Norton Juster Quotes

Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?

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• Revolutionary art anticipates visionary physics. When the vision of the revolutionary artist, rooted in the Dionysian right hemisphere, combines with precognition, art will prophesy the future conception of reality.

  

  Leonard Shlain
  • Art
  • Future
  • Reality

• You can teach students how to work; you can teach them technique - how to use reason; you can even give them a sense of proportions - of order. You can teach them general principles.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Work
  • Students
  • Principles

• Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Women
  • Defend
  • Attacking

• I don't feel like I have anything to prove, I'm not trying to be like 'this is me'. It's not anything like that, it's just fun songs, throwing my hair around.

  

  Nadine Coyle
  • Trying
  • Fun
  • Hair

• A bully is fighting out of a need to dominate. And is usually unwilling to take the consequences.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • Fighting
  • Consequences
  • Dominate

• If you push yourself to stay hungry, you're always working towards at least taking steps forward. If you're taking steps forward, then you're making progress.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Progress
  • Steps
  • Hungry

• I'm not a daily coffee guy at all, or energy drinks or anything like that.

  

  Stephen Curry
  • Guy
  • Daily
  • Coffee

• A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all.

  

  Euripides
  • House
  • Wife
  • Wise Man

• I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn't stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • People
  • World
  • Done

• The Russian people chose democracy at the beginning of the 1990s and this was their final choice.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Choices

• With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Wisdom
  • Impossible
  • Judging

• I've always been able to make a living, a pretty decent one. The progress has always been steady, if not spectacular. Now when I audition, I go up against people like Juliette Lewis and Joan Cusack, and, quite frankly, if the producers can get them, they're not going to take me. I'm still pretty much a medium potato.

  

  Yeardley Smith
  • Progress
  • Steady
  • Spectacular

• As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that strange sight.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Needs
  • Reach
  • Circle

• Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard.

  

  Scott McCloud
  • Communication
  • Heard
  • Voices

• I don't think you've ever heard anything bad about me, and I'd like to keep it that way.

  

  Slim Whitman
  • Anything
  • Heard
  • About

• I used to say things like, 'My name's not Al (Bundy), you know?' Not to the press, but to fans. 'My name is actually Ed.' I'd find myself saying that, and I'd think, 'Who do you think they think you are? They only know you from that!' And finally I just got...I don't know, I guess a switch went on for me, and I realized, 'This was the greatest job that you've ever had in your life. Why are you acting like an asshole?' So from that minute on, I kind of...well, I hate the word 'embraced,' but I just kind of went, 'Yeah, okay.' 'So you're Al, right?' 'Yep!'

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Life
  • Why
  • Job

• Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?

  

  Norton Juster
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