Norton Juster Quotes

You may not see it now," said the Princess of Pure Reason, looking knowingly at Milo's puzzled face, "but whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way.

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• I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • New
  • New York
  • Driver

• As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'

  

  Dan T. Cathy
  • God
  • Society
  • Marriage

• Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Family
  • Hand
  • Laws

• Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Time
  • Long
  • Today

• It's like deja-vu, all over again.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Like
  • Over
  • Again

• I like having a good time. It's probably my mother's Brazilian genes in me - party, party.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Mother

• Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • House

• Immortality gets very, very boring. You'd be surprised at how interesting the small mundanities of life can seem after a few millennia.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Life
  • Interesting
  • Small

• So I go back and forth foreverAll my thoughts they come in pairsOh I will, I won't, I doubt, I don't,I'm not surprised but I never feel quite prepared

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Thoughts
  • Doubt

• Quotes of Calder (1932), from Abstraction-Création, Art Non Figuratif, no. 1, 1932; Republished in: Alexander Calder, A. S. C. Rower, Ugo Mulas, Pier Giovanni Castagnoli, Palazzo delle esposizioni (Rome, Italy) Calder: Sculptor of Air, Motta, 2009. p. 111 & p. 222

  

  Alexander Calder
  • Art
  • Air

• Ye that follow the vision Of the world's weal afar, Have ye met with derision And the red laugh of war; Yet the thunder shall not hurt you, Nor the battle-storms dismay; Tho' the sun in heaven desert you, 'Love will find out the way.'

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • World
  • War
  • Heaven

• To be truly 'soigne,' a man should have 80 suits.

  

  Jean Patou

• I've always been interested in the intersection between our rational and our unconscious lives.

  

  Kathryn Harrison

• This sordid affair has become an unacceptable distraction for Representative Weiner, his family, his constituents and the House - and for the good of all, he should step aside and address those things that should be most important - his and his family's well-being.

  

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  • Good
  • Important
  • Family

• I would wear the blue overalls of the fieldworker and often wore round, rimless glasses known as Mazzawati teaglasses. I had a car, and I wore a chauffeur's cap with my overalls. The pose of chauffeur was convenient because I could travel under the pretext of driving my master's car.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Car
  • Travel
  • Blue

• I feel like people start to believe things that people say about them and start to think they're really important. If you have a family that is down to earth and cool, I don't see how you can be like that.

  

  Amanda Bynes
  • People
  • Believe
  • Important

• Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

  

  Jean Paul
  • Life
  • Time

• I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it.

  

  Anthony Storr
  • Writing
  • Book

• Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I've regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.

  

  Adam Savage
  • Work
  • Done
  • Control

• The best simulator for spacewalking is underwater - it allows full visuals and body movement in 3D. Virtual reality is good, too, and has some advantages, like full Station simulation, not just part. Like all simulators, they have parts that are wrong and misleading: an important thing to remember when preparing for reality.

  

  Chris Hadfield
  • Good
  • Important
  • Remember

• The joke I always make about myself is that I'm self-involved, but I'm not vain.

  

  Lena Dunham

• The whole basis for our relationship with God is rooted and grounded in grace, in that which is not earned.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Relationship
  • Grace

• Some girls are apparently born with dates; some through much personal activity, achieve them; but others seem by necessity to have dates thrust upon them.

  

  Bess Streeter Aldrich
  • Achieve
  • Girls
  • Dates

• You may not see it now," said the Princess of Pure Reason, looking knowingly at Milo's puzzled face, "but whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way.

  

  Norton Juster
  • May
  • Purpose
  • Reason