But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supp...
NORTON JUSTER Whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in ...
NORTON JUSTER ...it's very much like your trying to reach infinity. You know that it's there, you just don't know ...
NORTON JUSTER Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a stor...
NORTON JUSTER You must never feel badly about making mistakes, explained Reason quietly, as long as you take the t...
NORTON JUSTER A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious ...
NORTON JUSTER But it's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and...
NORTON JUSTER ... for one of the nicest things about mathematics, or anything else you might care to learn, is tha...
NORTON JUSTER Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or...
NORTON JUSTER The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times.
NORTON JUSTER Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. Of course, so...
NORTON JUSTER And remember, also, added the Princess of Sweet Rhyme, that many places you would like to see are ju...
NORTON JUSTER People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of.
NORTON JUSTER If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.
NORTON JUSTER Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?
NORTON JUSTER ...mirages are things that aren't really there that you can see very clearly."

"How do yo...
NORTON JUSTER Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the tim...
NORTON JUSTER It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would...
NORTON JUSTER I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and...
NORTON JUSTER So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.
NORTON JUSTER How can you see something that isn't there?' yawned the Humbug, who wasn't fully awake yet. 'Sometim...
NORTON JUSTER You may not see it now," said the Princess of Pure Reason, looking knowingly at Milo's puzzled face,...
NORTON JUSTER As the cheering continued, Rhyme leaned forward and touched Milo gently on the shoulder.
"The...
NORTON JUSTER But as you know, the most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in b...
NORTON JUSTER But why do only unimportant things?" asked Milo, who suddenly remembered how much time he spent each...
NORTON JUSTER You see," he continued, beginning to feel better, "once there was no time at all, and people found i...
NORTON JUSTER You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from th...
NORTON JUSTER But that can never be," said Milo, jumping to his feet.
"Don't be too sure," said the child pat...
NORTON JUSTER Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.
NORTON JUSTER The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they ...
NORTON JUSTER …it’s not just learning that’s important. It’s learning what to do with what you learn and l...
NORTON JUSTER ...I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall.
NORTON JUSTER And remember, also," added the Princess of Sweet Rhyme, "that many places you would like to see are ...
NORTON JUSTER Would it be possible for me to see something from up there?" asked Milo politely.

"You co...
NORTON JUSTER Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things.
-...
NORTON JUSTER Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.
NORTON JUSTER Let me try once more," Milo said in an effort to explain. "In other words--"
"You mean you have...
NORTON JUSTER For instance," said the boy again, "if Christmas trees were people and people were Christmas trees, ...
NORTON JUSTER ... what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of ...
NORTON JUSTER There are no wrong roads to anywhere.
NORTON JUSTER Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.
NORTON JUSTER But just because you can never reach it, doesn’t mean that it’s not worth looking for.
NORTON JUSTER The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between.
NORTON JUSTER It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.
NORTON JUSTER if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see i...
NORTON JUSTER Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.
NORTON JUSTER Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, p...
NORTON JUSTER The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.
NORTON JUSTER Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.
NORTON JUSTER You see. . . it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and...
NORTON JUSTER You must excuse my gruff conduct,” the watchdog said, after they’d been driving for some time, �...
NORTON JUSTER Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.
NORTON JUSTER (PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH) It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.
NORTON JUSTER (PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH) So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.
NORTON JUSTER (PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH) The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort
NORTON JUSTER (PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH) Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things. - Humb...
NORTON JUSTER (PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH" Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.
NORTON JUSTER "THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH" All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory ...
EDWARD NORTON The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.
EDWARD NORTON Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man is powerless to control.
MIKE NORTON The true measure of a man is not what he dreams, but what he aspires to be; a dream is nothing witho...
MIKE NORTON I think the mistake lots of people make when it comes to a psychopath is that they completely write ...
JAMES NORTON Where I get bored is when I show up for a shoot and they want me to wear a feather boa. Too obvious ...
GRAHAM NORTON We have been friends together,
In sunshine and in shade;
Since first beneath the chestnut-tree...
CAROLINE NORTON Those we hold most dear never truly leave us ... they live on in the kindnesses they showed, the com...
ISABEL NORTON Mission matching: an ask that creates synergistic congruence (aka win-win) between missions.
RICHIE NORTON As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust ther...
ANDRE NORTON In my friend, I find a second self.
ISABEL NORTON Never mix negative thinking with negative people. Multiplying negatives, in this instance, won't mak...
RICHIE NORTON Live who you are or die someone else.
RICHIE NORTON Everyone is pretty good at learning. Very few are good at doing.
RICHIE NORTON Selling is a sacred trust between buyer and seller.
RICHIE NORTON S.T.O.P. = Start To Open Possibilities
RICHIE NORTON Perfectionism is a disease. Procrastination is a disease. ACTION is the cure.
RICHIE NORTON In the end, every startup is different. But in the beginning every startup is the same.
