Norden Quotes

#1. [Norden] said, with the Mark 15 Norden bombsight, he could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel at 20,000 feet.

Malcolm Gladwell

#2. Everyone who appears in a scene gets paid.

Denis Norden

#3. A good romance novel is like a bubble bath...steamy, relaxing, and over way too soon.

Donna Marie Rogers

#4. If you are pleased with what you are, you have stopped already. If you say, "It is enough," you are lost. Keep on walking, moving forward, trying for the goal.

Saint Augustine

#5. Middle age is when, whenever you go on holiday, you pack a sweater.

Denis Norden

#6. There's an unseen force which lets birds know when you've just washed your car.

Denis Norden

#7. It's like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of it from you. Perhaps everything is not how it is, but how it's remembered.

Denis Norden

#8. Life is all but a dream we will soon wake up to and be 7 years old again

Kira Jeffries

#9. You know you're getting old when a four-letter word for something pleasurable two people can do in bed together is R-E-A-D.

Denis Norden

#10. What else does one obtain by realization of God? Does one grow two horns? No, the mind becomes pure, and through a pure mind one attains knowledge and awakening.

Sarada Devi

#11. And when you're on your own there is that terrifying possibility that you may be the only person on the planet who thinks it's funny - and you have no way of finding out.

Denis Norden

#12. Frank liked administrative work and was good at it.

Denis Norden

#13. I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny.

Denis Norden

#14. Then after that came word processors and it's hard to make those laugh.

Denis Norden

#15. Dictum on television scripts: We don't want it good - we want it Tuesday.

Denis Norden

#16. I don't know why people are so down on the Best Western. They have the best sweet potato fries I've ever had.

Carey Mulligan

#17. It's a funny kind of month, October. For the really keen cricket fan it's when you discover that your wife left you in May.

Denis Norden

#18. I personally believe this Agency has always been very dedicated and has always worked as hard as it possibly can to do things as safely and as effectively as possible.

Mark Kelly

#19. If all the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players, where do all the audiences come from?

Denis Norden

#20. If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it.

Denis Norden

#21. You shouldn't feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven't tasted, but for the one you are about to lose

Thucydides

#22. I defy anyone to get a decision that quickly these days.

Denis Norden

#23. The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.

Oscar Wilde

#24. And if you can offer an explanation as to why it doesn't work then you've got to the whole root of comedy.

Denis Norden

#25. The comedians all finished their acts with a song. They would get a certain amount of money from the song publishers and would use that money to pay the writers. None of them paid very much for their comedy material, but it all added up.

Denis Norden

#26. A counter tenor is anyone who can count to ten.

Denis Norden

#27. My whole body sings to be near him,because every movement he makes is charged with electricity.I often think of putting my arms around him or running my fingers along his lips.When I let my thoughts go there the sharp pain of unrequited love invites the migraine in.

E. Lockhart

#28. What is a harp but an oversized cheese slicer with cultural pretensions?

Denis Norden

#29. We ask for our daily crumb of love. We are given a ton for eternity, which is death.

Georges Perros

#30. The Cards lead the Dodgers 4-2 after one inning and that one hasn't even started.

Jerry Coleman

#31. Whoever accustoms himself to pass over in silence the faults of his neighbors shall meet with much better quarter from the world when he happens to fall into a mistake himself."14

Walter Isaacson

#32. Never Forget complexities and happiness are twin aspects of life.Live with them with love.

Rajesh Walecha

#33. None of us are perfect, and we all make mistakes. But the American people are a very forgiving people.

Michael Huffington