Top 100 Norma Quotes
#1. I see now that when Norma flowered in our garden I became a weed, allowed to exist only where I would not be seen, in corners and dark places.
Daniel Keyes
#2. Norma Bates is insanely crazy, but you can't help but love her.
Taissa Farmiga
#3. You no longer need to fly a World War II aircraft in an age of jet fighters, and you no longer need to weigh yourself against a non-existent Norma.
Todd Rose
#4. All that time hanging around the sets, watching Norma Shearer make the most of her three expressions, was a help.
Joan Crawford
#5. He had a nice house in the Norma Triangle section of West Hollywood and an ass that could stop a war.
Christopher Rice
#6. Even Juan laughed then. Everyone laughed. And suddenly the bus was not full of strangers. Some chemical association was formed. Norma laughed hysterically. All the tension of the morning came out in her laughter.
John Steinbeck
#7. I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.
Gloria Swanson
#8. I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.
Marilyn Monroe
#9. Later that evening, Norma Jeane said good night to Bill and returned home. Standing before a mirror she picked up a lipstick and scribbled, 'This is the end of Norma Jeane.' Marilyn Monroe was born.
Michelle Morgan Spady
#10. just before Todd leaves for Greeley. These stomach pains also graduate to violent fevers to where he would be freezing and sweltering at the same time. Norma, a family friend, is looking after Colton at her home while Sonja is teaching a class at Imperial
Omar Elbaga
#11. If you can look back at your entire life and at the end of the day and say, 'You know? My life was good. I'm pleased with how it all turned out . . . and if I could do it all over again, I'd be happy to' - those people have integrity," Norma told her students.
Erika Hayasaki
#12. He loved getting crucified at the summer and winter solstices," Norma told Harry. Norma listened while the invisible presence added something to this. "He says you should try it, Harry. A crucifixion and a good blow job. Heaven on Earth.
Clive Barker
#13. It didn't help that Norma had all the girlish charm of a boulder
Amy Stewart
#14. A news event in 1995 shocked both sides in the culture war controversy. Norma Leah McCorvey, the "Jane Roe" in the famous Supreme Court case of 1973, converted to Christ, got baptized, and joined the pro-life campaign.
Philip Yancey
#15. I have always been attracted to clothes designed by women. Coco Chanel, Vionnet, Norma Kamali, Donna Karan. They have a little more - how do I put it? - understanding.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#16. There was a saying around MGM: "Norma Shearer got the productions, Greta Garbo supplied the art, and Joan Crawford made the money to pay for both".
Joan Crawford
#17. Lucille," Norma Jean whispered loud enough for me to hear from my foliage hideout. She leaned over her walker and adjusted her glasses. "Is that Willis Harvey up front by Elsa?"
"Well, pinch my pooch, I believe it is," Lucille said. "I barely recognize him with his clothes on.
Ann Charles
#18. Right now I'm just thinking about school and trying to get those grades and keep them up! In case I become a Norma Desmond when I grow up, I can have something to fall back on!
Anna Chlumsky
#19. Unyielding - Oh Norma Jeane leads a crazy life, you see - she has a former husband very jealous of her - he is her "ex" but he is
Joyce Carol Oates
#20. I haven't watched anything I've been in since I've done it. I have never put in a movie at home that I've been in. Why? I don't know. I would feel like Norma Desmond. And I have a kid, so time is at a premium.
Helen Hunt
#21. I wrote a novel called 'Blonde,' which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe, which I called a fictitious biography. That uses the material as if it were myth - that Marilyn Monroe is like this mythical figure in our culture.
Joyce Carol Oates
#22. Goodbye Norma Jean From the young man in the 22nd row Who sees you as something more than sexual More than just our Marilyn Monroe
Elton John
#23. How do we define "normal?" Quite literally it comes from the Latin norma meaning "carpenter's square." Straight. And "abnormal?" That's from the Greek anomalos, and the Latin abnormis meaning "monstrosity.
Matt Fraction
#24. I never had a favourite book! I liked all kinds of things - science fiction, so I read Heinlen and Ray Bradbury, and I also liked reading about kids like myself, so I read Judy Blume and Norma Klein and Paula Danzinger and a lot of other writers. I also read James Herriot!
Rebecca Stead
#25. Is it norma to regert not making a sex tape back when you were younger and your boobs pointed vaguely at the ceiling when you were lying on your back? Because I feel like no one ever talks about that.
