Norman Quotes

You can't prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell - although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I'd say you were shunning complexity, were secretly conservative, and hadn't really looked at either painter's work. Taste is a blood sport.
Jerry Saltz

Work, Actually, Blood

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
Joe Theismann

Football, Genius, Guy

It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition.
Camille Paglia

Work, Time, American

I feel more Scottish than Norman.
Alexander McQueen

Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue.
James Wolcott

Faith, Food, Humble

What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of 'The Naked and the Dead' and American literature's leading heavyweight contender, to Dan Wolf, the delphic editor of 'The Village Voice.'
James Wolcott

American, Dead, Voice

My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich.
James Wolcott

Read, Sandwich, Papers

If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.
Shaquille O'Neal

Game, Why, Playing

Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.
Ken Kesey

Writing, Hard, America

On Memorial Day, I was out floating on Lake Norman and came across Denny Hamlin. We struck up a conversation, and one of the first things we were talking about was how much it helped him when he started racing the Cup car and how much it helped his Nationwide program.
Danica Patrick

Car, Him, Started

John Major put the 'er' back into Conservative, David Cameron's put the 'Con' into Conservative - and Norman Lamont put the 'vat' into Conservative!
David Miliband

Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.
Adam Clarke

Family, Cannot, Whether

It's absolutely philistine not to recognize what a great book 'An American Dream' is. Norman Mailer is his own worst enemy, and if you don't catch him in a defensive position, he'll admit it. I'd really like to help that man.
Germaine Greer

Great, Enemy, Help

When I turned 18, was the first time that I really started concentrating on politics. And I started doing so because I realized that in order to really create and generate change, it has to come from changing laws... so I started campaigning for Norman Lear's foundation, which was Declare Yourself.
Hayden Panettiere

Change, Politics, Time

I get great joy from creating the perfect Norman Rockwell holiday. This is why I think I might be Martha Stewart's brother from another mother.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Great, Mother, Perfect

It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, stopped at the penny candy store on the way home from school, skated on the pond.
Dorothy Hamill

Home, School, Small

I was from the bush, watching Greg Norman on TV, but it was a world away.
Stuart Appleby

Away, Tv, Watching

It wasn't my plan to create such a record. All I did was put in the effort to win every match I played and it went on for weeks, months and years until my defeat to Ross Norman in Toulouse in 1986.
Jahangir Khan

Win, Put, Effort

I will say I love competing, and I was in a great era of playing with young Phil Mickelson and older Greg Norman and Nick Price. I don't know if YA Title could throw the ball these days, but you can play golf for a long, long time.
Fred Couples

Love, Time, Great

When I was growing up my favorite show was 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', and I loved all the stuff that Norman Lear did.
Ryan Murphy

Show, Loved, Growing

The whole book experience was a look into another world, the world of Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer.
Jerry Kramer

Experience, Book, Another

I brought samples in, because I didn't have any comic book samples, and I brought all these illustrations that I had influenced by Norman Rockwell and a couple of the other big boys. That's all I had, that's all I brought.
Dan DeCarlo

Book, Big, Couple

I've always been a fan of books that create an interesting blend of fact and fiction - whether it's Norman Mailer, or 'The Short Timers,' or 'In Cold Blood.' I'm a fan of that genre.
Mark Boal

Short, Fact, Whether

I remember when I first came out on tour, it was Greg Norman and Nick Price. We forget how big Norman was, what a presence he was. I remember one of my first tournaments, Greg threw an orange peel down on the ground and some fan ran over and grabbed it. 'This is Greg Norman's orange peel!'
Phil Mickelson

Forget, Down, Remember

I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney, in that I really like to make people happy.
Thomas Kincade

Happy, Matter, Common

Hitch was interested in what I had to offer, like one of my background ideas for Norman's upbringing.
Joseph Stefano

Ideas, Interested, Background

In Psycho IV, the time is five years after III, and Norman is out of the hospital. He's a married man, and he's finally learned how to love somebody and have natural sex without killing his lover.
Joseph Stefano

Love, Time, Sex

There's one guy who inspired a nation of golfers, and that's Greg Norman. He's been incredible to me and all the great golfers.
Adam Derek Scott

Great, Nation, Inspired

Once during a taping there was an actor who kept blowing his lines. It happened again and again. Finally Norman Fell came out-he wasn't even in that scene. But Norman came out and you know what he did? He killed the guy with a hammer.
John Ritter

Again, Once, Actor

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

Related Definition

Norman Definition

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Popular Topics

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Get Social with BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote of the Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

Syndication

Funny Quote Feed

Love Quote Feed

Nature Quote Feed

About Us