Norton Quotes

God, do I hate my little fat tits. You ever pinch your little meat tits and wish you were dead? You ever just stand naked in the mirror. "You little fat-titted mediocre failure!" You ever do that for 3 hours on New Year's Eve. ~ Jim Norton

There's no one else to blame. No Bores or Old Ladies or Norton or Assassins waiting at the bridge. ~ Paul Zindel

Rumor ... often is fathered and mothered by false reports. ~ Andre Norton

It's not bad to get blocked, it's terrible to stay blocked ~ Ken Norton, Jr.

Everyone loves the idea of "disruption" in business, but no one likes it when it happens to them. ~ Richie Norton

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

Mentors change lives, but students change mentors' lives more. ~ Richie Norton

Unless your message is that you have no message, you need a message. ~ Richie Norton

The child is right," she announced firmly.
Arrietty's eyes grew big. "Oh, no-" she began. It shocked her to be right. Parents were right, not children. Children could say anything, Arrietty knew, and enjoy saying it-knowing always they were safe and wrong. ~ Mary Norton

I wonder where I am," said Milo in a very worried tone.
"You're ... in ... the ... Dol ... drums," wailed a voice that sounded far away. He looked around quickly to see who had spoken. No one was there, and it was as quiet and still as one
could imagine.
"Yes ... the ... Dol ... drums," yawned another voice, but still he saw no one.
"WHAT ARE THE DOLDRUMS?" he cried loudly, and tried very hard to see who would answer this time.
"The Doldrums, my young friend, are where nothing ever happens and nothing ever changes. ~ Norton Juster

If you try to make interesting films, you're going to be disappointed most of the time. I choose just not to look at it that way. ~ Edward Norton

I don't think you understand," said Milo timidly as the watchdog growled a warning. "We're looking for a place to spend the night."
"It's not yours to spend," the bird shrieked again, and followed it with the same horrible laugh.
"That doesn't make any sense, you see - " he started to explain.
"Dollars or cents, it's still not yours to spend," the bird replied haughtily.
"But I didn't mean - " insisted Milo.
"Of course you're mean," interrupted the bird, closing the eye that had been open and opening the one that had been closed. "Anyone who'd spend a night that doesn't belong to him is very mean."
"Well, I thought that by - " he tried again desperately.
"That's a different story," interjected the bird a bit more amiably. "If you want to buy, I'm sure I can arrange to sell, but with what you're doing you'll probably end up in a cell anyway."
"That doesn't seem right," said Milo helplessly, for, with the bird taking everything the wrong way, he hardly knew what he was saying.
"Agreed," said the bird, with a sharp click of his beak, "but neither is it left, although if I were you I would have left a long time ago. ~ Norton Juster

All these people I interview are worth ten times what I'm worth. ~ Graham Norton

Science fiction is a dialogue, a tennis match, in which the Idea is volleyed from one side of the net to the other. Ridiculous to say that someone 'stole' an idea: no, no, a thousand times no. The point is the volley, and how it's carried, and what statement is made by the answering 'statement.' In other words - if Burroughs initiates a time-gate and says it works randomly, and then Norton has time gates confounded with the Perilous Seat, the Siege Perilous of the Round Table, and locates it in a bar on a rainy night - do you see both the humor and the volley in the tennis match? ~ C.J. Cherryh

Oh, there at last, life's trials past, / We'll meet our loved ones more, / Whose feet have trod the path to God,
/ Not lost, but gone before. ~ Caroline Norton

The best help you can get is someone who genuinely cares and knows how to help you get what you don't even know you want. ~ Richie Norton

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

When haters start to rear their ugly head, just play around with them and throw them a bone so they can go away and chew on it. ~ Richie Norton

Just follow that line forever," said the Mathemagician, "and when you reach the end, turn left. There you'll find the land of Infinity, where the tallest, the shortest, the biggest, the smallest, and the most and least of everything are kept."
"I don't have that much time," said Milo anxiously. "isn't there a quicker way?"
"Well, you might try this flight of stairs," he suggested, opening another door and pointing up."It goes there, too. ~ Norton Juster

Jack of all trades or master of one? If you're a master of one, you'll soon be a master of none. Times are a changin. Be a jack of all trades. Or better, master of many! ~ Richie Norton

Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause of a room full of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're alone in the whole house? Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful if you listen carefully. ~ Norton Juster

I believe strongly that we need to get beyond rhetoric, beyond industry and environmentalists fighting with each other, and seriously solve problems. ~ Gale Norton

It just seems like right now we're in a place where people are being witch-hunted for expressing an opinion. Even if it's a lousy opinion or a shitty opinion, and comics I don't think can ever fall into the trap of any groups that want to censor what a person says or thinks or punish a person for expressing what they think. Anything you say about a social issue is going to offend half the country. I don't care how nicely you say it, I don't care how well you construct the joke, simply by stating the opinion, you are for something and anti something else. ~ Jim Norton

