Top 100 Norton Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#4. Like many science fiction lovers of my generation, I discovered Andre Norton on the shelves at the junior high's library.
Sherwood Smith
#5. 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
#6. If volition is bound to social imperatives, as William James believed, and it's therefore easier to go to war than it is to quit smoking, one could say that Liz Norton was a woman who found it easier to quit smoking than to go to war.
Roberto Bolano
#7. I have children, and this notion - that there might be a single book that introduces children to literature - terrifies me. But you could do worse than Mary Norton's 'The Borrowers.' I loved it as a kid, and my kids love it, too.
Elizabeth McCracken
#8. I know that by the time I was in middle school, Andre Norton was definitely my favorite author.
Martha Wells
#9. Anyway, as the old barrelhouse song says, My God, how the money rolled in. Norton must have subscribed to the old Puritan notion that the best way to figure out which folks God favours is by checking their bank acounts.
Stephen King
#10. Some people say they have 20 years experience, when in reality, they have 1 year's experience repeated 20 times. (Stephen M R Covey to Richie Norton when Norton asked if he was too young to train older executives for Covey.)
Richie Norton
#11. One of his followers murmured agreement, but another quietly slipped away. Now there was Norton and four others. Maybe that wasn't so bad. Christ Himself could only find twelve.
Stephen King
#12. Jim Norton and Harland Williams always make me laugh.
Dane Cook
#13. Well ... you know, I love motorcycles. They're just beautiful, and there's a certain craftsmanship in older bikes, older Triumphs or BSAs or Norton. I'm just very attracted to it.
Ray Lamontagne
#14. So, how we doin'?"
"Same as usual: dead people, a mystery, more dead people."
"Who we lost?"
"The boy. His guardians. Maybe Elliot Norton."
"Shit, don't sound like we got anybody left. Anyone hires you better leave you your fee in their will.
John Connolly
#15. We, Norton I, do hereby decree that the offices of President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House of Representatives are, from and after this date, abolished.
Joshua A. Norton
#16. I should call myself four market Norton. I'm great in Boston and Cleveland. I do good in Phillie, New Jersey.
Jim Norton
#17. I can remember when I was a baby and my mother was there watching the show. I went and bought 100 episodes and watched them. I respect it so much that the sitcom itself and Ed Norton; I'm not playing Ed Norton but my version of it, cause I'm a black man.
Mike Epps
#18. I'd say my biggest influences are writers like Andre Norton and, particularly when it comes to the Radch, C.J. Cherryh.
Ann Leckie
#19. Even a guy like Jim Norton is clinging to his one empty tradition like anyone gives a care. My prayers for his death, as always, went unanswered.
Colin Quinn
#20. We have met and hated, fought and died before - you and I. Kepta to Garin People of the Crater. Andre Norton.
Andre Norton
#21. Like once we picked Jim Norton as the head of security, the writing flows pretty easily.
Ted Alexandro
#22. Edward Norton and I have known each other awhile. I just think he's the real deal, supremely talented and smart. He's got a great sense of humor.
Kevin Spacey
#23. If you'd told the young Graham Norton that I'd one day have this amount of money, I'd have assumed it would have come from a lottery win.
Graham Norton
#24. Hardships are the Lord's greatest blessings to the believer. Without them we would love the Lord only for what He does for us. Our troubles teach us to love Him for who He is." Sister Norton in "The Preacher's Bride
Jody Hedlund
#25. Ed Norton is probably one of the smartest people I've ever met.
Cary Fukunaga
#26. The very act of accepting her position at Mademoiselle was an act of open defiance against Dick Norton, his entire family, and the gendered expectations of midcentury America.
Elizabeth Winder
#27. Mistuh Norton, he daid," the man in black intoned, giving the words a sardonic little twist.
Stephen King
#28. With Edward Norton you'd never say, "This is the one we're going with whether you like it or not." It has to be agreed upon.
Edward Norton
#29. I read way, way more Andre Norton than could possibly have been healthy. It was a short hop from her to the rest of the library's science fictional and fantastic holdings.
Ann Leckie
#30. This is Doctor Norton. Who's calling?"
"Step N'Wolfe- the owner of the Emerald Cascade Ranch on Green Valley Road. I have a horse in labor and the baby's already coming out of the horse's ass."
"You should of called sooner.
Giorge Leedy
#31. Graham Norton makes me laugh. I love him. I'm not kidding. I watch him on BBC America every week. He's so fast.
Sarah Jessica Parker
#32. Yet there was also something slightly spooky about them. Norton could never understand how men with advanced scientific and technical training could possibly believe some of the things he had heard Cosmo Christers state as incontrovertible fact.
