Norton Juster Quotes

I don't know of any wrong road to Dictionopolis, so if this road goes to Dictionopolis at all it must be the right road, and if it doesn't it must be the right road to somewhere else, because there are no wrong roads to anywhere. Do you think it will rain?

Norton Juster

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• As the world undergoes a major transformation, it's the time of significant opportunity and also threat.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Time
  • World
  • Opportunity

• We believe in the vision of 'Make in India,' and our proposed joint venture with Rafael is a step in this direction.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Believe
  • Vision
  • Step

• I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Music
  • Story
  • Strange

• I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Great
  • May
  • Business

• I always do my interviews face to face.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Always
  • Face
  • Interviews

• I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.

  

  Larry King
  • Job
  • Friends
  • Movies

• It was always sort of my dream to make handbags and I wanted a handbag that was very sharp, very structured, very tailored... I wanted a bag you could put all of your things in it, you can open it, you could close it, you could hid all your tricks, but it's not all lumpy.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Dream
  • Always
  • Bag

• You may count on Mexico's support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • World
  • May
  • Experience

• Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.

  

  Hans Selye
  • Situation
  • Stress
  • Survival

• Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. If Nigeria succeeds at democratic governance it will be an anchor for all of West Africa. Africa needs a strong Nigeria.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Country
  • Strong
  • Anchor

• I believe that economic theory has arrived at a point in its development where the appeal to quantitative empirical data has become more necessary than ever. At the same time its analyses have reached a degree of complexity that require the application of a more refined scientific method than that employed by the classical economists.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Time
  • Believe

• The weather is so very mildThat some would call it warm.Good gracious, aren't we lucky, child?Here comes a thunderstorm.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Good

• No foreign sky protected me, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common lot, survivor of that time, that place. - 1961

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Time
  • Sky

• Just because something had spawned a myth did not automatically mean it had to contain anything of substance.

  

  Alastair Reynolds

• Yes, we record practically everything on Pro Tools.

  

  Caroline Corr

• Stay true to yourself, engage with your followers, and ignore the critics.

  

  Ella Woodward
  • True
  • Ignore

• I'm extremely blessed because I travel extensively for my work, but I always try to incorporate a bit of leisure with business.

  

  Linda Gray
  • Work
  • Business
  • Travel

• Most modern stuff I hear kinda sucks, someone should turn me onto something good, fast!

  

  Jim Diamond
  • Good

• Me against enemies, me against friends. Somehow theyboth seem to become one

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Friends
  • Enemy
  • Seems

• And I realized a wondrous truth: that knowledge could be our treasure, that there were things humankind knew that we did not, that our conquest need not comprise taking and killing, but could consist of our mutual conquest of ignorance and distrust.

  

  Rachel Hartman
  • Truth
  • Knowledge
  • Needs

• She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Rain
  • Lie
  • Good Day

• The biggest surprise on the soulful journey to authenticity, whether as a philosophy or a spiritual path, is that the path is a spiral. We go up, but we go in circles. Eash time around, the view gets a little bit wider.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Path
  • Journey
  • Surprise

• I don't know of any wrong road to Dictionopolis, so if this road goes to Dictionopolis at all it must be the right road, and if it doesn't it must be the right road to somewhere else, because there are no wrong roads to anywhere. Do you think it will rain?

  

  Norton Juster
  • Road
  • Knows
  • Rain