Norton Juster Quotes

The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.

Norton Juster

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• Montenegro belongs to a rare number of countries that have managed to make progress on every internationally recognisable indicator.

  

  Igor Luksic
  • Progress
  • Number
  • Rare

• I respect music, I do. I love it.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Music
  • Love
  • Respect

• More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Experience
  • Movie
  • Myself

• I never wanted to be one of those 'Where are they now?' kids.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Kids
  • Never
  • Now

• Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Want
  • Positive
  • Inspire

• For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Me
  • Like

• Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • World
  • God
  • Heart

• It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Health
  • Weight
  • Obvious

• When you know that you can overcome challenges, you do gain that self-respect, and then you won't end up in a situation that you regret later on.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Up
  • Respect
  • End

• We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Humanity
  • Learn
  • Understand

• Angela Bassett is a friend of mine and someone who I truly admire tremendously in terms of her work and her choices.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Work
  • Friend
  • Choices

• I believe as a born-again Christian that once you've had a chance to drink from the well, it becomes your responsibility to replenish the well.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Believe
  • Responsibility
  • Christian

• I think sexuality is fluid, and we have such a strange relationship to it in this country. It's been so fixed and so controlled for so long.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Long
  • Country
  • Think

• I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Play
  • Wind
  • Los Angeles

• Great songwriting will never die - it's in the DNA of music - but what's new and exciting is pairing that with new sounds that technology is enabling us to make.

  

  Flume
  • Great
  • Music
  • Die

• What I'll take credit for is finding visionary people in the company, or bringing them in, and then empowering them to help me.

  

  Parker Harris
  • People
  • Help
  • Me

• There are four different theories concerning Divine Providence; they are all ancient, known from the time of the Prophets, when the true law was revealed to enlighten these dark regions.

  

  Maimonides
  • Time
  • Different
  • True

• Sometimes they seem like living shapes, - The people of the sky, - Guests in white raiment coming down From heaven, which is close by; I call them by familiar names, As one by one draws nigh.

  

  Lucy Larcom
  • People
  • Heaven
  • Sky

• Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness.

  

  Ben Casnocha
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• As much as I try, when I open my mouth, Lena comes out, And I get so mad.

  

  Lena Horne
  • Mad
  • Mouth

• 'Baker Towers' is the book I've always known I would write, but it wasn't an easy book to do.

  

  Jennifer Haigh
  • Book

• The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other errors. Can I finally hide from myself the fact that even today my old age is still stirred by the noonday demon when my eyes, in choir, happen to linger on the beardless face of a novice, pure and fresh as a maidens?

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Age
  • Today
  • Eyes

• I work in celestial mechanics, but I am not interested in getting to the moon.

  

  Marston Morse
  • Work
  • Moon
  • Mechanic

• The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Important
  • Reason
  • Travel