Norman Rockwell quote: "I had a couple of million dollars' worth of... stock once. And now it's not worth much more than wallpaper. I guess I just wasn't born to be rich."

I can take a lot of pats on the back. I love it when I get admiring letters from people. And, of cou...
NORMAN ROCKWELL

I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!
NORMAN ROCKWELL

The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see,...
NORMAN ROCKWELL

I'm the oldest antique in town.
NORMAN ROCKWELL

When I go to farms or little towns, I am always surprised at the discontent I find. And New York, to...
NORMAN ROCKWELL

The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big...
NORMAN ROCKWELL

I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, ...
NORMAN ROCKWELL

You must first spend some time getting your model to relax. Then you'll get a natural expression.
NORMAN ROCKWELL

Travel is like a tonic to me. It's more than just getting away from the studio for a brief rest. I n...
NORMAN ROCKWELL

Lady Bird Johnson had that extra-special Southern charm that you just can't resist. Mrs. Goldwater w...
NORMAN ROCKWELL

It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president.
NORMAN ROCKWELL

Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustr...
NORMAN ROCKWELL

No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feel...
NORMAN ROCKWELL

I've always loved Dickens. And Henry James. Tolstoy, Dostoevski.
NORMAN ROCKWELL

We got a good look at the Himalayas, which they tell me are about 28,000 feet high. I expected to be...
NORMAN ROCKWELL

It was a pretty rough neighborhood where I grew up The really tough places were over around Third Av...
NORMAN ROCKWELL

Eisenhower had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor's. Ver...
NORMAN ROCKWELL

Here in New England, the character is strong and unshakable.
NORMAN ROCKWELL

Things aren't much wilder now, I don't think, than they were back then. Of course I just read about ...
NORMAN ROCKWELL

Windblown: Contemporary American Weathervanes.
NORMAN ROCKWELL

The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jol...
NORMAN ROCKWELL

If you look at that picture for the 1964 election, you'll see I showed three different poses of John...
NORMAN ROCKWELL

Things aren't much wilder now, I don't think, than they were back then. Of course I just rea...
NORMAN ROCKWELL

I talk as I sketch, too, in order to keep their minds off what I'm doing so I'll get the mos...
NORMAN ROCKWELL

I'm still about as pigeon-toed as you can get. But I learned to manage pretty well on a bike. Should...
NORMAN ROCKWELL

I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know...
NORMAN ROCKWELL

Very interesting for an old duffer like me to try his hand at something new. If I don't do that once...
NORMAN ROCKWELL

Folktales and Folk Art
NORMAN ROCKWELL

I grew up on films.
SAM ROCKWELL

I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actor...
SAM ROCKWELL

I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in ...
SAM ROCKWELL

Well, you know, it's fun to sign autographs still for me. I don't sign that many.
SAM ROCKWELL

I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy P...
SAM ROCKWELL

Some actors don't want to, but I prefer to. I like to collaborate. Sometimes you have to keep it...
SAM ROCKWELL

I took a break after 'Confessions.' I was real picky. And then I suddenly realized I hadn...
SAM ROCKWELL

I've done so many independents for so many years. Leads that nobody's seen.
SAM ROCKWELL

You hit 41 and you don't burn calories like you used to.
SAM ROCKWELL

I'm happy that I'm finally getting some lines in my face. I always looked too young for the ...
SAM ROCKWELL

I've been in more than 20 movies. You just do the best you can and try to make a living.
SAM ROCKWELL

I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.
SAM ROCKWELL

I don't keep secrets from my parents, really; it's pretty open.
SAM ROCKWELL

My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she...
SAM ROCKWELL

One thing that bugs me in comedy is when somebody does a fake cry, you know, like they fake cry in a...
SAM ROCKWELL

After 40, you want to reverse the ageing process. That's complicated for me because I spent so m...
SAM ROCKWELL

I think any good actor is an anarchist. They have to be.
SAM ROCKWELL

I used to break dance. I can do some good James Brown footwork. But now I think I've danced too ...
SAM ROCKWELL

I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like B...
SAM ROCKWELL

I have memories of films that nobody ever saw, that I was very proud of, and those are still great m...
SAM ROCKWELL

