Norman Collie Quotes

#1. Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.

William J. Clinton

#2. Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.

J. Norman Collie

#3. Mr. Speaker, high natural gas prices and the summer spike in gasoline prices serve as a stark reminder that the path to energy independence is a long and arduous one.

Judy Biggert

#4. Jealousy, that diseased crow pecking at your heart.

Stewart Stafford

#5. Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else
and usually it's reading his own handwriting.

J. Norman Collie

#6. Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history.

Michael Scheuer

#7. Organic Chemistry has become a vast rubbish heap of puzzling and bewildering compounds.

J. Norman Collie

#8. To make certain that crime does not pay, the government should take it over and try to run it.

J. Norman Collie

#9. The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?

J. Norman Collie

#10. One day I locked my keys in my car and as I was standing there with a hanger halfway through the top of my window, a guy walks up and says, Lock yer keys in the car? Without missin' a beat I said, Nope, Just washed it and was hanging it up to dry. Here's your sign.

Bill Engvall

#11. An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

George Bernard Shaw

#12. For better or for worse, but not for lunch,...

Abigail Thomas

#13. In free countries, every man is entitled to express his opinions and every other man is entitled not to listen.

J. Norman Collie