Norton Juster Quotes

When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.

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• I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Anything
  • Much
  • Pessimistic

• We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • School
  • Home
  • Kids

• I lose film roles because I'm a person who doesn't keep quiet about certain things. But if my heart tells me something is wrong, I'm going to go and do something about it.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Film
  • Person
  • Certain

• Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • American
  • English
  • Literature

• Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Together
  • Dark
  • Chocolate

• My parents and my brother instilled in me my sense of humor. That's kind of the way we communicate with each other, and it's always been a way for me to get to know people.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Parents
  • Brother

• I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents' farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Up
  • Try
  • Grandparents

• The beautiful thing is that ageism just doesn't exist on 'EastEnders.' The show saved me.

  

  Barbara Windsor
  • Beautiful
  • Me
  • Show

• I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • College
  • Everything
  • Quit

• There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Years
  • Evidence
  • Over

• It's super dope when you connect with something personally.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • You
  • Something
  • Dope

• I think I've been a great citizen.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Great
  • Think
  • Citizen

• In the long run, we will need many more African-American, Latino, and Native American leaders, and leaders from low-income communities, who can bring additional insight and a deeply grounded sense of urgency, and who are the most likely to inspire the necessary trust and engagement among students' parents and community leaders.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Long
  • American
  • Parents

• A lot of people look at playing overseas as a step down from the NBA. And, yes it is a step down from the NBA money-wise, but there is just as good of talent overseas as in the NBA. Not better talent.

  

  Udonis Haslem
  • People
  • Good
  • Money

• The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.

  

  Ed Markey
  • War
  • Terrorism
  • Engage

• There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Good
  • Rules
  • Some

• Acknowledging your mistakes also has its pluses, but we often don't have trouble recalling or mulling over those. The point is, if you don't acknowledge your successes the same way you acknowledge your mistakes, you're sure to have a memory full of blunders.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Same
  • Mistakes
  • Memory

• As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Opportunity
  • Audience
  • Stage

• The military has a very long relationship with Hollywood that dates back to the silent film era.

  

  Nick Turse
  • Long
  • Film
  • Military

• A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Facts
  • Optimist
  • Pessimist

• But Dobby shouted, "You shall not harm Harry Potter! ... He got up, face livid, and pulled out his wand, but Dobby raised a long, threatening finger. "You shall go now," he said fiercely, pointing down at Mr. Malfoy. "You shall not touch Harry Potter. You shall go now.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • Long

• What smells so? Has somebody been burning a Rag, or is there a Dead Mule in the Back yard? No, the Man is Smoking a Five-Cent Cigar.

  

  Eugene Field
  • Burning
  • Cigar
  • Smells

• When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.

  

  Norton Juster
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  • Facts