Norton Juster Quotes

He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory.

Norton Juster

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• The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Space
  • Friend
  • Moon

• You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Up
  • Look

• The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Government
  • Evidence
  • Early

• Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's something to explain to a more mainstream audience, so you get these passionate writers who want to express their love for rap and hip-hop, which is cool.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Love
  • Passion

• As the era of the sword was ending, that of firearms began, in time to allow no lapse in man’s belligerent capacity.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Time

• Probable that I am now better than most people and as good as I ever shall be at this game, and can therefore get to know anyone I wish, provided I am not physically repellent. And perhaps this is why personal relationships no longer seem to me a serious branch of study.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• 'And the sad fact is that all nanotech life out of our control-out of anyone’s control. The essence of nanotech life’s evolution is autonomy, self-will, and goals which have nothing to do with those of the harboring life form.''Humanity, you mean,' said Lourdusamy.'Precisely.'

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Life
  • Control
  • Humanity

• They need to read the Scriptures; where it says in Matthew, chapter 4, verse 17, it says: 'Shut the fuck up.' That's the King James version, by the way.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Up
  • King

• It is true that the successful quest for wisdom might lead to the result that wisdom is not the one thing needful. But this result would owe its relevance to the fact that it is the result of the quest for wisdom: the very disavowal of reason must be reasonable disavowal.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • True
  • Wisdom

• The larger the deductible you choose, the less insurance you are buying. Insurers want to sell insurance.

  

  Andrew Tobias
  • Insurance

• Happiness may be difficult to obtain. The obstacles are not primarily financial.

  

  Alain de Botton
  • May
  • Financial
  • Obstacles

• I could play a gig on the moon and not be nervous about it.

  

  Luke Combs
  • Moon

• If you got problems like unemployment, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare and there's a guy that's always been there for you and for your family, then you say 'He's a nice guy. I don't know where he came from or how long he's been here, but Charlie Rangel's the man.' That's what I'm relying on.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • Long
  • Family
  • Guy

• I grew up in a community of theatre, and I always loved musicals. From a young age, the first present I ever wanted was a video camera. For me it was a great outlet to be creative.

  

  Christopher Egan
  • Up
  • Great
  • Age

• Your future is still before you. Your land is a vast storehouse of mineral and agricultural wealth awaiting further development for the benefit of mankind. It potentialities are magnificent.

  

  Charles E. Wilson
  • Future

• Life has its trade-offs. As you age, you lose things like teeth and the ability to play in the ball pit at fast-food restaurants, and you gain things like experience and employer-based health insurance.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Age

• But no, I'm not political. My obligation is to pull the lever and elect somebody who's going to make life a little better for everybody, especially those who don't have as much good fortune as others.

  

  Mark Wahlberg
  • Life
  • Good
  • Political

• I do a lot of traveling around the world.

  

  Chris Tucker
  • World

• He Tinky Winky is purple-the gay-pride color, and his antenna is shaped like a triangle-the gay pride symbol.

  

  Jerry Falwell
  • Gay
  • Color
  • Pride

• I think if you just hang in there long enough and keep doing what you know is your sweet spot, I think the world eventually catches up to you.

  

  Courtney B. Vance
  • Up
  • World
  • Long

• When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh! the doxy, over the dale, Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year; For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. The white sheet bleaching on the hedge, With heigh! the sweet birds, O, how they sing! Doth set my pugging tooth on edge; For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Sweet
  • Spring
  • Bird

• Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Food
  • Sweet
  • Bitter

• Things we conceal from others are insecurities that we are ashamed to admit, feelings and impulses we consider to be anti-social or inconsistent with our self-image, memories of events where we failed or performed badly against our own standards, and, most important, reactions to other people that we judge would be impolite or hurtful to reveal to their face.

  

  Edgar Schein
  • Memories
  • Judge
  • Insecurities

• He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Memories
  • Sweet
  • Tears