Norman Sunshine Quotes

After 50 years together as a couple:
"Look how fast the leaves are falling now," Alan says. "The trees will be bare in a couple of days. Do you realize that we have watched the leaves fall together for more than fifty autumns?"
I stand quietly, looking at Alan, letting his words sink in. I am suddenly so moved. ~ Norman Sunshine

As an artist in the 1960s, Norman Sunshine was able to maintain a moderately out lifestyle. But when the first exhibition of his paintings in New York brought on a profile in The New York Times in 1968, he was photographed in the apartment that he admitted sharing with Shayne. At both his advertising agency and Shayne's television production company, the article was met with absolute silence. ~ Alan Shayne

Upon their meeting in New York in 1958: "We didn't want to live together. We didn't have any examples of what a good love relationship between two men could be. And there was always the problem of hiding so no one would know we were gay. There was no question that if I were known to be gay, living with another man, it would make it more difficult for me to get work as an actor." - Alan Shayne, co-author, Double Life ~ Alan Shayne

Once again, the designer should assume that people will be interrupted during their activities and that they may need assistance in resuming their operations. ~ Donald A. Norman

Don't mire up in self despair of your losses, learn from them and move on to other good things in life. Don't stop allowing the sunshine in because of the fear that winter will come and engulf the warmth. Hold it close to you to help you through those cold winter days. ~ Belinda Taylor On "Loss"

Calypso: "You think it's funny to send me this ... this charbroiled runt of a boy to ruin my tranquility? This is NOT FUNNY! take him back!"
Leo: "Hey, sunshine, I'm right here you know ... "
Calypso: "Do NOT call me sunshine! ~ Rick Riordan

Good generalship is the realisation that you've got to figure out how to accomplish your mission with the minimum loss of human life. ~ Norman Schwarzkopf

I drug your ghost across the country, and we plotted out my death. Every city and memory we whispered "Here is where you rest." Well I was determined in Chicago but I dug my teeth into my knees And I settled for a telephone, sang into your machine: "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. ~ Conor Oberst

I've been camping and stuff, but if you left me in the woods I'd probably just curl up and cry until someone found me. ~ Norman Reedus

May the good Lord be with you down every road you roam, and may sunshine and happiness surround you when you're far from home. And may you grow to be proud, dignified and true; and do unto others as you'd have done to you. Be courageous and be brave and in my heart you'll always stay forever young.
May good fortune be with you, may your guiding light be strong; build a stairway to heaven with a prince or a vagabond. And may you never love in vain and in my heart you will remain forever young.
And when you finally fly away I'll be hoping that I served you well, for all the wisdom of a lifetime no one can ever tell. But whatever road you choose, I'm right behind you, win or lose, forever young. ~ Rod Stewart

A society must create lots of sunshine for its miners as they need the sun most! And 'to be remembered, to be respected' is a good sunshine; 'safety in the mine' is a good sunshine! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother. ~ J. Norman Collie

Historians usually focus their attention on the past of countries that still exist, writing hundreds and thousands of books on British history, French history, German history, Russian history, American history, Chinese history, Indian history, Brazilian history or whatever. Whether consciously or not, they are seeking the roots of the present, thereby putting themselves in danger of reading history backwards. As soon as great powers arise, whether the United States in the twentieth century or China in the twenty-first, the call goes out for offerings on American History or Chinese History, and siren voices sing that today's important countries are also those whose past is most deserving of examination, that a more comprehensive spectrum of historical knowledge can be safely ignored. ~ Norman Davies

We are beginning to comprehend a basic truth hitherto neglected, that our physical condition is determined very largely by our emotional condition, and our emotional life is profoundly regulated by our thought life. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

He was even nicer to look at in the sunshine. Raven hair, sky blue eyes, and full lips. Sexy. ~ S.C. Wynne

Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict. ~ Norman Cousins

The characters write the plot. Their natures do. ~ Norman Rush

Rising unemployment and the recession have been the price that we have had to pay to get inflation down. That price is well worth paying. ~ Norman Lamont

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment. ~ Norman Mailer

The only thing to thinking, is seeing something noticeable, that makes you see something you weren't noticing, that makes you see something that isn't visible ~ Norman McLean

Nate Silver is now forecasting Oscar winners. The only area of life in which he has no expertise, ironically, is life itself. ~ Norman Chad

Jazz is America's own. It is played and listened to by all peoples - in harmony together. Pigmentation differences have no place ... as in genuine democracy, only performance counts. ~ Norman Granz

The country through which we had been travelling for days has an original beauty. Wide plains were diversified by stretches of hilly country with low passes. We often had to wade through swift running ice-cold brooks. It has long since we had seen a glacier, but as we were approaching the tasam at Barka, a chain of glaciers gleaming in the sunshine came into view. The landscape was dominated by the 25,000-foot peak of Gurla Mandhata; less striking, but far more famous, was the sacred Mount Kailash, 3,000 feet lower, which stands in majestic isolation apart from the Himalayan range. ~ Heinrich Harrer

It is easy to comprehend people who are weaker than ourselves, but it is not as simple to be ready for the true feelings of those more powerful. ~ Norman Mailer

I never said I don't like you, Sunshine. Believe me, I like you. I only said I wasn't good for you. If things were different, you'd be mine. You'd be in my bed, underneath me anytime I wanted. ~ K.J. Bell

The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder. ~ Norman Mailer

Every one of us possesses a gene predisposing us toward rivalry, competition, and fits of envy with any past, present, or future siblings. ~ Linda Sunshine

She remembered the summer evenings all full of sunshine. The colts neighed when any one passed by, and galloped, galloped. Under her window there was a beehive, and sometimes the bees wheeling round in the light struck against her window like rebounding balls of gold. ~ Gustave Flaubert

When I was young, a teacher had forbidden me to say "more perfect" because she said if a thing is perfect it can't be more so. But by now I had seen enough of life to have regained my confidence in it. ~ Norman Maclean

The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel. ~ Norman Spinrad

Like flowers and plants, we too need ground under our feet, warmth and sunshine and food for our spirit, protective boundaries, tending and care, freedom to grow unencumbered and without limitation, and complete support from the Universe to become our greatest possible self. ~ Sonia Choquette

To have a mind full of peace, merely fill it full of peace. It's as simple as that. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

Enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things; first, an ideal which takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for a carrying that ideal into practice. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

You'll never make sense of his notes. You just have to listen to his lecture," Graham whispered
confidentially. "It's a challenge, but the good news is that he's been giving the same tests for forty years. The
answers are carved right into the tops of the desks. See? ~ G. Norman Lippert

Ellen and Norman Douglas are warming up the old soup." "Is ~ L.M. Montgomery

Life has a way of shining on people who stand in the sunshine of kind actions. ~ Bryant McGill

When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making. ~ Norman Angell

Am I an Apple bigot? No. I can critique their products and their customer service philosophy. But overall, they do better than any other player. ~ Donald Norman

There is no room on the golf course for anger or self-pity. ~ Greg Norman

I mean they're making remakes of my films and I'm not even dead yet! Why would you want to make a remake? ~ Norman Jewison

Well, good afternoon, sunshine. How are you feeling?"
"Like something the cat dragged in, then dragged back outside to leave in the rain, and mud, then the lightning hit it, and burned it, and the cat came back to tear it into pieces, before burying it. ~ Kimberly Montague

Love is simple to understand if you haven't got a mind soft and full of holes. It's a crutch, that's all, and there isn't any one of us that doesn't need a crutch. ~ Norman Mailer