Norton Juster Quotes

...it's very much like your trying to reach infinity. You know that it's there, you just don't know where-but just because you can never reach it doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for.

Norton Juster

• Mean
• Knows
• Infinity

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Freedom
  • Mean
  • Journalism

• Wagner is contrapuntal in a philosophical way as well as a musical way. What I mean by that is that every tendency has its opposite, and you see that in the man himself. He's a metaphysical hermaphrodite - he embraces hard and soft, masculine and feminine.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Man
  • Mean
  • See

• I don't have a Twitter or a Facebook, but that doesn't mean I'm any more productive than the rest of the world.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • World
  • Mean
  • Rest

• You know, I've been playing with my hair color ever since I was nine.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Hair
  • Color
  • Knows

• I don't know anything about the Appalachian mountains or cowboys and Indians or anything. I just made it up.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Up
  • Knows
  • Mountain

• I said excuse me you're a hell of a guy, I mean my my my my you're like pelican fly!

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Guy
  • Mean
  • Fly

• Success means different things to different people. To me, the greatest quality of successful human beings is the ability to love.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Different
  • Success

• The best criticism is the sort that tells you what you already know but had been reluctant to accuse yourself of.

  

  J. D. McClatchy
  • Knows
  • Criticism
  • Reluctant

• So violent. You want to mug and tase everybody these days." "I do," Zuzana agreed. "I swear I hate more poeple every day. Everyone annoys me. If I'm like this now, what am I going to be like when I'm old?" "You'll be the mean old biddy who fires a BB gun at kids from her balcony." "Nah. BBs just rile 'em up. More like a crossbow. Or a bazooka.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Hate

• Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Men
  • Real
  • Mean

• You could have the world in the palm of your hand, but it don't mean a thing 'til you change it.

  

  Mac Miller
  • World
  • Hand
  • Mean

• I don't want to wrong anybody, so I won't go so far as to say that she actually wrote poetry, but her conversation, to my mind, was of a nature calculated to excite the liveliest of suspicions. Well, I mean to say, when a girl suddenly asks you out of a blue sky if you don't sometimes feel that the stars are God's daisy-chain, you begin to think a bit.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • God
  • Mind
  • She

• If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Way
  • Knows
  • Ifs

• If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer and sickle. I just want to reproduce the objects for what they are, not for what they mean.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • People
  • Thinking
  • May

• I mean, if you think about - if you think about it, UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? No, they are. It's the Post Office that's always having problems.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Mean
  • Office

• And with iPods and iPads, and Xboxes and PlayStations - none of which I know how to work - information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Mean
  • Xbox

• When Gerard took over, he was trying to get us back on track, but he was also trying to ease our pain. Now, it's a fresh start for everyone and it's time for us to make a move. He knows that and he's not letting anything slide.

  

  Luke Richardson
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Pain

• Raindrops keep fallin' on my head. But that doesn't mean my eyes will soon be turning red. Crying's not for me. Cause I ain't gonna stop the rain by complaining.

  

  Billy Joe "B.J." Thomas
  • Stop
  • Eyes
  • Mean

• Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Knows
  • Books
  • Extract

• Who know what life is going to be like. I mean, there was no demand for the spaces before. It's not like people were flocking to Sochi before; they just didn't have enough hotel rooms and arenas to fill the need. So that's what we'll look at when we go there. But we'll wait a few years until things kind of return to normal.

  

  Gary Hustwit
  • People
  • Mean
  • Enough

• Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Money
  • Happiness

• One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Words
  • Imagination

• ...it's very much like your trying to reach infinity. You know that it's there, you just don't know where-but just because you can never reach it doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Mean
  • Knows
  • Infinity