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In quietness the soul expands, — Rockwell Kent

Things aren't much wilder now, I don't think, than they were back then. Of course I just read about all the goings-on now. Ha. — Norman Rockwell

Norman Rockwell saved my life. — Jane Allen Petrick

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

I've done so many independents for so many years. Leads that nobody's seen. — Sam Rockwell

Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools. — Ken Rockwell

If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet. — Brad Holland

I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors. — Sam Rockwell

Travel is like a tonic to me. It's more than just getting away from the studio for a brief rest. I need it to recharge my batteries. — Norman Rockwell

Some actors don't want to, but I prefer to. I like to collaborate. Sometimes you have to keep it to yourself, and people want to do their own thing. — Sam Rockwell

What we need is a new consciousness concerning the idea of human liberty. — Llewellyn Rockwell

I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I was 10 years old. — Sam Rockwell

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

Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times. — Llewellyn 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 work from fatigue to fatigue at my age there's only so much daylight left. — Norman Rockwell

It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president. — Norman Rockwell

The View of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and the ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be. — Norman Rockwell

The color of your skin is your uniform in this ultimate battle for the survival of the West. — George Lincoln Rockwell

Portable designs have the power to transform unused public spaces into dynamic environments that build and invite communal experiences. — David Rockwell

The state always poses a greater threat to society than whatever problem it purports to solve. — Llewellyn Rockwell

Money out of nothing is money that is eventually worth nothing. — Llewellyn Rockwell

Pledge allegiance to your principles, your family, your faith, but don't be foolish enough to pledge allegiance to a gang of thieves. — Llewellyn Rockwell

What makes for the good society is a sound economy. Without it, all the rest falls apart. — Llewellyn Rockwell

The private sector is creating a miracle a day, even as the stuff that government attempts is failing left and right. — Llewellyn Rockwell

Inside was a tableau of frustration that might've been straight out of Norman Rockwell, if Norman Rockwell had painted people doing hard time in jail. — Ransom Riggs

Dear God, grant me the violence to crush mine enemies.
Dear God, give me mechanical lungs, for when I'm drowning. — Aaron W. Rockwell

Among the most urgent political priorities of our age is the separation of economy and state. — Llewellyn Rockwell

Subsidies create more of whatever is being subsidized. — Llewellyn Rockwell

We must never again let America be led into a fratricidal war like the last two world wars, for the sake of alien, minority interests. — George Lincoln Rockwell

I don't think of myself as a brand. Branding to me feels like a position or identity that's frozen in time. I'm more interested in transitions. — David Rockwell

I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney. In that I really like to make people happy. — Thomas Kinkade

The laws of economics tell us that the expansion of the central state can't go on forever. Its limit is reached when the looted turn on the looters. — Llewellyn Rockwell

Photography is the power of observation, not the application of technology. — Ken Rockwell

I've done a lot of sorts of films that are under the radar. — Sam Rockwell

My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter. — Sam Rockwell

We like to imagine that in history, truth will prevail through sheer persuasive power. Sadly, this is not the case. Truth needs champions ... — Llewellyn Rockwell

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. — Norman Rockwell

Everything done by the state is ultimately done by means of aggression, which is to say violence or the threat of violence against the innocent. — Llewellyn Rockwell

I sometimes can't do movies just for the money. I really can't. I mean, I've tried. Believe me, I'd love to just take the money and run. — Sam Rockwell

The state is a vast enterprise for declaring all sorts of things legal for itself that would be illegal for us. — Llewellyn Rockwell

My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris. — Norman Rockwell

I didn't grow up in a Norman Rockwell house ... my house was more akin to Norman Lear. — Michael P. Naughton

We are the new "barbarians", forged in iron hardness in the fires of their hate and persecution. All over the world, we wait to pounce ... — George Lincoln Rockwell

Hollywood constantly wants to label you and type you into a certain category, 'Oh he's a comedy guy,' or the weirdo character guy or the villain. — Sam Rockwell

Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite. — Norman Rockwell

The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe. — Susan Cheever

Socialism crushes human rights, builds the state, impinges on the liberty of conscience, and breeds social, cultural, and economic degeneration. — Llewellyn Rockwell

A face in the picture would bother me, so I'd rub it out with the turpentine and do it over. — Norman Rockwell

There is nothing the state can do, and which society needs done, that cannot be done far better by the market. — Llewellyn Rockwell

Above all, ascribe no decent motives to the federal government. Always and everywhere, it is the enemy of truth. — Llewellyn Rockwell

Vaster is Man than his works. — Rockwell Kent

I think any good actor is an anarchist. They have to be. — Sam Rockwell

No state empowered to do what is supposedly necessary will restrain itself to those things. It will expand as much as public opinion will tolerate. — Llewellyn Rockwell

Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible. — Norman Rockwell

You hit 41 and you don't burn calories like you used to. — Sam Rockwell

If the public dislikes one of my Post covers, I can't help disliking it myself. — Norman Rockwell

Always and everywhere, the only serious political issue is what the state should and should not do. All the rest distracts. — Llewellyn Rockwell

No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them! — Norman Rockwell

Dreams are meant to be realized, not broken. — Michael A. Rockwell

The camera's only job is to get out of the way of making photographs. — Ken Rockwell

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

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. — Jesse Tyler Ferguson

An editor is like a painter. There is a magic in that. — Sam Rockwell

But I also think most people today lose the savor of love and sex through oversophistication and impatience. — George Rockwell

Sam Rockwell has a fantastic sense of rhythm — Duncan Jones

Every project is an opportunity to learn, to figure out problems and challenges, to invent and reinvent. — David Rockwell

I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin. — Sam Rockwell

If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised. — Rockwell Kent

I don't keep secrets from my parents, really; it's pretty open. — Sam Rockwell

Money is power and power gives you choice. — Sam Rockwell

"I tried, once," said Bernard, with a rueful smile. "Yup! I tried." He gazed thoughtfully out the window. — Carey Rockwell

Here in New England, the character is strong and unshakable. — Norman Rockwell

Capitalism, and capitalism alone, has rescued the human race from degrading poverty, rampant sickness and early death. — Llewellyn Rockwell

I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything. — Sam Rockwell

What the American worker needs is more of what WalMart offers and less of what the government offers. — Llewellyn Rockwell

It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script. — Sam Rockwell

I just wanted to do something important. — Norman Rockwell

I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.' — Sam Rockwell

The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor. — Steve Buscemi

Now I'm standing in black stiletto heels in the middle of a Norman Rockwell painting. (pg 106-107) — Katja Millay

I'm not going to just do a dumb zombie movie, although I love zombie movies. — Sam Rockwell

Where Norman Rockwell is the Artist for the man on the street, O'Henry is his author. — Sonia Rumzi

If there was sadness in this creative world of mine, it was a pleasant sadness. If there were problems, they were humorous problems. — Norman Rockwell

I'm tired, but proud. — Norman Rockwell

Guys like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sam Rockwell are the guys I look up to and have the kind of career I'd like to emulate. — Justin Long

I'm the oldest antique in town. — Norman Rockwell

I have memories of films that nobody ever saw, that I was very proud of, and those are still great memories. — Sam Rockwell

Big wheels work for us. — Anne F. Rockwell

Briefs need limitations and invitations — David Rockwell

I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to. — Norman Rockwell

Being prepared to die is one of the great secrets of living. — George Lincoln Rockwell

It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy. — Sam Rockwell

Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn. — Norman Rockwell

I paint life as I would like it to be, — Norman Rockwell

When evil rules a time and place, certain good people are called upon to tell the truth to those who don't want to hear it. — Anne F. Rockwell

After 40, you want to reverse the ageing process. That's complicated for me because I spent so many years wanting to be older. — Sam Rockwell

Well look at that. He's got the Rockwell genes. Maya's father gloated loudly over what Maya assumed was his third leg. — Melisa M. Hamling

Jews talk a lot about God. But actually their god, just like Marx said, is money. Cash! — George Lincoln Rockwell

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