- Furiously Happy
Jenny Lawson
#26. I felt like they only cared about what I could do for them, not what they could do for me.
Norma McCorvey
#27. I looked at a fetal development chart at the Operation Rescue Office in Dallas. I had a lot of emotions stirring up inside of me. That's when I decided that it was wrong in any stage of pregnancy.
Norma McCorvey
#28. All the inane, meaningless noises people make that pass for intelligent conversation. They might as well be pigs grunting in the pen. (92)
Norma Fox Mazer
#29. That night, stargazing on the deck with Dad, eyes on the sky, he pointed out Orion, Betelgeuse. "It's an art to read the stars, baby."
I never wanted to leave his side-my sure song for so long. Now? His eyes are stone changed. Just looking at them hurts my heart.
Norma Fox Mazer
#30. Somehow or other I always got myself rigged up in something sensational.
Norma Shearer
#31. I don't think there is a good reason for an abortion, but Dr. Jasper made me really realize it was just a racket. He was just doing it for the money. He didn't care about the women.
Norma McCorvey
#32. It doesn't make any difference what religion you are, or how young you are or how old you are-if they go to these abortion mills and stand there and pray-that would make a lot of difference.
Norma McCorvey
#33. Taste is an evolution and refinement of one's personal likes and dislikes. This evolution takes place with a constant curiosity and interest in everything. The editing consequently refines the choices and defines taste.
Norma Kamali
#34. When I was a child, my grandmother used to mix a paste for me of flour and water. Then I would go out into the yard and pick grass and make drawings out of pencil and grass pasted to the paper.
Norma Cole
#35. This is the paradoxical responsibility of the reader: to replenish the strangeness of the novel by making connections with the familiar.
Norma Field
#36. An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.
Norma Shearer
#37. I used the name Jane Roe because I didn't want my personal name to be involved in it.
Norma McCorvey
#38. When you pray do so correctly following the TAP routine: T is to first Thank God, A is to ask kindly for whatever you need and P is to praise Him simply by saying, "You are the best and the greatest.
Norma Ayuso
#39. It's not your body, it's not your choice, because you got that from God. He gave that to you.
Norma McCorvey
#40. A woman today is good, or she is bad, according to the way she does a thing - and not because of the thing itself.
Norma Shearer
#41. I deeply regret the damage my original case caused women. I want the Supreme Court to examine the evidence and have a spirit of justice for women and children.
Norma McCorvey
#42. When you discover there's no peace without Him, you'll find God there waiting for you.
Norma Gail
#44. True love can't exist without trust.
Norma Gail
#45. We live in a society today where these children can be wanted children. Even if you don't want to keep this child after you've had it, there's plenty of young couples out there, that want children.
Norma McCorvey
#46. Scarlett O'Hara is going to be a thankless and difficult role. The part I'd like to play is Rhett Butler.
Norma Shearer
#47. Demonstrate love in everything you do; as you grow old, the love you've shown to others will be directed towards you.
Norma Budden
#48. I've got so much to do, I don't have time to sit down and be sad.
Norma McCorvey
#49. If they don't care about me, how can they possibly care about anyone else?
Norma McCorvey
#50. I've seen the devastating effects of acting before seeking God's will.
Norma Gail
#51. Father God, we just ask You to open Your wide, wide arms and look down upon us, Lord, and lead us, and let us know what we should do to stop this, this terrible, terrible holocaust.
Norma McCorvey
#52. Now, we're just imitating and imitating and imitating what we've done before. The real revolution on how we make clothes and how we wear clothes is about to come. I don't know if we should be afraid or not. That's when we're going to see a Steve Jobs in the industry.
Norma Kamali
#53. [I]f you don't believe all of God's word, you don't truly believe.
Norma Gail
#54. My case was wrongfully decided, and has caused great harm to the women and children of our nation.
Norma McCorvey
#55. Sometimes the greatest blessings come when we leave the familiar behind and take a step of faith.
Norma Gail
#56. a good idea is only good if there
is a well-thought-out plan to
make it a reality.
Norma Kamali
#58. A piece of writing takes exactly as long as it needs to be done right.
Norma Fox Mazer
#59. The only person who should have control over your life is God. You're not super woman. Sometimes you have to put the oxygen mask on yourself before you can save anybody else.
Norma Jarrett
#60. Never let them see you in public after you've turned thirty-five. You're finished if you do!