RICHIE NORTON QUIT = Quickly Uphold Important Things
RICHIE NORTON Perfection is born of imperfection.
RICHIE NORTON Sell the results, not the nuts and bolts.
RICHIE NORTON To escape fear, you have to go through it, not around.
RICHIE NORTON Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in onese...
MIKE NORTON Fall. Stand. Learn. Adapt.
MIKE NORTON Few suffer more than those who refuse to forgive themselves.
MIKE NORTON Silent companions of the lonely hour,
Friends, who can never alter or forsake,
Who for inconst...
CAROLINE NORTON In the cold change which time hath wrought on love
(The snowy winter of his summer prime),
Sho...
CAROLINE NORTON My beautiful, my beautiful! That standest meekly by, with thy proudly-arched and glossy neck, and da...
CAROLINE NORTON Hiding behind titles to create security is insecurity.
RICHIE NORTON Integrity is the bond of trust.
RICHIE NORTON For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don't need to proje...
MIKE NORTON Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nomi...
EDWARD NORTON I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused wit...
EDWARD NORTON The developers, if they decide to move a tortoise, have to pay the long-term costs for enhancing the...
GALE NORTON Personal and private and public and professional lives are blended.

Separating them is wh...
RICHIE NORTON All too often people pretend to be professional. "Professionalism" is sometimes a facade for fraud. ...
RICHIE NORTON Look, you've got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relatio...
EDWARD NORTON It's not about how smart you are--it's about capturing minds.
RICHIE NORTON Stupid is the New Smart.
RICHIE NORTON Ideas become reality. once you hit that reality, you get a new idea. it's a virtuous upward spiral. ...
RICHIE NORTON When the going gets tough, people bail. When the going gets easy, people get lazy. Honest, smart, ha...
RICHIE NORTON Rhetorical question: Did you get to where you are by accepting the status quo?
I didn't.
RICHIE NORTON Freedom rings when you realize you can become what you never thought you could become.
RICHIE NORTON Home is where your people are.
RICHIE NORTON Ignorance paired with arrogance (naïveté) is logical, but arrogance paired with awareness (ego) is...
RICHIE NORTON Victory belong to the most persevering.
ANDRE NORTON Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.
ANDRE NORTON There's no night without stars.
ANDRE NORTON Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly
ANDRE NORTON Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed beha...
ANDRE NORTON Victory belongs to the most persevering.
ANDRE NORTON Either the law exists, or it does not.
ANDRE NORTON Basically, I'm a really bad interviewer. I love meeting celebrities, but then I get a bit bored....
GRAHAM NORTON Doing good and dealing with intentional idiots far out weighs sitting back and relaxing.
RICHIE NORTON It's an honor to be a part of arguably the best and biggest high school football event ever put toge...
BARRY NORTON I wouldn't mind watching a couple and flying out on Saturday evening. We just filled the last game o...
BARRY NORTON We want to make sure the kids know the new things we're adding by the time practice gets here in the...
BARRY NORTON It's just been a case of making some adjustments here and there and playing harder in the second hal...
BARRY NORTON We don't even like to say who the starters are at safety. We've played a lot of kids, and not just i...
BARRY NORTON I thought the workout went well. There was a lot of enthusiasm, and the kids were having fun, althou...
BARRY NORTON Obviously our No. 2 goal every year is to find depth. We'd like to come out of the spring with a sol...
BARRY NORTON They had called across the state to different head football coaches, along with the media and colleg...
BARRY NORTON And I think we're deserving of being there. I think our program is one of the top ones in Texas. Whe...
BARRY NORTON Bad boss? Fire him/her. When you're interviewing for a job, You're job is to interview them. You are...
RICHIE NORTON Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.
EDWARD NORTON I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution c...
GALE NORTON I don't think I've got bad taste. I've got no taste.
GRAHAM NORTON I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped f...
ANDRE NORTON War can condition a person to be resilient, tolerant, dependable, strong, and capable of so much mor...
MIKE NORTON Trust isn't just the greatest currency, it's the only currency. Once trust is gone in any form of cu...
RICHIE NORTON The bittersweet about truth is that nothing could be more hurtful, yet nothing could be more helpful...
MIKE NORTON Never hold resentments for the person who tells you what you need to hear; count them among your tru...
MIKE NORTON These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the fi...
GALE NORTON All my day is spent dealing with other people. When I come home I like it to be empty. The presence ...
GRAHAM NORTON Well, certainly I think American television is - that's proper TV.
GRAHAM NORTON I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, a...
EDWARD NORTON I've really had some great support through all this from my family and friends,
BRYAN NORTON Mike is everybody's friend. He always seems to have a smile on his face and he always seems to be th...
BRYAN NORTON Wasn't that the weirdest thing you've ever seen in your life?
BRYAN NORTON I feel pretty good right now, ... But it's (injury) still something I think about from time to time,...
BRYAN NORTON Nathan was playing some great golf that day, but there were still a lot of holes to play. You're in ...
