Top 44 Norman Quotes

Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie – father of the future Alex Dumas – was born on February 26, 1714, in the Norman province of Caux, a region of rolling dairy farms that hung above great chalk cliffs on the northwest coast of France.

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

My family was pretty much the way a family was supposed to be, a Norman Rockwell kind of family, I’m afraid. I say ‘I’m afraid’ because it will just confirm my critics‘ view that my views about family are unrealistic.

When your child stops breathing 60 times a night, you don’t worry about what’s going on next year or even next week. You put aside thoughts about which preschool you’re going to enroll him in and focus on how he’s doing right now. It’s not the Norman Rockwell relationship that you sign on for when becoming a parent.

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

As far as getting my start, it was really Norman Lear, even aside from being on ‘All in the Family.’ He helped me get my start as a director. He was the one who said, ‘Let him do ‘Spinal Tap.’ Let him give it a try,’ because I had been trying for years to get that thing off the ground.

I fell in love with Norman Mailer’s ‘Of a Fire on the Moon’, a description of the 1969 moon landing and the society that had produced NASA – and was inspired by him to begin a kind of anthropology of modern life.

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.

I always wanted to be known as the Norman Rockwell of television, and ‘Happy Days‘ represented the part of me that wanted to make mainstream America laugh.

I started life washing cars in Canada before moving on to selling life insurance and vacuum cleaners. Later, I went through a programme by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, which literally changed my life. It was the turning point.

It’s two guys in particular. Norman Smiley, he got his hands on me the day I walked in the door – started teaching me the fundamentals and teaching me things that I use – but Billy Gunn, that guy has helped me evolve more than anyone.

I feel more Scottish than Norman.

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

Nick‘s just from this very Norman Rockwell-ish family. They’re very ‘American Gothic,’ and his parents are so kind, and they’re not brash people; they’re very soft spoken, salt of the earth.

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

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.

John Major put the ‘er’ back into Conservative, David Cameron‘s put the ‘Con’ into Conservative – and Norman Lamont put the ‘vat’ into Conservative!

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.’

I don’t get like when people say Josh Norman is tough. Don’t get me wrong, he’s a good player.

Years ago when I had my first dark match against Norman Smiley, Norman took me to the side and introduced me to Booker and we spent a few minutes talking and he gave me some advice and back then he was kind enough to give me his number and told me to give him a call if I ever needed any advice.

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

I loved Woody Allen‘s short pieces. I was equally influenced by Woody Allen and Norman Mailer. I was very into this idea of being high-low, of being serious and intellectual but also making really broad jokes.

I grew up on a farm in Lexington, Oklahoma, a rural community south of Norman. My family moved to Enid, Oklahoma, in 1962, when I was a junior in high school. This cast me into a totally different environment. Enid was a company town for Champlin Petroleum, and there was an oil boom going on.

I built my church on Easter services, Christmas Eve services, and Norman Vincent Peale.

It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer’s life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.

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

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

Frank Capra, Hollywood‘s Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the ‘Saturday Evening Post‘ covers of Norman Rockwell. ‘It’s A Wonderful Life,’ the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch.

Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes.

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.

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

I was lucky enough to be a child during the renaissance of Australian children‘s literature, when people like Ivan Southall, Colin Thiele, Lilith Norman and Wrightson were pumping out hugely inspiring stuff.

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.

At the beginning of my career, as a boy from Peru in London, suddenly discovering British culture and society, I looked so much at the work of the photographers Cecil Beaton and Norman Parkinson, which seemed to represent a wonderful vanished grandeur of my new country.

The internet thing is what I have the greatest problem with. I don’t know if anyone in the media gets the internet thing and Harvey Norman. I think they have some strange interpretation of it that bears no resemblance to what actually happens.

When interviewing for a job, tell the editor how you love to report. How your passion is gathering information. Do not mention how you want to be a writer, use the word ‘prose,’ or that deep down you have a sinking suspicion you are the next Norman Mailer.

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

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

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

My parents are both English. My dad is a plastic surgeon – his name‘s Norman Waterhouse, but we call him Normy. And my mom‘s a nurse, which is how they met – in a hospital, over decaying bone.

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

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.

Norman Rockwell – even though we think of him as a great American artist, in a lot of museums he has not garnered that kind of attention. And it’s this kind of accessibility that we’re trying to bring – not looking down on any art.

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