Norton Juster Quotes

Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.

Norton Juster

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• Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Fear
  • Worst
  • Hazards

• I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • Great
  • Family
  • America

• As a kid, I was so short, it was tough for me to keep up with the taller guys. I always had quick feet, but I just didn't have any power, really, as a kid.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Up
  • Power
  • Feet

• I had to be reminded that the guitar is infinite. It never stops teaching you, it never stops being difficult; there's an unlimited amount of things to learn, and you'll never master it.

  

  Kaki King
  • You
  • Learn
  • Guitar

• The best physique I ever had was when I was ballet dancing.

  

  Manu Bennett
  • Best
  • Ballet
  • Dancing

• I came from a crew, and to me, all the guys I rapped with were better than me, so I was surprised when I was the breakout one. It was definitely a cool thing.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Cool
  • Better
  • Guys

• Yet now, as he roared across the night sky toward an unknown destiny, he found himself facing that bleak and ultimate question which so few men can answer to their satisfaction. What have I done with my life, he asked himself, that the world will be poorer if I leave it.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Life
  • World
  • Men

• Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Success
  • Marriage
  • Poverty

• I try to balance it out on the whole. Being a mum is always the priority. Next, it's taking care of yourself. Right now, I get to only work two days a week - it's a dream. I can't imagine how hard it is for mothers who work 40 hours a week.

  

  Marcia Cross
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Balance

• To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Public
  • Sanity
  • Disagree

• I jump from one thing to the next but try and strike a balance. But it's not nostalgic in the sense of 'those were the good old days and now we're not there'. I don't think like that. Not my way.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• What a dog I got. Last night he went on the paper four times - three while I was reading it.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Night
  • Reading
  • Dog

• If you can only believe! If you will only believe! Then nothing, nothing, will be impossible for you! That is the truth and the Gospel, and it is wonderful. It's the good news.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Believe
  • Gospel
  • Good News

• One of the hardest things to do in acting is to stop thinking about yourself and stop being self-conscious.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Thinking
  • Stop
  • Acting

• Under Tunisian law, a woman can divorce her husband. Total equality.

  

  Rashid al-Ghannushi
  • Husband
  • Equality
  • Divorce

• Demands for equal financing of sewers, streets, and garbage collection would make more sense than proposals for equal financing of the schools, since some plausible connection may be inferred between the amount of money expended, e.g., for roads, and the quality of service resulting to the taxpayer.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Money
  • May
  • Quality

• Over-excitement and boredom are states of mind which I equally shun.

  

  E. V. Knox
  • Mind
  • Excitement
  • Boredom

• Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Poor
  • Manage
  • Infinity