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

• Sometimes you think they must have come out of the chimp cages at the Bronx zoo.

  

  Gerry Cheevers
  • Come Out
  • Zoo
  • Cages

• I'm on the Facebook board now. Little did they know that I thought Facebook was really stupid when I first heard about it back in 2005.

  

  Reed Hastings
  • Stupid
  • Heard
  • Boards

• Novel-writing is a highly skilled and laborious trade. One does not just sit behind a screen jotting down other people's conversation. One has for one's raw material every single thing one has ever seen or heard or felt, and one has to go over that vast, smoldering rubbish-heap of experience, half stifled by fumes and dust, scraping and delving until one finds a few discarded valuables. Then one has to assemble these tarnished and dented fragments, polish them, set them in order, and try to make a coherent and significant arrangement of them.

  

  Evelyn Waugh
  • Conversation
  • Heard
  • Material

• Many Christians dread the thought of leaving this world. Why? Because so many have stored up their treasures on earth, not in heaven. Each day brings us closer to death. If your treasures are on earth, that means each day brings you closer to losing your treasures.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • World
  • Leaving
  • Christians

• In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.

  

  Will Durant
  • History
  • Christians
  • Persecutions

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

  

  Norton Juster
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