Tuesday , 21 January 2025

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for January 19, 2025

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for January 19, 2025

All is accounted for except the farmer’s boy and the mill hand who lived near the canal, and the young men from the city block where the gutters fry in summer.             One of ...

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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for January 12, 2025

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for January 12, 2025

They’ve given their noons to their country, They’ve trusted their girls to you. They are face to face with an ally’s earth For a bunch of tomorrows. “14 August” broadcast August 1 ...

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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for January 5, 2025

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for January 5, 2025

The lingo is polite as varnish,Sincere as the wax-faced undertaker saying, “We are sorry about your loss.”And after the notes are exchanged, and high respects transmitted like wir ...

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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for December 29, 2024

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for December 29, 2024

Ah, well, there are no rents or levies in cardboard housing; the only taxes are on health and dignity. Certain amenities are absent, such as walls and a roof, yet the floor is alw ...

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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for December 22, 2024

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for December 22, 2024

The ultimate in trivialization is to reduce the capacity and will of people to think for themselves. In that exercise mediocritization has always had its strongest support, corrob ...

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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for December 15, 2024

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for December 15, 2024

Beaches without beachheads. Jobs without sergeants. Gunners who tilted the guns of battleships and stoked them in epic combat, will ride the level ferries of bay and river. “Fifty ...

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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for December 8, 2024

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for December 8, 2024

Broadcasters are invariably miffed by criticism of their product and practices, and they protest as invariably that they are only giving people what they want. But the people have ...

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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for December 1, 2024

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for December 1, 2024

I never have an outline before I begin. It’s all chaos. From the book, “Years of the Electric Ear” (1994) ...

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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for November 24, 2024

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for November 24, 2024

Man is the only animal that smiles, and Americans are the only people who have made an industry of it.  “Ready, Aim, Smile” from the book “Trivializing America” (1983) ...

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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for November 17, 2024

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for November 17, 2024

However, in the matter of the kid who used to deliver folded newspapers to your doorstep, flipping them sideways from his bicycle, And who died on a jeep in the Ruhr, There is no ...

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