BRYAN NORTON It was a tough, long winter, ... I was on crutches for eight weeks and really got into rehabilitatio...
BRYAN NORTON Outcasts, callused from being in exile for too long, learn to thrive on being the hated; the attenti...
MIKE NORTON We wanted to take the 'alleged' off our title.
BRAD NORTON We want to make sure this doesn't happen again.
BRAD NORTON It's good for the county because it was probably headed to the Supreme Court anyway. This way we ski...
BRAD NORTON This does not stop anybody from building. It does not deal in any way, shape or form with the height...
BRAD NORTON You never make all things for all people and can't always pander to the broadest denominator. I ...
EDWARD NORTON Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.
EDWARD NORTON We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
CAROLINE NORTON Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a new-born child?
CAROLINE NORTON All our calm is in that balm - Not lost but gone before.
CAROLINE NORTON Some people think they're depressed and they go to the doctor and want pills. And you just think...
GRAHAM NORTON Intentional living is the art of making our own choices before others' choices make us.
RICHIE NORTON Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition.
ED NORTON A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers, There was a lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth ...
CAROLINE NORTON feel free to call... as questions arise.
GALE NORTON communication, consultation, and cooperation, in the name of conservation.
GALE NORTON without leaving a footprint.
GALE NORTON I share your commitment to protect the environment of Florida's coastline as well as the entire east...
GALE NORTON a very reasonable compromise between those who support further development ... to meet our growing e...
GALE NORTON This new partnership is an example of how the public sector and private industry can work together t...
GALE NORTON I get heartbroken flying into L.A. It's just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine wh...
EDWARD NORTON We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in dema...
GALE NORTON I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.
EDWARD NORTON It takes a lot of courage, when everyone is asking you what you want to do, if you say that you want...
JAMES NORTON Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regul...
GALE NORTON I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films.
EDWARD NORTON They have a nice home improvement niche. They believe they can co-exist with the giants and they're ...
CHRIS NORTON I love good stories; you have to have a good plot - characters which intertwine with a good plot.
JAMES NORTON Forty freaked me out. I didn't see it coming. My life was in a state of chaos - I was moving job...
GRAHAM NORTON When you talk about an icon and a legend, an extraordinary individual, as well as a people's person,...
JIM NORTON Anybody who is running a marathon or doing a walkathon, doing a fundraiser for their school, their c...
EDWARD NORTON We decided not to make as much money per bar and just make more (bars).
CHRIS NORTON Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds ...
GALE NORTON Economic-development incentives are the key to attracting quality businesses to your community.
CHRIS NORTON We did a 1995 study of the U.S. 1 corridor. Nobody pulled building permits and the area bottomed out...
CHRIS NORTON It's a phenomenon that's tied to growth . . . Palm Bay, with 97,000 people, is the most populated ci...
CHRIS NORTON If the city were to complete the current list of public improvements one at a time, it would take 10...
CHRIS NORTON There were quite a few stuck in washes. We were wading through water that was 3 to 3 1/2 feet deep.
CHRIS NORTON Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways.
EDWARD NORTON You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutiqu...
EDWARD NORTON Because society places a value on masculinity, gay men aspire to it. If you go to a gay club and the...
GRAHAM NORTON I do get pleasure from very inconsequential things, like shopping for clothes.
GRAHAM NORTON Every coach is biased about his own kid, but I wouldn't trade Kevin for anybody. He accepted not mak...
CLAY NORTON All my interesting stories are from before I was on television. Nothing interesting has happened to ...
GRAHAM NORTON It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.
EDWARD NORTON It seems like a pretty steep price. The range I was hearing was closer to $1.5 to $2 billion.
CHARLES NORTON Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is ...
GALE NORTON We've got four guys who have played a lot of snaps inside for us. We really feel good about our numb...
BARRY NORTON We've started slow in every game, and I don't know why. I think the kids are prepared for every game...
BARRY NORTON We'll probably go through 15 or 16 workouts, then see where we are. If we have to, we'll work on Fri...
BARRY NORTON We knew Jimmie had the ability and speed. What he needed was playing time, and the injury has forced...
BARRY NORTON My mobile rang around lunchtime one day, and it was George Michael. He wanted to come in on Friday. ...
GRAHAM NORTON I loved Lucille Ball growing up.
GRAHAM NORTON Optimism doesn't make you more persistent. Persistence makes you more optimistic.
RICHIE NORTON Never trust a person that tries to sell you by how righteous they are. I'm telling your right now, i...
RICHIE NORTON Selfishness at the expense of others is bad. Self-care for the betterment of others is good.
RICHIE NORTON Hopefully, by August they'll be peaches.
MAXWELL NORTON My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.
GALE NORTON The rewards are far better IN the arena than in the stands.
RICHIE NORTON Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is wh...
MIKE NORTON The data suggests that ongoing, intense earthquake activity has weakened the rock dome, increasing t...
GALE NORTON