Arthur C. Clarke
#33. I had switched from the arrogant absurdity of Norton and Emerson to that of Jack and the Brotherhood, and it all came out the same - except I now recognized my invisibility. So I'd accept it, I'd explore it, rine and heart. I'd
Ralph Ellison
#34. Look at someone like Edward Norton. A truly phenomenal actor. He's definitely went to school and trained.
Jason Statham
#35. I will say that Edward Norton, who plays the scout master, would be a first-rate Eagle Scout. He's got all those techniques. If your plane crashes into the jungle somewhere, he would be the guy you would want to have with you.
Wes Anderson
#36. Norton was supremely gifted as an awakener, and no thoughtful mind can recall without a thrill the notes of the first voice which has called it out of its morning dream.
Edith Wharton
#37. In the old days, when Muhammad Ali was fighting Ken Norton, Joe Frazier and George Foreman, there was a lot of excitement in the heavyweight division, I have to admit it.
Wladimir Klitschko
#38. Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously.
Kerry Thornley
#39. I have always loved Ed Norton and Ryan Gosling. Also Julianne Moore and Cate Blanchett.
Taylor Dane
#40. I know two L.A.s. Half my life was around the house my folks had for 46 years at 3rd and Norton. The other half was in Boyle Heights on the Eastside, working with gang members.
Greg Boyle
#41. I would have to say honestly I was very pleased to be in a film whether it was good or bad with De Niro, Norton and Brando even if I don't have any scenes with them, I thought it was pretty good company to keep.
Angela Bassett
#42. I named all my sons George Edward Foreman. And I tell people, 'If you're going to get hit as many times as I've been hit by Mohammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Evander Holyfield - you're not going to remember many names.'
George Foreman
#43. There's no one else to blame. No Bores or Old Ladies or Norton or Assassins waiting at the bridge.
Paul Zindel
#44. I've done Graham Norton's show three times now. He tackles taboos and subject matter that wouldn't make it past the censors in the States.
Kyle MacLachlan
#45. When I'm in New York, I bike everywhere. I have a couple of bikes stored over at Ed Norton's. It's the only way to go. But in Hawaii, I drive. I have a little Volkswagen Bug, from the 'Drive it? Hug it?' phase. I run it on biodiesel.
Woody Harrelson
#46. Hey, disease boy!" Norton shouted. "We know what you got. It's called
Kate DiCamillo
#47. Ralph Fiennes and Edward Norton are among my favorite actors.
Vance Joy
#48. If (environmentalists) want to continue to beat those drums to solicit money from concerned soccer moms, they can do that. The reality on the ground is things are better as a result of Gale Norton's tenure.
Christopher West
#49. To me, such functions are like supermarket openings.
Norton Simon
#50. 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
#51. All these people I interview are worth ten times what I'm worth.
Graham Norton
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. Homosexuality is not a political choice; it is dictated by the imperatives of desire.
Rictor Norton
#57. I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.
Edward Norton
#58. You don't want money to make you a social freak where you can only hang out with rich people.
Graham Norton
#59. You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.
Norton Juster
#60. 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
#61. For any actor, it's a great privilege to play a character that is very distant from yourself.
James Norton
#62. 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
#63. would flower; and where birds came - and pecked
Mary Norton
#64. Fear is the freaky troll under the bridge that leads to achievement.
Richie Norton
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. Homophobia is a construct while homosexuality is innate.
Rictor Norton
#68. 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
#69. Oh, don't worry about that," said the Mathemagician as he scooped up the pieces. "We use the broken ones for fractions.
Norton Juster
#70. 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
#71. There's a trench coat and a tragedy in your future.
Jim Norton
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. I wanted to do a degree in something I was interested in before going into acting.
James Norton
#76. It's difficult to beat making your living thinking and writing about subjects that matter to you.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
#77. Mario you are a great chef but you look like a homeless James Gandolfini.
Jim Norton
#78. People are dumb and they think that laughing equals cosigning a belief in the ideology, which it doesn't.
Jim Norton
#79. If it was possible for me to adopt, I probably would, but no one's going to let me adopt.
Graham Norton
#80. It is the man on the ground with his rifle who ultimately wins the war.
Bruce H. Norton
#81. 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
#82. Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?
Norton Juster
#83. I am listening for the voices Which I heard in days of old.
Caroline Norton
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. Sometimes I find the best way of getting from one place to another is simply to erase everything and begin again.
Norton Juster
#87. Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.
Norton Juster
#88. An awful lot of female celebrities are very beautiful whereas a lot of male celebrities are not so hot.
Graham Norton
#89. There's room at the top because so few are willing to pay the extra price to get there.
Richie Norton
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. Opportunities will come and go, but if you do nothing about them, so will you.
Richie Norton
#95. 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
#97. But just because you can never reach it, doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for.
Norton Juster
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. And, most of all, of how much could be accomplished with just a little thought.
Norton Juster
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