Norton Juster Quotes
Where is the sound?" someone hastily scribbled on the blackboard, and they all waited anxiously for the reply. Milo caught his breath, picked up the chalk, and explained simply, "It's on the tip of my tongue.Norton Juster
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
Rabindranath Tagore -
I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.
Victoria Jackson -
'Badlands' is a very tangible record; a lot of the sounds were actual things: they were pots and pans, and they were rocks, and they were voices,and instruments used in a way to create a landscape of sound.
Halsey -
Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.
Wale -
With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless.
Vince Neil Mötley Crüe -
I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.
Rachel Maddow
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I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
Zadie Smith -
Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
Francesca Annis -
Music is what our feelings sound like.
Vera Farmiga -
I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.
M. Ward -
That rockabilly sound wasn't as simple as I thought it was.
Carl Perkins -
I try to find 15 minutes a day to just be alone without any distractions just for headspace to meditate and get my Zen on. I think that helps me get through the hecticness of the day on tour with the interviews, the sound check, the meet and greets, the show and the post-show meet and greets.
G-Eazy
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A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.
R. L. Stine -
It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
H. L. Mencken -
O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.
Quintus Ennius -
I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that sound selfish?
Jack Kevorkian -
I go out with a lot of British people. Some of them say I sound a little tipsy.
Callan McAuliffe -
I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is.
Kylie Minogue
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When it comes to jump-starting the intricate machinery of recollection, there's nothing more effective than the scent of approaching death.
Gary Krist -
At the end of the day, I'm a human being.
Quinton Jackson -
Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents, talk constantly in front of company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.
Socrates -
Where is the sound?" someone hastily scribbled on the blackboard, and they all waited anxiously for the reply. Milo caught his breath, picked up the chalk, and explained simply, "It's on the tip of my tongue.
Norton Juster