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

• This is only one step in a much larger project. I discovered (no, not me: my team) the function of sugar nucleotides in cell metabolism. I want others to understood this, but it is not easy to explain: this is not a very noteworthy deed, and we hardly know even a little.

  

  Luis Federico Leloir
  • Science
  • Team
  • Easy

• It was not love at all, really, but rather a yearning for the honor and respect of the other men that held them. Pride, then... Indeed, all their connection with each other at this moment was tied up with the respect they felt they were earning by their actions.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Up
  • Men
  • Respect

• And I’d say to myself as I looked so lazily down at the sea: “There’s nobody else in the world, and the world was made for me.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • World
  • Sea
  • Made

• To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.

  

  W. S. Gilbert
  • Life
  • Long
  • Black

• In its more listless moments, 'Pharaoh's Army' seems a ramshackle collection of memories not overly concerned with telling a larger story.

  

  Jeff Giles
  • Moments
  • Memories
  • Army

• 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