Norwill Simmonds Quotes

#1. Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention ... But it is their genius making them attentive, not their attention making geniuses of them.

William James

#2. The scribbler's life is never done.

A. N. Wilson

#3. The only way to know life is living it.

John Northcutt Young

#4. It's funny how the colours of the like real world only seem real real when you viddy them on a screen

Anthony Burgess

#5. America is a lunatic asylum.

Ezra Pound

#6. The virtue of pride, which was once the beauty of mankind, has given place to that fount of ugliness, Christian humility.

Max Ernst

#7. There is scarcely anything more important in the government of men than the exact - I will ever say pedantic - observance of the regular forms by which the guilt or innocence of accused persons is determined.

Winston Churchill

#8. The celestial brightness of Pride and Prejudice is unequalled even in Jane Austen's other work; after a life of much disappointment and grief, in which some people would have seen nothing but tedium and emptiness, she stepped forth as an author, breathing gaiety and youth, robed in dazzling light.

Elizabeth Jenkins

#9. The magic of compounding interest is truly the eighth wonder of the world!

Albert Einstein

#10. Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment - that which they cannot anticipate.

Sun Tzu

#11. Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism and the free market, not the welfare state, produces selfish people.

Dennis Prager

#12. Murphy hung up and I said, to the still-open line, "Hey, if you've got someone watching my place, could you call the cops if anyone tries to steal my Star Wars poster? It's an original."
Then I vindictively hung up on the FBI. It made my inner child happy.

Jim Butcher

#13. The gossip mill runs on estrogen.

Kim Harrington

#14. It helps to have founded and run a company if you're going to help somebody run a company who is a founder.

Ben Horowitz

#15. The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Plato