Norton Juster Quotes

You see, to tall men I'm a midget, and to short men I'm a giant; to the skinny ones I'm a fat man, and to the fat ones I'm a thin man.

Norton Juster

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• Planning is thinking beforehand how something is to be made or done, and mixing imagination with the product - which in a broad sense makes all of us planners. The only difference is that some people get a license to get paid for thinking and the rest of us just contribute our good thoughts to our fellow man.

  

  Paul Williams The Temptations
  • People
  • Good
  • Thinking

• My serve has killed a small dog ... I'm joking, I'm joking! The dog was huge!

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Small
  • Dog
  • Tennis

• Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.

  

  R. H. Tawney
  • Men
  • Wise
  • Clever

• A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Dreams
  • Burn

• He said he wasn't ready to come out. But then he sat down for a while, came back, and made a shot like that. We wanted him to rest his legs. Your legs can suffer when you take as many shots as he does.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Rest
  • Suffer
  • Legs

• Risks I think are the thing that make life important and everything that you and I do is risk vs. benefit. Is there a risk to sending your kid out? Absolutely. Is there a benefit? It exceeds the risk.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Life
  • Important
  • Risk

• The gospel is not itself about you are this sort of a person and this can happen to you. That's the result of the gospel rather than the gospel itself.

  

  N. T. Wright

• Our experience is that many people manage to give up for a while and then suffer a relapse.

  

  Brian Jones The Rolling Stones
  • Experience
  • Suffer
  • Manage

• We still don't know the facts. Prosecutors are looking into it, but it's hard to comment.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Facts
  • Comment
  • Prosecutors

• Give Me a Turkish Army. I will Conquer world.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • World
  • Army
  • Conquer

• A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Knows
  • Limits
  • Wise Girl

• The little boy inside of all us men always loves something video game related.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Men
  • Game
  • Boy

• I worked really hard, and I surpassed myself... I didn't have, visually, what it took. I was not pretty, I had teeth problems, and I was very skinny. I didn't fit the mold.

  

  Celine Dion
  • Myself
  • Skinny
  • Surpass

• There's really not a difference between an octopus and, like, a giant pile of snot.

  

  Mike Rowe
  • Differences
  • Giants
  • Octopus

• You see, to tall men I'm a midget, and to short men I'm a giant; to the skinny ones I'm a fat man, and to the fat ones I'm a thin man.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Giants
  • Fats
  • Skinny