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Norton Juster Quotes

Norton Juster quote: "If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself."

If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.

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Tonight I walked around the pond scaring frogs; a couple of them jumped off, going, in effect, eek, and most grunted, and the pond was still. But one big frog, bright green like a poster-paint frog, didn't jump, so I waved my arm and stamped to scare it, and it jumped suddenly, and I jumped, and then everything in the pond jumped, and I laughed and laughed. Annie Dillard
Georges Simenon quote: "Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness."
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. Georges Simenon
The athletes are still out competing the same as a Division I team, and I think we've done a good job of creating an atmosphere where they're responsible for their actions and their play. Cat Osterman
Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon. Emile Durkheim
If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing the search for proof of evolution in space, the program would have saved $100 billion in tax money and achieved greater results. Walter Lang
The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold. Albert Pike
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals. Ramsey Clark
I think to close half of Magic Kingdom for the purpose of a White House invitation town hall meeting on a phony main street on behalf of a phony president just strikes me as weird. Newt Gingrich
I've been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn't want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Joyce Meyer
Dennis Rodman quote: "I'll be the judge of my own manliness."
I'll be the judge of my own manliness. Dennis Rodman
I'd learned enough about circuitry in high school electronics to know how to drive a TV and get it to draw - shapes of characters and things. Steve Wozniak
Henry David Thoreau quote: "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. Henry David Thoreau
John Donne quote: "ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee"
ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee John Donne
Wake up America! The insurance companies took over health care! Wake up America! The pharmaceutical companies took over drug pricing! Wake up America! The speculators took over Wall Street! Wake up America! They want your Social Security! Wake up America! Multinational corporations took over our trade policies! Wake up America! We went into Iraq for oil! WAKE UP AMERICA! Dennis Kucinich
The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power--and that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness of their condition. But that's not all the law is. The law is also memory; the law also records a long-running conversation, a nation arguing with its conscience. Barack Obama