Norman Lear Famous Quotes



"Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything."


Norman Lear Quotations






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"I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies, for the world needs such men more than heaven does."
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron.
Josef Stalin

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it."
Henry Ford

"Marriage. Why do we do it Everybody knows the stats. One in two marriages end up in broken dishes and a trip to Tijuana. Is it loneliness Partly. Is it teamwork Definitely. Things just kind of go easier when there's two of you. One of you can wait in line at the movie theater while the other guy parks the car. Get better seats that way. Better room rate when it's a double. Are you ready to file jointly...Above you is the sun and sky. Below you, the ground. Like the sun, your love should be constant, like the ground, solid."
Jed Seidel

Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B F Skinner

"Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen."
Ambrose Bierce

"But each day brings its petty dust Our soon-chok'd souls to fill, And we forget because we must, And not because we will."
Matthew Arnold

Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
Warren Bennis

You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.
Zig Ziglar

"Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."
Oscar Fingall O Flahertie Wills Wilde