think that's what most of my fans enjoy about me, that I don't hold nothing back. I do exactly what I want to do, and say exactly what I want to say.

Lil' Wayne

#4. Happiness is not a reward. It's a consequence. You have to work at it every day.

Norah Vincent

#5. There is a time in a boy's life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.

Norah Vincent

#6. I'd been at the mercy of a prick on a power trip, the kind of buttoned-up bantam rooster who gets off on control and then, when you resist him, tells you that you've got issues with control.

Norah Vincent

#7. Is this level of athletic competition the ultimate distraction from real life? Or is it a form of prayer?

Norah Vincent

#8. I don't believe in being typecast. If I believed it, it probably would have happened to me. You attract what you make.

Carrie-Anne Moss

#9. The impending separation from love, more than the ending of life, had kept all that faith alive. It was the hope of having a little more time to love that had made her mother hold crosses, and look to the faces of statues, and cast words up into the air.

J.R. Ward

#10. You want to be happy? You want to be well? Then put your boots on.

Norah Vincent

#11. That was the crux. You. Only you could work on you. Nobody could force you, and if you weren't ready, then you weren't ready, and no amount of open-armed encouragement was going to change that.

Norah Vincent

#12. Gratification kills desire. And constant gratification kills it permanently

Norah Vincent

#13. I was never mean to him, but I participated heartily when the guys teased him.

Norah Vincent

#14. The stories on 'The Cosby Show' transcend time.

Keshia Knight Pulliam

#15. People see weakness in a woman and they want to help. They see weakness in a man and they want to stamp it out

Norah Vincent

#16. I freed thousands of slaves, and could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves.

Harriet Tubman

#17. A little hope, a little kindness,
can bring joy and dissolve sadness.

Debasish Mridha

#18. This will sound strange, and yet I'm sure it was the point: it was a bit like being high. That, for me, anyway, had always been the attraction of drugs, to stop the brutal round of hypercritical thinking, to escape the ravages of an unoccupied mind cannibalizing itself.

Norah Vincent

#19. It was the woman's job to be on the defensive, because past experience had taught her to be. It was the guy's job to be on the offensive, because he had no choice. It was that or never meet at all.

Norah Vincent

#20. I could live alone forever if I just had a view of the sea.

Norah Vincent

#21. We run things, things don't run we.

Miley Cyrus

#22. Every one who understands the subject will agree that even the basis on which the scientific explanation of nature rests is intelligible only to those who have learned at least the elements of the differential and integral calculus, as well as analytical geometry.

Felix Klein

#23. History teaches us
that men and nations
only behave wisely
once they have exhausted
all other alternatives.

Abba Eban

#24. They would have all the same stressors still in place, and they would have no means of lessening them, because, their will, if they had amassed any in their time away, was still weak and always a quick casualty. No match for the horrors of lost chances.

Norah Vincent

#25. When God created the world, he didn't draw a line between Canada and America.

Marianne Williamson

#26. He could put up a gruff front and he was no angel, but he was really just trying to hide his sensitivities so that he could hang on to them.

Norah Vincent

#27. There is a whole hell of a lot of knowledge about the (expletive removed) human condition that we are not ready for.

Norah Vincent

#28. I really like being a woman ... I like it more now because I think it's more of a privilege.

Norah Vincent