Norman Corwin Quotes

#1. You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it.

Saul Bellow

#2. A great life starts and steadies with a great mind that is open to new ideas, fierce in defense of truth, and always eager to learn.

Toni Sorenson

#3. Yes, aging can be tough and rough ... But it is possible to approach the ultimate without staggering and even with a kind of glow, like a radiant sunset.

Norman Corwin

#4. Surprisingly, Gwendolyn, I have more important things to do with my time, like put bamboo shoots under my nails or drill holes in all my teeth.

Shelly Laurenston

#5. He's not the hero and he's not the enemy and he's not a god. He's just a boy. And I'm just a girl, a girl who needs to pick up her own pieces and put them back together herself.

Amber Smith

#6. The ability of Americans to toss off oppressive characters is the most rewarding aspect, to me, of U.S. history.

Norman Corwin

#7. I'd never realized how changeless this changeable island was until it turned into something different than I'd ever known.

Maggie Stiefvater

#8. The playwright's rendition of Abraham Lincoln remembers a pitiful little paddlewheel he saw that he could only generate steam to EITHER blow the ship's whistle OR move the wheel. Just as the little ship could not do both, Lincoln fears that very few can actually think and speak at the same time.

Norman Corwin

#9. Cats are designated friends.

Norman Corwin

#10. I try to shake it loose-but these ideas, they cling. It's like I'm shackled to them with an iron chain. They rattle along behind me, dragging against the ground, always reminding me of their presence.

Maureen Johnson

#11. Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

William Shenstone

#12. I got my first real six string, bought it at the five and dime, played it 'til my fingers bled.

Bryan Adams

#13. I know she loves One Direction and that her favorite member is Louis, because he's the mature one.

Kristin Harmel

#14. Just being a woman is God's gift. The origin of a child is a mother, a woman. She shows a man what sharing, caring, and loving is all about. That is the essence of a woman.

Sushmita Sen

#15. Attack thoughts towards others are attack thoughts towards ourselves.

Marianne Williamson

#16. But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.

Sri Aurobindo