It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like ...
SAM ROCKWELL

I've studied a technique called the Sanford Miesner technique, that teaches you how to focus. It...
SAM ROCKWELL

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.
SAM ROCKWELL

Money is power and power gives you choice.
SAM ROCKWELL

Your equipment DOES NOT affect the quality of your image. The less time and effort you spend worryin...
KEN ROCKWELL

I try to steal from the best. Suck it all in. 'Taxi Driver' is really a bible for film actor...
SAM ROCKWELL

Every project is an opportunity to learn, to figure out problems and challenges, to invent and reinv...
DAVID ROCKWELL

Three weeks ago, you had a surprisingly strong performance by 'Deep Impact.' Next week, 'The Horse W...
ARTHUR ROCKWELL

Maybe it was accelerated by the disappointing second quarter.
ARTHUR ROCKWELL

They obviously have owned up to the fact that this is the way they are going. They don't feel comfor...
ARTHUR ROCKWELL

A traditional network is still the only way for a big advertiser to get a big audience.
ARTHUR ROCKWELL

I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character ...
SAM ROCKWELL

You need to learn to see and compose. The more time you waste worrying about your equipment the less...
KEN ROCKWELL

The camera's only job is to get out of the way of making photographs.
KEN ROCKWELL

No matter how advanced your camera you still need to be responsible for getting it to the right plac...
KEN ROCKWELL

Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tool...
KEN ROCKWELL

Good acting is good acting, however you learn it. Some people who haven't studied are amazing. S...
SAM ROCKWELL

I like entertainment and think mastery is good, though I don't feel like a master. If a theme me...
DAVID ROCKWELL

Chavez likes to poke the U.S., ... And he's been aligning himself with folks like Fidel Castro.
RICK ROCKWELL

I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Min...
SAM ROCKWELL

Anjelica Huston and Kelly MacDonald are both really special. Anjelica has such a fresh point of view...
SAM ROCKWELL

There are 101 uses for duct tape and multiple uses for plastic sheeting.
LARRY ROCKWELL

While this was nothing to sneeze at, it was certainly less than on previous occasions.
KEITH ROCKWELL

Anything can happen in the tournament.
BILL ROCKWELL

Let's lead by example because the eyes are kind of on us. Instead of being negative toward it, let's...
BILL ROCKWELL

I try talk about a theme before every game, something that gives us a purpose.
BILL ROCKWELL

Our sauerkraut is prepared in the morning by the ladies, ... it's not your ordinary sauerkraut - it'...
GEORGE ROCKWELL

I was subjected to everything German as a young lad growing up, like traditional songs and talk of t...
GEORGE ROCKWELL

We love them, and they love to perform for us.
GEORGE ROCKWELL

It's almost unprecedented to be dealing with this many evacuees so far away from the impact area.
LARRY ROCKWELL

The key is to have a kind of core DNA - a series of pieces that are part of the look of the restaura...
DAVID ROCKWELL

If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the ...
ROCKWELL KENT

There's a sweetness to it.
DAVID ROCKWELL

We identify with her pain and grieving.
DAVID ROCKWELL

For me the most interesting part of theater is the relationship between the audience and the perform...
DAVID ROCKWELL

It creates a kind of landmark that people know when they go to Rosa. It's almost like an oasis. It's...
DAVID ROCKWELL

What we've done (in Detroit) is created a movie set so it gives movie-goers a chance to enter a spac...
DAVID ROCKWELL

We're showing the romance of travel at a different scale -- not at the level of a whole building, bu...
DAVID ROCKWELL

[The space marks Rockwell's first airport project, even if it is more about hospitality than transpo...
DAVID ROCKWELL

You've got to be careful, because it really is hard on the knees and joints.
EMILY ROCKWELL

Their jumps are bigger, vertical and horizontal, and they are faster because of leg strength.
EMILY ROCKWELL

You should let your muscles rest.
EMILY ROCKWELL

You can really raise your heart rate, burn fat and tone your lower body.
EMILY ROCKWELL

If you have these big huge goals they are not as attainable as smaller goals. It's better to start o...
EMILY ROCKWELL

You sit down afterward and you talk about it. 'Well, what could I have done here?' ... He's like a m...
JOHN ROCKWELL

