Top 188 Norman Quotes & Sayings

A good meal must be as harmonious as a symphony and as well-constructed as a Norman cathedral.

We got a Chinese Elvis painted by Norman Rockwell.

The relation of eugenics to British psychiatry bears examination. The primary controlling body for psychiatry in England is the British National Association for Mental Health (NAMH), formed in 1944, and initially run by the mentally unstable Montagu Norman, previously of the Bank of England. The group originally met at Norman's London home, where he and Nazi Economics Minister Hjalmar Schacht had met in the 1930s to arrange financing for Hitler.

I once looked like Norman Mailer in a picture with bad lighting.

I feel more Scottish than Norman.

After we did [All In The Family], that ended up being a real love fest all around. Me and Norman, Norman [Lear] and me, Rob Reiner, everybody liked everybody. So about six or seven months later I moved out to L.A. and I got a call that Norman wanted to see me. I came in and he said "ABC has given me a property that they just optioned to make into a TV series. It's from a play called Hot L Baltimore, and I want you to be in it."

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

?here's no doubt at all that the Norman conquest led to the hugely concentrated land ownership patterns that we still see in Britain today. Some of Britain's biggest landowners are still direct descendants of Norman barons. And given the impact that Britain has had on the world over the past few hundred years, you could perhaps say this was a global issue. History is always with us.

Norman Lear considers almost any Christian who speaks up for and acts on his or her faith to be 'dangerous.'

I remember seeing Norman Cook swimming in a pair of burgundy pants. I thought: 'Wow, he looks great.'

How could you not love Norman Mailer? He was a total chauvinist, but also so vulnerable.

The struggle is how to write optimistically when the world we're living in is not inherently optimistic. I love the idea of the family from the most Norman Rockwell version to Norman Bates. Without family, we have very little - it is the most basic social structure. So yes I suppose I wanted to write a hopeful book about the evolution of the family.

I remember the great work that Norman Lear did. That was an incredible heyday to be a black actor.

Norman Lear was talking about everything in the '70s... race, sexism, all of it. The network comedy really stayed away from that in the 1980s and 1990s.

I went to Norman High then I walked across the street after that and went to college. That's my home town, that's where I'm from. Physically I'm a Texan, but I'm an Oklahoman.

You have the sex appeal of Norman Fell.

Norman Parke needs to stay off of Twitter before he gets himself in a fight he can't win.

Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow! Christ save us all from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe!

English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any of the other results.

Housing in New York seemed to fit Norman Lear. In addition, his shows confronted all kinds of social issues - racial separation and prejudice being foremost among them. The Evans of Good Times were the first black family to be the focus of a primetime American TV show. A lot of the people we came across in filming were familiar with the role Norman played in catalyzing important national conversations about race. They seemed grateful to him for trying to move the needle.

Playing in a city like Norman, where it's all about Oklahoma football. A no-brainer for me.

The term 'genius' is inapplicable to anyone in this game. A genius is Norman Einstein.

We split a bottle of Norman cider. Not everybody sells Norman cider by the bottle.

I am what I am as a writer because of Norman Lear and Spike Lee. Norman Lear in particular.

I had a trial run with Norman Ross for 21 years, from '61 to '82. I didn't have it in mind to open a chain like Harvey Norman. I opened one shop, but then the next thing you know, I've got another shop and then another shop.

Peter Norman is a humanitarian, and I say "is" because in my life, Peter Norman is never deceased. He's always going to live with me.

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

I'm about as normal as Norman Bates.

He took a stance as a man, and the greatest thing about Peter Norman is when you sit back and think about Tommie Smith and John Carlos here in America, they could go beat up on Tommie Smith and get tired of beating up on him and go to the other side of town and find John Carlos and beat up on him, but when Peter Norman left and went to Australia, there was no switch-off on Peter.

Norman Rockwell, the Brueghel of the 20th century bourgeoisie, the Holbein of Jell-O ads and magazine covers; by common assent, the most American artist of all.

Peter [Norman] never vacated from himself as to who he was.

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

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

I think society had to grow up to the mentality of Peter Norman.

Norman Bates heard the noise and a shock went through him.

My life has been amazing. How many other ladies of 76 can say that the snapshot on their senior citizen's card was taken by Norman Parkinson?

I was discovered, or mentored, by Norman Lear, who plucked me from the grinder of relative obscurity.

Norman Hooten's dedication and commitment to serving his fellow veterans is what VA is all about.

In a very real way Norman [Lear] godfathered me into my career. He was the best mentor anybody could have ever had.

[ Republican Party] is correctly described as a "radical insurgency" by one of the leading conservative commentators, Norman Ornstein.

It is my opinion that Norman Rockwell and his ilk have done more to make already anxious people feel guilty than anyone else.

I'm sure there was people in Australia that told Peter Norman that hey, man, you shouldn't have done what you did, you shouldn't have gotten involved in those individuals, it wasn't your business.

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.

The fact that the movie's called Norman and I play Norman was just a weighted responsibility that I never experienced before. I just tried to be prepared as possible. I think that's really the only way to go about it, from what I heard from people who have to do this a lot.

I think Peter Norman recuperated in the sense that people who knew who Peter Norman was, he built his character around the legacy of his family, in terms of what they taught him about equality and justice for all.

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.

If I'd found out that Norman Mailer liked me. I'd have killed myself.

Looking for love on the internet is like Janet Leigh asking Norman Bates if he likes her body.

When Elizabeth II was crowned - the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest - the world lit up in her favour.

Morgan sighed. "I," she announced, "am so pathetic." "You are not," I said. "I am." She went over and straightened the cling wrap, corner to corner. "Do you know how many times I've brought in devilled eggs? This is, like, the only time I haven't been sobbing and that's only 'cause I cried all night. And Norman," she said, her voice rising to a wail, "sweet Norman, always just acts so surprised to see the eggs, and pleased, and he never, once, has ever acted like he knew what they meant."

For much of America, the all-American values depicted in Norman Rockwell's classic illustrations are idealistic. For those of us from Vermont, they're realistic. That's what we do.

I consider myself a disciple of Norman Lear. And one of the things he did was topic-driven humor.

[Peter Norman] was a man of principle and pride, had a strong moral character.

He's not a performer, he's not a composer, he's not even a musician, but Norman Granz is Mr. Jazz.

The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.

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!'

It's always an interesting question of what was it like as Norman Mailer's son because I could easily turn it back and say what's it like not to. I didn't always realize my dad was Norman Mailer. I always knew he was Dad, and then I forget the exact age when it dawned on me that, you know, he is actually someone who affects the public consciousness of the time. It was amazing. I mean he was a rock star and brilliant and kind and funny and generous and scary when he needed to be and, you know, hard as a father.

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

Norman, Okla. That's where my folks live, so it's home to me.

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