The best Quotes by Norman Cousins

The best Quotes by Norman Cousins

Norman Cousins (June 24, 1915 – November 30, 1990) was an American political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

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Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

Laughing & Smile

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

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Ideas Libraries

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That's L.A. They worship everything and they value nothing.

Sebastian Wilder in La La Land

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Welcome to a city where people trying to disappear aren't actually trying.

Joe Goldberg in You - Season 2 Episode 2

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I lived in L.A. for a few months. It seemed like no one there had parents. Or if they did have parents, they would deny it.

Catherine O'Hara

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Linda: "Why did you decide to come to Los Angeles?"
Lucifer: "The same reason as everyone else: the weather, p*rnstars, Mexican food."

Lucifer Morningstar in Lucifer - Season 1 Episode 3

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People here in Los Angeles are disgusted now about a sex scandal involving Arnold Schwarzenegger. Apparently for seven years, he carried on a sexual relationship with his own wife.

Craig Kilborn

Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really droppped anchor.

Michael Connelly in The Lincoln Lawyer - The Brass Verdict

The L.A. weather is a lot like Taiwan's, where you don't observe four seasons, so the years can pass and you don't feel a thing.

Los Angeles Taiwan

You're lucky we're not in Los Angeles, because Angelinos can smell BS a mile away.

Melinda Monroe in Virgin River - Season 1 Episode 1

I'm from the Compton slums, and that's how the West ride
I'm from the city where two of the best died

The Game - The City, Album: The R.E.D. Album

The Notorious B.I.G.Eazy-E Los Angeles

I moved to Los Angeles for two reasons. One is to run away from a boy. Two is to chase a boy.

Kelly Mi Li in Bling Empire

If I lived in L.A., I'd be schizophrenic after a week.

Matthew Goode

I'm rich, I'm miserable - I'm pretty average for this town.

Michael De Santa in GTA - Grand Theft Auto - V

Riggs: "You want me to drive?"
Murtaugh: "No, you're supposed to be suicidal, remember? I'll drive."
Riggs: "Anybody who drives around in this town IS suicidal."

Martin Riggs in Lethal Weapon

Miss Carter, you have no idea how foreign Los Angeles will seem to a civilized person such as yourself. They eat avocados... with everything!

Edwin Jarvis in Agent Carter - Season 2 Episode 1

This is why you never go to New Jersey!

Donatello-TMNT in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

The results of a new study are out this week saying that New Jersey is one of the most livable states in the country. The study has a margin of error of 100 percent.

Conan O'Brien

Just when you thought things couldn't get any worse, we gotta go to Jersey.

Hulk in What If…? - Season 1 Episode 4

I feel like if you're in Jersey, you have to be a Jersey Devils fan. Anybody born within the confines of the border of the state of New Jersey, I feel, should be a Jersey Devils fan.

Kevin Smith

The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.

Harlan Coben

Los Angeles traffic is just the worst thing in the world. It throws off timing so much. However, it's always warm and sunny. New Jersey has absolutely terrible weather, but the environment is really homey and chill.

Christina Grimmie

Los Angeles New Jersey

You're asking me if I have any gum? That's like asking New Jersey if it has any sl-ts!

Max Black in 2 Broke Girls - Season 1 Episode 21

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to New Jersey - and that's pretty much the same thing.

There's no death for those who don't fear it.

Death is so close, always, a breath away, so perhaps it was wise to introduce children to that concept at an early age.

Harlan Coben in Fool Me Once

Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said.

Albert Camus in The Outsider

My son Jack once said to me, "Dad, do you think people are laughing with you or at you?"
I said, "I don't care as long as they're laughing."

Ozzy Osbourne

Laughing & Smile

For the soul, laughing is what oxygen is for the lungs.

Louis de Funès

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Laughing & Smile

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

Herman Melville in Moby-Dick

Laughing & Smile Positive Quotes

Hope is like the sun. If you only believe in it when you can see it, you'll never make it through the night.

Leia Organa in Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi

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You know what they say about hope. It breeds eternal misery.

Spencer Hastings in Pretty Little Liars - Season 1 Episode 1

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Hope Deep Quotes

Hope is like a shard of glass. Tread on it, and you'll end up wincing with every step. The best policy is to tweezer it out. Sure, it will hurt like billy-o and the wound will take a while to heal, but after that you can walk again.

Sebastian Fitzek in Therapy

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Hope Breakup Grief & Condolence

Sometimes all a girl really needed was a very bad idea.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games - The Hawthorne Legacy

Great execution is at least 10 times more important and a 100 times harder than a good idea.

Ideas are cheap and easy, and there are a lot of them.

In all of the world's books in all libraries in the universe, I couldn't find the words to describe what I feel about you.

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Love declerations Libraries

Libraries are the intellectual gas stations of the country.

Helmut Schmidt

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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Garden Libraries

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

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