Any questions I had about whether a redneck from Oklahoma could become a Brown Classical Philosophy professor ended when I met Tim [Blake Nelson]. ~ Edward Norton

If you end your day feeling like you got nothing done, it's because you weren't working: you were busy, not productive. ~ Richie Norton

From now on, anyone raped at Penn State should just tell Joe Paterno's statue. It couldn't help you any less than the real Joe would have. ~ Jim Norton

But there's so much to learn," he said, with a thoughtful frown.
"Yes, that's true," admitted Rhyme; "but it's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters."
"That's just what I mean," explained Milo as Tock and the exhausted bug drifted quietly off to sleep. "Many of the things I'm supposed to know seem so useless that I can't see the purpose in learning them at all."
"You may not see it now," said the Princess of Pure Reason, looking knowingly at Milo's puzzled face, "but whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way. ~ Norton Juster

Every book you've ever read on LEADERSHIP will finally make sense (and become practical) if you change the word "leader" to INFLUENCER. ~ Richie Norton

You have to dig a well before you can draw water from it. ~ Richie Norton

We have met and hated, fought and died before - you and I. Kepta to Garin People of the Crater. Andre Norton. ~ Andre Norton

Hiding behind titles to create security is insecurity. ~ Richie Norton

Can you spell everything?" asked Milo admiringly.
"Just about," replied the bee with a hint of pride in his voice. "You see, years ago I was just an ordinary bee minding my own business, smelling flowers all day, and occasionally picking up part-time work in people's bonnets. Then one day I realized that I'd never amount to anything without an education and, being naturally adept at spelling, I decided that - ~ Norton Juster

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving. ~ Gale Norton

When people come together too young, they try to become one person. As you get older, you realize that you don't want to become one person because then you lose the person you are. ~ Edward Norton

The more you thank, the more things to be grateful for you will receive. The opposite is also true. ~ Richie Norton

Sometimes their oppression of emotion and the weird way it comes out is more interesting than painting it in bold primary colors. ~ Edward Norton

I hope you slip in a puddle of AIDS and crack your head open ~ Jim Norton

Practiced poorly, tourism can be extremely negative. ~ Edward Norton

Action is the bridge between thought and reality. ~ Richie Norton

Richard Nixon as a 12-year-old was given a portrait of Lincoln that he hung over his bed. Nixon also justified what would later be seen as abuses of power by comparing America in the Vietnam era to the country during the Civil War. ~ Richard Norton Smith

Few things, if anything, are more important than altruism. ~ Richie Norton

There is no weapon in the end as difficult to overcome as the tongue of an enemy. ~ Andre Norton

The higher your profile becomes, the more aware you are that people out there might hate you. ~ Graham Norton

Occasionally the state of the planet can knock me off my perky perch. ~ Graham Norton

All too often people pretend to be professional. "Professionalism" is sometimes a facade for fraud. Be pro, but be real. Honesty and transparency combined with character, competence and real results is the key to being a true pro. ~ Richie Norton

Don't allow life to pass you by because you are afraid of [looking] stupid. ~ Richie Norton

I think there is a serious corruption in the idea sold through advertising that you can attain spiritual peace through lifestyle and the notion of building your happiness from the outside-in by acquiring things ... which if you think about it, is the essence of advertising ~ Edward Norton

Have the STRENGTH to say "no" to the status quo.

Have the WILL to listen to the deepest desires of your heart.

Have the COURAGE to ACT on and live out your intent. ~ Richie Norton

Don't wait to be compelled to do great work. ~ Richie Norton

I think the mistake lots of people make when it comes to a psychopath is that they completely write off their actions as cruel, callous and completely calculated, but actually, the truth is that they have interests and reasons behind their actions. ~ James Norton

The enduring responsibility of the United States Air Force is to provide strategic deterrence for the Nation and fly, fight and win as an integral part of the Joint Team. Together with our brothers and sisters in arms, we underwrite the national strategy of defending the Homeland and assuring allies, while dissuading, deterring and defeating enemies. ~ Norton A. Schwartz

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

Being lost is not a matter of knowing where you are. It's a matter of knowing where you aren't. ~ Norton Juster

One of hardest for any historian or a biographer to do is to capture convincingly on paper something as ethereal as charisma. It's a relative term, and different generations define it differently. ~ Richard Norton Smith

It was raining in the quadrangle, and the quadrangular sky looked like a grimace of a robot or a god made in our own likeness. The oblique drops of rain slid down the blades of grass in the park, but it would have made no difference if they had slid up. Then the oblique (drops) turned round (drops), swallowed up by the earth underpinning the grass, and the grass and the earth seemed to talk, no, not talk, argue, their comprehensible words like crystallized spiderwebs or the briefest crystallized vomitings, a barely audible rustling, as if instead of drinking tea that afternoon, Norton had drunk a steaming cup of peyote. ~ Roberto Bolano

Specialists will continue to lose not because of automation, but because of the imprisonment of industrial isolation.

