Norman Lindsay Quotes

#1. What we need to do is learn to respect and embrace our differences until our differences don't make a difference in how we are treated.

Yolanda King

#2. At last with an effort he spoke, and wondered to hear his own words, as if some other will was using his small voice. 'I will take the Ring,' he said, 'though I do not know the way.' Elrond

J.R.R. Tolkien

#3. I just always loved pinball.

Kevin Dillon

#4. Not every successful man is a good father. But every good father is a successful man.

Robert Duvall

#5. Syriza is what it is: a radical, left-wing party that feels the pulse of the times, knows what's at stake, and is after a wide consensus and unity for political change in Greece. This is something that departs from the narrow limits of the radical left.

Alexis Tsipras

#6. Read the whole book, suffer it to tell even one of its secrets to your soul, and your soul will grow eager to know more, and will feed upon poisonous honey, and make atonement for terrible pleasures that it has never known.

Oscar Wilde

#7. 'You ain't got any tobacco,' he said scornfully to Bunyip Bluegum. 'I can see that at a glance. You're one of the non smoking sort, all fur and feathers.'

Norman Lindsay

#8. I first played the Royal Albert Hall when I was 14. I was a violinist with the Birmingham Schools Concert Orchestra, and we travelled down from the Midlands for the last night of the School Proms. We played some pieces from the Harry Potter films, and the violin parts were really hard.

Laura Mvula

#9. Life is difficult; facts uncompromising; and the passage to that fabled land where our brightest hopes are extinguished, our frail barks founder in darkness, one that needs, above all, courage, truth, and the power to endure.

Virginia Woolf

#10. The best love affairs are those we never had.

Norman Lindsay

#11. Everybody walks to somewhere or everybody runs to somewhere simply because those somewheres don't walk to us or don't run to us! No struggle happens, no nothing happens!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. Sex is not only the basis of life, it is the reason for life.

Norman Lindsay

#13. Apologies are totally inadequate,' shouted Uncle Wattleberry. 'Nothing short of felling you to the earth with an umbrella could possibly atone for the outrage. You are a danger to the whisker-growing public. You have knocked my hat off, pulled my whiskers, and tried to remove my nose.

Norman Lindsay

#14. I am quite prepared, if we can do it without any disrespect to the Crown of England, to bring our titles to the marketplace and make a bonfire of them.

Wilfrid Laurier

#15. A writer who presents men and women as creatures truncated below the waist is exposed as one who goes about without his trousers saying, 'see, I have had my testicles removed.'

Norman Lindsay

#16. GEN: What you are doesn't matter to me. Who you are does.

T.S. Joyce

#17. Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.

Norman Lindsay

#18. He showed me the lowest. I had to surmise the highest.

John Howard Griffin