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

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• I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but 'Cabin In The Woods' cranks it up a few notches and becomes outrageous and totally bizarre.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Up
  • Mean
  • Supernatural

• Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Face
  • Act
  • Infinity

• 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

• If you want to understand what it means to be afraid, what fear as experienced by human beings is, then your focus must shift. No longer will you be satisfied with mechanical, physiological, neurological accounts. For this inquiry will require you to observe closely what human beings feel, sing, think, write and say to one another.

  

  David Roochnik
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Mean

• There's nothing on earth to do here but look at the view and eat. You can imagine the result since I do not like to look at views.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Earth
  • Looks
  • Views

• Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Work
  • Spiritual
  • Humility

• ...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