Norman Corwin quotes

Norman Corwin quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Cats are designated friends.”
-- Norman Corwin

#Cat Quotes
“The playwright's rendition of Abraham Lincoln remembers a pitiful little paddlewheel he saw that he could only generate steam to EITHER blow the ship's whistle OR move the wheel. Just as the little ship could not do both, Lincoln fears that very few can actually think and speak at the same time.”
-- Norman Corwin

#Moving Quotes #Blow Quotes #Thinking Quotes
“There's no set designer like your own self; you furnish the mise-en-scÃ¨ne, the wardrobe, the physical proportions of the actor, and the setting. Then radio is doing something that television very rarely achieves.”
-- Norman Corwin

#Self Quotes #Actors Quotes #Television Quotes
“Photography is to the layman perhaps the most enticing art. As a buff and a follower, at a respectful distance, I find myself like others, having the heart of a Steiglitz with hands that sometimes seem impeded by boxing gloves. What is exasperating is that one can feel closer to managing the skills of photography than most other arts, and yet be a long hop, skip and delusional way from it.”
-- Norman Corwin

#Photography Quotes #Art Quotes #Distance Quotes
“Yes, aging can be tough and rough... But it is possible to approach the ultimate without staggering and even with a kind of glow, like a radiant sunset.”
-- Norman Corwin

#Sunset Quotes #Age Quotes #Tough Quotes
“The ability of Americans to toss off oppressive characters is the most rewarding aspect, to me, of U.S. history.”
-- Norman Corwin

#Character Quotes #Toss Quotes #Aspect Quotes

“Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes less than themselves.”

Source : Cats (1934) p. 20
“Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.”
“Then it suddenly and theatrically began to clean itself in the way cats do when they want you to know what a big deal you aren't.”

Source : Jeramey Kraatz, Adam Rex, Adam Jay Epstein, Andrew Jacobson, Tim Green (2012). “Class Acts Kids' Ebook Sampler”, p.55, Harper Collins
“As far as pets go, a cat is a nice on to have.”
“the tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.”
“You were a stray cat, strutting so free and full of pride. But I could see your open wound. And without really thinking I just chalked it up to another cool thing about you. I never realized how much you hurt.”
“Say, Nana... You look like stray cat, wild and proud. But I can see the wound in your heart. At the time I just thought it was cool. I never realized how hurt you were.”
“With one of the most bewitching sounds in the world, its purr, the cat persuades us that it thinks we are wonderful.”
“Every time a boy falls off a tricycle, every time a black cat has gray kittens, every time someone stubs a toe, every time there's a murder or a fire or the marines land in Nicaragua, the police and the newspapers holler 'get Capone.'”

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