Top 100 Norton Quotes
#1. To me, such functions are like supermarket openings.
Norton Simon
#2. I had a huge advantage with Edward Norton because he's directed a movie before, so one thing he appreciates is how hard my job is, he's very sensitive to that. We actually ended up finishing "Leaves of Grass" a day early.
Edward Norton
#3. Ali had a break that was an inch and a half long, and you keep getting hit as hard and as much as I hit Ali, the pain would take over and you would pass out.
Ken Norton
#4. All these people I interview are worth ten times what I'm worth.
Graham Norton
#5. Dating back to Teddy Roosevelt, hunters have been the pillar of conservation in America, doing more than anyone to conserve wildlife and its habitat.
Gale Norton
#6. And while all of your friends are grieving at your wake, I hope the sprinkler system turns on and sprays them with AIDS, hepatitis C and liquified genital warts. And while they're all running out and crying, I hope one of them slips and accidentally molests a child.
Jim Norton
#7. If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
#8. Homosexuality is not a political choice; it is dictated by the imperatives of desire.
Rictor Norton
#10. I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.
Edward Norton
#11. You don't want money to make you a social freak where you can only hang out with rich people.
Graham Norton
#12. You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.
Norton Juster
#13. I think we really feel like Crowdrise could be something that, 20 years from now, people take for granted because that's just how you do it, like if you're going to raise money for something, that's how you do it.
Edward Norton
#14. For any actor, it's a great privilege to play a character that is very distant from yourself.
James Norton
#15. Morini read the letter three times. With a heavy heart, he thought how wrong Norton was when she said her love and her ex-husband and everything they'd been through were behind her. Nothing is ever behind us.
Roberto Bolano
#16. People think because I went to Yale that that implies privilege, and it is a privilege in the sense that it's an incredible opportunity.
Edward Norton
#17. would flower; and where birds came - and pecked
Mary Norton
#18. Fear is the freaky troll under the bridge that leads to achievement.
Richie Norton
#19. Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.
Gale Norton
#20. I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.
Gale Norton
#22. Homophobia is a construct while homosexuality is innate.
Rictor Norton
#23. If you want to trust yourself, make decisions that are
grounded in your authentic principles. Don't lie. Don't
cheat. Don't push others down to obtain success.
Richie Norton
#24. Oh, don't worry about that," said the Mathemagician as he scooped up the pieces. "We use the broken ones for fractions.
Norton Juster
#25. We further decree that the Senate of the United States elect a prominent Democrat as their presiding officer, to act as President until the next election, and to reconstruct the Cabinet according to our wishes hereafter to be declared.
Joshua A. Norton
#26. There's a trench coat and a tragedy in your future.
Jim Norton
#28. It's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.
Norton Juster
#29. There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.
Edward Norton
#30. I wanted to do a degree in something I was interested in before going into acting.
James Norton
#31. It's difficult to beat making your living thinking and writing about subjects that matter to you.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
#32. Mario you are a great chef but you look like a homeless James Gandolfini.
Jim Norton
#33. People are dumb and they think that laughing equals cosigning a belief in the ideology, which it doesn't.
Jim Norton
#34. If it was possible for me to adopt, I probably would, but no one's going to let me adopt.
Graham Norton
#35. It is the man on the ground with his rifle who ultimately wins the war.
Bruce H. Norton
#36. I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass.
Edward Norton
#37. Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?
Norton Juster
#38. I am listening for the voices Which I heard in days of old.
Caroline Norton
#39. I love, when I'm on holiday in cities, going into church and feeling that reverence and that kind of automatic respect: the sort of magic which exists in those kind of religious temples.
James Norton
#40. You weren't thinking and you weren't paying attention either. People who don't pay attention often get stuck in the Doldrums.
Norton Juster
#41. Sometimes I find the best way of getting from one place to another is simply to erase everything and begin again.
Norton Juster
#42. Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.
Norton Juster
#43. An awful lot of female celebrities are very beautiful whereas a lot of male celebrities are not so hot.
Graham Norton
#44. There's room at the top because so few are willing to pay the extra price to get there.
Richie Norton
#45. And now," he continued, speaking to Milo, "where were you on the night of July 27?"
"What does that have to do with it?" asked Milo.
"It's my birthday, that's what," said the policeman as he entered "Forgot my birthday" in his little book. "Boys always forget other people's birthdays.
Norton Juster
#46. 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
#47. Wilderness gave us knowledge. Wilderness made us human. We came from here. Perhaps that is why so many of us feel a strong bond to this land called Serengeti; it is the land of our youth.
Boyd Norton
#48. Opportunities will come and go, but if you do nothing about them, so will you.
Richie Norton
#49. Like many science fiction lovers of my generation, I discovered Andre Norton on the shelves at the junior high's library.
Sherwood Smith
#51. What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present. Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened. - T. S. Eliot, "Burnt Norton
Blake Crouch
#52. It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean.
Norton Juster
#54. But just because you can never reach it, doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for.