Norma Shearer
#61. If God wills, He'll resolve it, if not, then there's a better plan...
Norma Gail
#62. Friendship ... is like pain. Explaining it is impossible.
Norma Fox Mazer
#63. I always chose sophisticated parts because you can't really be interesting as a young girl or outstanding as an ingenue.
Norma Shearer
#64. I'm the computer operator for Operation Rescue National.
Norma McCorvey
#65. Never in our silent moments of illusion do we sense the dark parallel that lives next to us. Nor do we suspect the carrier.
Kris Courtney
#66. We're always in danger of going over the edge unless we stay at the center of God's will.
Norma Gail
#67. I really didn't know there was two sides to the abortion issue.
Norma McCorvey
#68. No gains are ever achieved without first taking the risk of trying.
Norma Gail
#70. Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.
Norma Shearer
#71. After what God has done in my life, I will be only what it pleases Him to make me.
Norma Gail
#72. Patients would come in and say, Well, my baby is going to have a cleft palate. I'm going like, that's not a reason. And the doctor would do the abortion.
Norma McCorvey
#73. My dear girl, don't talk nonsense to me! You're lazy, that's all that's wrong with you. Why don't you take up social work?
Georgette Heyer
#74. They tried to discredit me. I used to tell them, There's many wonderful people out there who can't have children, who would want to have these children.
Norma McCorvey
#75. He told you not to cry, but tears keep leaking out of your eyes. And you're glad, because those tears belong to you. They're yours. Your tears. He can't have them. He can't touch them. They're all yours. (182)
Norma Fox Mazer
#76. [T]he single answer to the 'whys' in life is God's sovereignty.
Norma Gail
#77. Pain is a reminder that God has not forgotten us. He cares enough to allow us to experience in a small way what He suffered, so we can be more grateful.
Norma Gail
#78. There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion.
Norma McCorvey
#79. You read about me in history books, but now I am dedicated to spreading the truth about preserving the dignity of all human life from natural conception to natural death.
Norma McCorvey
#80. But Sarah Weddingtonhad never told me that what I was signing would allow women to use abortions as a form of birth control. We talked about truly desperate and needy women, not women already wearing maternity clothes,
Norma McCorvey
#81. I think it's safe to say that the entire abortion industry is based on a lie ... . I am dedicated to spending the rest of my life undoing the law that bears my name,
Norma McCorvey
#82. They could have been nice to me instead of treating me like an idiot.
Norma McCorvey
#83. I guess, really thinking about it, I always assumed when you missed someone , it was tangible ... something real you could grab and hold on to, but it's a not-there feeling.
Norma Fox Mazer
#84. If He leaves you with no one and nothing, you still have God, and therefore, you have hope.
Norma Gail
#85. God never says the safe and familiar is His best.
Norma Gail
#86. The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.
Norma Shearer
#87. Instead of helping women in Roe v. Wade, I brought destruction to me & millions of women.
Norma McCorvey
#88. The abortionist I worked for, he's a very greedy man, a selfish man.
Norma McCorvey
#89. True love never asks us to compromise...
Norma Gail
#90. I'm a man. I don't do conversation well, but I do my best to show you every day what you mean to me. If I'm not doin' that right, you need to tell me. I'll do better. But don't fuckin' question how I feel about you. I feel nothing unless I'm with you. You give me life.
Norma Jeanne Karlsson
#91. Pleasant words are a honeycomb;
Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones. (Proverbs 16:24)
Norma Vaughn Danzey
#92. I was the Jane Roe of Roe vs. Wade, but Jane Roe has been laid to rest.
Norma McCorvey
#93. It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.
Norma Shearer
#94. I don't hate them any more like I used to. I just don't like them very much.
Norma McCorvey
#95. It was a mutual thing. I made a deal with them: I asked them if they did not bring out the place card of Malachi, I would let them have two minutes with each one of my patients.
Norma McCorvey
#96. Keeping children secure and comfortable at night contributes toward a lifetime of easy sleep for them, an objective worthy of the weariness you may feel now.
Norma Jane Bumgarner
#97. Dr. Jasper didn't care if they got their checkups, their medications.
Norma McCorvey
#98. May my weakness not drive me to my knees in despair, but raise me up to You, Lord.
Norma Gail
#99. I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.
Norma Shearer
#100. I think it's the pro-abortion people who are doing this to collect on their insurance, so they can go out and build bigger and better killing centers.
Norma McCorvey
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