Norton Juster Quotes

It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would have been here much sooner if I hadn't made so many mistakes. I'm afraid it's all my fault.

Norton Juster

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• Princess
• Faults
• Climbing
• Couches

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• You really are being quite foolish to smoke.

  

  Iain Glen
  • You
  • Foolish
  • Smoke

• Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Good
  • Long
  • Health

• Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Great
  • Art
  • Steal

• Keep your energy levels high by adding bananas and egg whites to your diet.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • High
  • Energy
  • Diet

• For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Important
  • Children
  • Food

• I have never played a role in which someone's dark side shouldn't be explored.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Dark
  • Never
  • Dark Side

• I have disassociated myself from that book.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Book
  • Myself

• I'm strong. I like to mother people, look after people. I lead the gang.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • People
  • Mother
  • Strong

• Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Men
  • Moral
  • Wine

• I've been careful to work with good people on interesting material, mostly.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Personally, I believe people who have a lots of memories are people who are living with zest.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • People
  • Believe
  • Memories

• Imagine choosing a job not on money or even on career advancement, but as part of a life worth living.

  

  Dale Dauten
  • Life
  • Money
  • Job

• Mrs. Robbins asked: 'If I am not for myself, who then is for me?'-and she was for herself so passionately that the other people in the world decided that they were not going to let Pamela Robbins beat them at her own game, and stopped playing.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • People
  • World
  • She

• I don't really watch my moves all that often; I mean, really, I don't.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

• Police departments across the nation must develop nonviolent 'rules of engagement,' so that they don't reflexively respond to suspected crimes with violence. This will require more in-depth training in the behavioral psychology of conflict resolution so police have tried-and-true techniques of preventing and de-escalating violence.

  

  Bernice King
  • True
  • Violence
  • Training

• For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.

  

  Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead
  • Real
  • Political
  • Spiritual

• Something about theatre perhaps scared me.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Theatre

• Servers make very little in regular wages and largely rely on tips to pay the bills and budget for weeks ahead.

  

  Kevin McCarthy

• My favorite holiday memory is making gingerbread houses. It's something I've done with my children since they were born.

  

  Yolanda Hadid
  • Children
  • Done
  • Holiday

• A solitary ascetic is a symbol of the most cowardly egotism; a hermit who flees from his brothers instead of helping them to carry the burden of life, to work for others, and to put their shoulders to the wheel of social life, is a coward who hides himself when the battle is on, and goes to sleep drunk on an opiate.

  

  H. P. Blavatsky
  • Life
  • Work
  • Sleep

• I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Trying
  • Fear
  • Education

• It may seem hard to extend our gratefulness and appreciation to the time in which we live and the challenges it presents... It would be much easier to appreciate an era of good feeling, peace and calm stability! But difficult times are also times of growth, of new insights and opportunities, of creativity, and of emergence.

  

  David Spangler
  • Opportunity
  • Feelings
  • inspirational

• It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would have been here much sooner if I hadn't made so many mistakes. I'm afraid it's all my fault.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Mistake
  • inspirational
  • Princess