Norton Juster
#55. And, most important of all," added the Mathemagician, "here is your own magic staff. Use it well and there is nothing it cannot do for you."
He placed in Milo's breast pocket a small gleaming pencil which, except for the size, was much like his own.
Norton Juster
#56. Apologies; our cultural obsession with them isn't about actually being offended, or simply needing to hear, "I'm sorry." It's not really about right or wrong. It's about wanting to throw a rock in the dark and hear something break.
Jim Norton
#57. And, most of all, of how much could be accomplished with just a little thought.
Norton Juster
#58. Is everyone who lives in Ignorance like you?" asked Milo.
"Much worse," he said longingly. "But I don't live here. I'm from a place very far away called Context.
Norton Juster
#59. What are you will to sacrifice for success? Whatever it is, don't sacrifice your values, your morals, your principles. Not worth it.
Richie Norton
#60. We have been friends together
In sunshine and in shade.
Caroline Norton
#61. The competition is out to get you. Are you a moving target or a sitting duck? Innovate or die.
Richie Norton
#62. Dear Influencers: Trolls will lurk under the bridges you build to gobble you up. They are hangry for attention. Build bridges anyways.
Richie Norton
#63. People are too worried a lot of times what other people in the audience are going to think about them, so they like to feign offense so other people don't think that they're inappropriate for laughing at something.
Jim Norton
#66. I don't pull out because ... it's not my problem.
Jim Norton
#67. I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.
Norton Juster
#68. It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing.
Edward Norton
#69. The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.
Norton Juster
#70. Well, certainly I think American television is - that's proper TV.
Graham Norton
#71. As we say in the sewer, time and tide wait for no man.
Edward Norton
#72. Combat is fast, unfair, cruel, and dirty. It is meant to be that way so that the terrible experience is branded into the memory of those who are fortunate enough to survive. It is up to those survivors to ensure that the experience is recorded and passed along to those who just might want to try it.
Bruce H. Norton
#73. Most of what I know about environmental conservation I learned from my father, who has been a leader within the movement for over 30 years.
Edward Norton
#74. While There may be power in forgiveness, there is even more power in lobbing a Molotov cocktail through someone's dining room window.
Jim Norton
#75. Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man is powerless to control.
Mike Norton
#76. Look, you've got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of supporting the causes that they care about or changing the world. And these people are not going to do it the way our parents do it.
Edward Norton
#77. Let me try once more," Milo said in an effort to explain. "In other words
"
"You mean you have other words?" cried the bird happily. "Well, by all means, use them. You're certainly not doing very well with the ones you have now.
Norton Juster
#78. Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.
Norton Juster
#79. I studied French forever, and when do I ever speak French? I clearly should have studied Spanish. I wish I had stuck with music, because that would still be great. I really wish I had learned to surf earlier in my life.
Edward Norton
#80. Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?
Gale Norton
#81. If time were to take on human form, would she be your taskmaster or freedom fighter?
Richie Norton
#82. Every day you're not doing that thing you want to do (your dream), you're spending mental currency, your dream currency (time) on the wrong thing.
Richie Norton
#83. You look like a diabetic strip club owner.
Jim Norton
#84. Another year older, but am I wiser? Wisdom comes from learning and changing for the better. Sometimes we just go through life living the same day over and over and never gaining true wisdom. Let that never be me.
Richie Norton
#85. Most of the films that I've ever really responded to are ones that I feel were really involved in their times.
Edward Norton
#86. When I talk to youngsters today, especially those involved in athletics, I tell them to get their education first.
Ken Norton
#87. The bigger the mess, the greater the progress.
Richie Norton
#88. I thought Rounders was a comic movie in its way. First time I directed a movie, I wanted to do a comedy. I don't like things that are superficially one thing or another, mainly. My favorite comedies are really smart, too, and have a lot of levels to them as well.
Edward Norton
#89. Anybody who is running a marathon or doing a walkathon, doing a fundraiser for their school, their company, by far it's guaranteed the easiest and most fun way to quickly set up a fundraising campaign and send it around to your friends and family.
Edward Norton
#91. I was 14 years old in August of 1968 and had earned the money and had managed to get tickets as a guest of the Massachusetts delegation to the Republican convention in Miami and where I was on the floor in the Rockefeller demonstrations.
Richard Norton Smith
#92. Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.
Edward Norton
#93. We achieve originality of style not by avoiding the influences of others but by blending them into a combination that has not been heard before.
Scott Norton
#94. Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.
Andre Norton
#95. Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. I imagine by now it's quite rusty.
Norton Juster
#96. These are the people who are going to see the pictures in my museum.
Norton Simon
#97. Do you think it will rain?
Milo: But I thought you were the Weather Man?
No, I'm the Whether man, for it is more important to know whether there will be weather, whether than what the weather will be.
Norton Juster
#98. I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.
Edward Norton
#99. We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don't care if they make sense or nonsense.
Norton Juster
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