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

• 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
  • Small
  • Interesting

• 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 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

• I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at Cambridge and had no space to keep books.

  

  Emma Donoghue
  • Book
  • Giving
  • Space

• Every time I got close, somebody seemed to play a little better.

  

  Fuzzy Zoeller
  • Time

• I was the last person to get high-speed Internet, I was the last person to get an iPod, the last person to get an iPhone... I travel to India for one month out of the year and I don't have a phone there, so I can go without, which is beautiful, too.

  

  Lindsey McKeon
  • High
  • Beautiful
  • Travel

• There are two kinds of typical days. There's the typical day when I'm writing a novel, and there's the typical day when I'm not.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Writing
  • Kind
  • Novel

• In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough. What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Brain

• Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Great
  • True
  • Dreams

• I always consider myself lucky that I can actually cry listening to some music.

  

  Itzhak Perlman
  • Music
  • Lucky
  • Cry

• 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