Norton Juster Quotes

Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.

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• Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Special
  • Fact
  • Elements

• Life isn't always really glamorous and fabulous. It's about encouraging people to go back to natural beauty.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • People
  • Life
  • Beauty

• With George Bush's policies, I could make an argument for how they affect black people in a negative way. You know what I mean? But I wouldn't argue that he's a white supremacist.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Black
  • Negative

• My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Life
  • Suffering
  • Difficult

• the large black slugs ... come out at dusk. Enormous slugs. As big as crocodiles. So huge we need a gun to shoot them. And by the end of the summer, if they go on growing, we shall have to go out in pairs together for protection.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • Together
  • Black
  • Growing

• With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be worthless. I don't think the essence of photography has the hand in it so much. The essence is done very quietly with a flash of the mind, and with a machine. I think too that photography is editing, editing after the taking. After knowing what to take, you have to do the editing.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Mind
  • Done
  • Hand

• Sometimes we need to let go of things in our lives to make room for better things. Stress less and live more. Don't waste your energy, when you have the choice to be happy.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Live
  • Happy
  • Energy

• I didn't know you would be here last night, but you were. We can't fight fate. Instead, we must accept that fate has given us a special opportunity.

  

  Lisa See
  • Night
  • Opportunity
  • Fight

• Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them.

  

  Anna Katharine Green
  • Capable
  • Adventures

• Art is viable when it finds elements in the surrounding environment. Our ancestors drew their subject matter from the religious attitudes which weighed on their souls. We must now learn to draw inspiration from the tangible miracles around us.

  

  Umberto Boccioni
  • Art
  • Environment
  • Religious

• In magic, man has to rely on himself. So, in religion, of course, you're looking for outside support but that's the appeal of magic.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Men
  • Support
  • Magic

• I've heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we haven't enough great leaders. I think we haven't enough great followers. I have stood side by side with great thinkers - surgeons, engineers, economists; people who deserve a great following - and have heard the crowd cheer me instead.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of my all-time favorite writers. I feel spiritual when reading his words, even though they're translated. I wish desperately that I could read it in its original language. I already feel like I'm going to church when I read him; imagine if I could read it in the original.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Reading
  • Wish
  • Spiritual

• At least they never do it while I'm in the house, because that would make me quite literally barf my lentils.

  

  Anthony McGowan
  • House
  • Lentils
  • Barf

• When something happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or get better.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Choices
  • Better
  • Happens

• I believe that nothing happens by chance. Deep down, things have their secret plan, even though we don’t understand it.

  

  Carlo D'Este
  • Chance
  • Secret
  • Nothing

• I think I was born to be a figure skater, I think it was fate, and I thank God for letting it happen.

  

  Evgeni Plushenko
  • Happens
  • Skater

• Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.

  

  Norton Juster
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