Norton Juster Quotes

I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit.

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• Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • People
  • Up
  • Saying

• Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Childhood

• The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.

  

  Abdoulaye Wade
  • Education
  • Teacher
  • Thought

• It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Good
  • Me
  • Reputation

• Peace along with freedom and justice are the pillars for attaining both security and stability and will pave the way towards the eradication of oppression, extremism, and terrorism in our world.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Peace

• Blacks have had to learn to protect themselves by being cynical but not cynical enough to slam the door on potential opportunities. We go through life walking a tightrope to prevent too much disillusionment.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Life
  • Door
  • Walking

• And I'll tell you, honestly, folks that I talk to, the 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in America, that I am one of, understand that we're done with insurance companies dropping us or denying us coverage because of - because we have a preexisting condition.

  

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  • Done
  • America
  • Cancer

• If you are a writer from Turkey, Pakistan, Nigeria, Egypt, you don't have the luxury of being apolitical. You can't say, 'That's politics. I'm just doing my work.'

  

  Elif Safak
  • Work

• I think one of the geniuses of Bound and The Matrix and Memento is the complete collaboration of the effort. There were no rotten apples.

  

  Joe Pantoliano
  • Effort
  • Collaboration
  • Matrix

• I don't think I've made my favorite film yet. But I loved 'Bamboozled.' 'Bamboozled' to me is off the chain. It's definitely in the ranking. I loved 'Bamboozled.'

  

  Jada Pinkett Smith

• I don't like karaoke. But maybe that's why I'm so perfect for 'Lip Sync Battle,' because I get to still hear the song I love and watch the performances that I love without having to hear someone sing.

  

  Chrissy Teigen
  • Why
  • Song
  • Perfect

• Every time I work, it's an educational process because I learn by watching other actors. My career is always going to be an ongoing study.

  

  Bill Nunn
  • Time
  • Work
  • Career

• The regulations keep on coming. And we are trying to make decisions that we will be happy with for decades.

  

  Lynn Good
  • Trying
  • Happy

• In the developing world, people often use quite basic technology. Many of the most imaginative schemes are using what we'd count as old tech.

  

  Charles Leadbeater
  • People
  • World
  • Technology

• Ful weel she soong the service dyvyne, Entuned in hir nose ful semely, And Frenssh she spak ful faire and fetisly, After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe, For Frenssh of Parys was to hire unknowe.

  

  Geoffrey Chaucer
  • She
  • Service

• I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Looks
  • Ego

• One of the most difficult questions to answer in Christian work is, 'What do you expect to do?' You don't know what you are going to do. The only thing you know is that God knows what He is doing.......Hav e you been asking what God is going to do? He will never tell you. God does not tell you what He is going to do. He reveals to you who he is.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Work
  • God
  • Christian

• Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.

  

  John C. Maxwell

• Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Life
  • Forever
  • inspirational

• All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Habit
  • Morality
  • Theologians

• Habit! that skilful but slow-moving arranger who begins by letting our minds suffer for weeks on end in temporary quarters, but whom our minds are none the less only too happy to discover at last, for without it, reduced to their own devices, they would be powerless to make any room seem habitable.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Habit
  • Discover
  • Suffer

• I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Habit
  • Jobs
  • Tasks