It has been done. The big breakthrough has been achieved.
KEITH ROCKWELL

I don't think of myself as a brand. Branding to me feels like a position or identity that's ...
DAVID ROCKWELL

[But have no fear, there will be beer - the 4-H Club will sell Amber Bock by Budweiser.] It's a dark...
GEORGE ROCKWELL

We saw a lot of happy tears shed by our volunteers. And we saw a lot of happy tears shed by our clie...
LARRY ROCKWELL

We're looking at a disaster that will take months for people to recover from. We're in it for the lo...
LARRY ROCKWELL

You have to think of a restaurant as a series of impressions. But what makes my job so great is ther...
DAVID ROCKWELL

A lot of the residents and businesses will need what we call a [Customer Premise Equipment] device. ...
KARRIE ROCKWELL

Each access point pulls the electricity of about a 40-watt light bulb.
KARRIE ROCKWELL

Some people will like the flexibility to take their account wherever they want to go. This gives peo...
KARRIE ROCKWELL

We have deployed 600 access points (transmitters that send radio signals to wireless-enabled compute...
KARRIE ROCKWELL

WHEN YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHO YOU ARE, YOU NEVER HAVE TO HIDE.
NORMAN

We must put an end to both economic freeloading and economic exploitation in America. There must be ...
GEORGE LINCOLN ROCKWELL

I think the average Jew is probably sharper intellectually than the average gentile, because for yea...
GEORGE LINCOLN ROCKWELL

It is not the evil itself which is horrifying about our times – it is the way we not only tolerate...
GEORGE LINCOLN ROCKWELL

Being prepared to die is one of the great secrets of living.
GEORGE LINCOLN ROCKWELL

We must have a foreign policy which is based only on the long-term interests of our race, not on the...
GEORGE LINCOLN ROCKWELL

Revolution is a spectators sport. The majority will sit in the stands and watch the factions fight. ...
GEORGE LINCOLN ROCKWELL

We march and fight, to death or on to victory. Our might is right, no traitors shall prevail. Our he...
GEORGE LINCOLN ROCKWELL

A leopard doesn't change his spots just because you bring him in from the jungle and try to housebre...
GEORGE LINCOLN ROCKWELL

It is not the evil itself which is horrifying about our times it is the way we not only tolerate ...
GEORGE LINCOLN ROCKWELL

Jews talk a lot about God. But actually their god, just like Marx said, is money. Cash!
GEORGE LINCOLN ROCKWELL

We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed ...
GEORGE LINCOLN ROCKWELL

I have met survivors from different parts of the country who have reported being ritually abused, so...
ROBERT B. ROCKWELL

I've always said it's interesting to watch devils cry when angels want to stab you in the ba...
NORMAN REEDUS

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of i...
NORMAN COUSINS

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds toge...
NORMAN COUSINS

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing ...
NORMAN COUSINS

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of the...
NORMAN COUSINS

He who keeps his cool best wins.
NORMAN COUSINS

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
NORMAN COUSINS

What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they...
NORMAN COUSINS

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.
NORMAN COUSINS

My views line up with Mick Mulvaney's views pretty much exactly.
RALPH NORMAN

My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do ...
RALPH NORMAN

Everybody's had their differences with President Trump. He's a polarizing president, but I t...
RALPH NORMAN

I firmly believe that with President Trump in the White House, we have such a great opportunity as c...
RALPH NORMAN

What Washington desperately needs now are citizen legislators that are dedicated to leading a free p...
RALPH NORMAN

Our message of a balanced budget amendment, term limits to end career politicians, and a real plan t...
RALPH NORMAN

My candidacy is one that fits the district and fits the Mick Mulvaney-Jim DeMint philosophy.
RALPH NORMAN

I am a businessman.
RALPH NORMAN

I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
RALPH NORMAN

Business creates jobs; government does not. Government creates a whole slew of jobs each time a new ...
RALPH NORMAN

I believe in the free enterprise system.
RALPH NORMAN

John Spratt did a great job of constituent service. When somebody had a problem, he would jump on it...
RALPH NORMAN

I don't think I can sell to our voters in our district that there's nothing to cut in the fe...
RALPH NORMAN

If you liked Mick Mulvaney's votes, you'll like my votes.
RALPH NORMAN

If someone wants to say 'I love you' in a straight play, they say it, and then it's the ...
MARSHA NORMAN

I always get more applause than votes.
NORMAN THOMAS

To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is...
NORMAN THOMAS

Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara...
NORMAN THOMAS

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.
NORMAN THOMAS

I walk where I choose to walk.
NORMAN THOMAS

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
NORMAN COUSINS

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his mean...
NORMAN COUSINS

In Britain, the idea one could go from blue-collar beginnings to the university was so far out, it w...
NORMAN FOSTER

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
NORMAN THOMAS

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know w...
NORMAN MACLEAN

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
NORMAN DOUGLAS

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
NORMAN DOUGLAS

To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.
NORMAN DOUGLAS

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising.
NORMAN DOUGLAS

The fun of fishing is catching 'em, not killing 'em.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Only in a concert situation do I have access to people directly to preach to them, and I don't b...
LARRY NORMAN

I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superf...
LARRY NORMAN

Art is more engaging that propaganda.
LARRY NORMAN

I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate ...
LARRY NORMAN

Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were re...
LARRY NORMAN

Gospel songs to me are about the mansion in the sky, and washed in the blood of Christ's crimson...
LARRY NORMAN

Life is God's art.
LARRY NORMAN

I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really bei...
LARRY NORMAN

I'm only here on Earth to serve God. I never had a career. I don't care about commercialism....
LARRY NORMAN

We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.
LARRY NORMAN

I thought 'The Well' was going to launch my career, but nothing happened.
MAIDIE NORMAN

When I was young, I was rather attractive, and I thought that I would be a leading lady. I always th...
MAIDIE NORMAN

I am a Republican because the United States is a republic, and the views we hold represent the found...
MAIDIE NORMAN

I do not want to be a pawn in a political campaign.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Particularly when you're dealing with very high ranking people, you know, you have to get their ...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

What people don't understand is this is something that we only have in America. There is no othe...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

When placed in command, take charge.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

I've managed to convince my wife that somewhere in the Bible it says, 'Man cannot have too m...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

A great deal of the capability of an army is its dedication to its cause and its will to fight. You ...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if i...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

What is postwar Iraq going to look like, with the Kurds and the Sunnis and the Shiites? That's a...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the peopl...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

They say the good Lord doesn't charge you for the days you hunt and fish, and I believe that.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Nobody can ever pin you down when you speculate.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

The Depression was remarkable because you had nothing, and the salaries, when you got a job, were ve...
NORMAN LLOYD

All my boyhood, all I ever wanted was to be loved.
NORMAN WISDOM

With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and...
NORMAN JEWISON

Obviously it's my second senior event, and I'm tired obviously coming back from the British ...
GREG NORMAN

I could never bear to be buried with people to whom I had not been introduced.
NORMAN PARKINSON

Modern Orthodoxy has a highly positive attitude toward the State of Israel. Our Ultra-Orthodox breth...
NORMAN LAMM

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality. ...
NORMAN COUSINS

In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsib...
NORMAN COUSINS

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
NORMAN COUSINS

Bulgaria was the only Axis country to deflect insistent German demands for the deportation of its Je...
NORMAN DAVIES

I went camping one time when I was twelve, to the Great Lakes. My friend stepped in really deep mudd...
NORMAN REEDUS

I've been camping and stuff, but if you left me in the woods I'd probably just curl up and c...
NORMAN REEDUS

The E.U. is an organization that was created after the Second World War for calming down the nationa...
NORMAN DAVIES

I've been a huge Psychedelic Furs fan for a long time. I love Butler's paintings, too. I lik...
NORMAN REEDUS

I voted for Nader, and I have no doubts at all that it was the right thing to do because the Nader c...
NORMAN FINKELSTEIN

When wheat is ripening properly, when the wind is blowing across the field, you can hear the beards ...
NORMAN BORLAUG

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consent...
NORMAN DOUGLAS

Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must mak...
NORMAN ANGELL

Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own m...
NORMAN ANGELL

I had a couple of million dollars' worth of... stock once. And now it's not worth much more than wallpaper. I guess I just wasn't born to be rich.

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