Leaders and innovators who stay relevant see the interconnectedness of a broad use of skillsets that specialists can't see and use creativity to solve problems in times of complexity. ~ Richie Norton

Most of the films that I've ever really responded to are ones that I feel were really involved in their times. ~ Edward Norton

Men without jobs do not form families. ~ Eleanor Holmes Norton

Screenplays aren't written to be read, they're written to be made into movies. ~ Edward Norton

Have you ever done something really bad?' said Aaron.
...
'Um...' I said...'You do know who you're talking to, right? I don't think I've ever done a thing that wasn't really bad.'
'No, I mean really bad. Something you can't forgive yourself for. You want to forgive yourself for it, and you need to forgive yourself for it...but you just can't. ~ Preston Norton

Express gratitude for the greatness of small things. ~ Richie Norton

What kind of a place is Expectations?" inquired Milo, unable to see the humor and feeling very doubtful of the little man's sanity.
"Good question, good question," he exclaimed. "Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. Of course, some people never go beyond Expectations, but my job is to hurry them along whether they like it or not. ~ Norton Juster

Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses. ~ Gale Norton

Confusion, when embraced, is the starting point for discovery, direction and decision. ~ Richie Norton

It's a dream to be in a company of actors. ~ Edward Norton

...What if we had that kind of passion with the List? This passion that was at the very root of our existence. and the injustice of it made our blood boil, and if we didn't complete the fuck out of this List, we would at least die trying. ~ Preston Norton

Don't just create art to make money. Make money so you can create more art. (Exchange any words you want for 'create art' and see if it fits). ~ Richie Norton

Breakdowns create breakthroughs.

Breakthroughs create more breakthroughs.

More breakthroughs create friction because idiots be jealous or don't get it or protect their little corner and act out of spite.

So you breakdown for another breakthrough.

If you're about to break, go for broke.

If you're not breaking, you're not really living. ~ Richie Norton

Keep your warm hearts, your gentleness, and your courage. These will do just as well as magic. ~ Mary Norton

Doing good and dealing with intentional idiots far out weighs sitting back and relaxing. ~ Richie Norton

The rest isn't history...the rest is making history. ~ Richie Norton

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

I'm not particularly precious about the theatrical experience any more. ~ Edward Norton

I don't get much out of doing a red carpet. ~ Edward Norton

You can do things in twin scenes now you couldn't before. You can implement actual moving cameras. ~ Edward Norton

The loss of religious faith among the most civilized portion of the race is a step from childishness toward maturity. ~ Charles Eliot Norton

Whatever you do, don't wait to start those dreams. ~ Richie Norton

I warned you; I warned you I was the Senses Taker," sneered the Senses Taker. "I help people find what they're not looking for, hear what they're not listening for, run after what they're not chasing, and smell what isn't even there. And, furthermore," he cackled, hopping around gleefully on his stubby legs, "I'll steal your sense of purpose, take your sense of duty, destroy your sense of proportion - and, but for one thing, you'd be helpless yet."
"What's that?" asked Milo fearfully.
"As long as you have the sound of laughter," he groaned unhappily, "I cannot take your sense of humor - and, with it, you've nothing to fear from me. ~ Norton Juster

Do I have more depth than I'm given credit for? No! ~ Graham Norton

Fall. Stand. Learn. Adapt. ~ Mike Norton

Do you want to be remembered for the money you made or the life you lived? ~ Richie Norton

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

For instance," said the boy again, "if Christmas trees were people and people were Christmas trees, we'd all be chopped down, put up in the living room, and covered in tinsel, while the trees opened our presents."
"What does that have to do with it?" asked Milo.
"Nothing at all," he answered, "but it's an interesting possibility, don't you think? ~ Norton Juster

The only time I took Ecstacy was years and years ago. It was absolutely amazing. ~ Graham Norton

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

Waiting to start is an insult to the world. ~ Richie Norton

Sometimes it is not the marriage that is boring, it's your life. ⁣ ~ Richie Norton

Either the law exists, or it does not. ~ Andre Norton

Do you ever see someone doing something cool and you say to yourself, "I could do that" ... And then you don't? Ask yourself, why not? Honestly, why not? You really may not have a reason to do it, but if you'd regret not doing it? That's a whole other story. ~ Richie Norton

I'm often dating people, but I don't say it because you sort of know it won't last long. ~ Graham Norton

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

To make money you have to use a four letter word: SELL. ~ Richie Norton

Procrastination is like going to a fancy restaurant and filling up on bread and not leaving enough room for dinner. ~ Richie Norton

1. Milo There was once a boy named Milo who didn't know what to do with himself - not just sometimes, but always. When he was in school he longed to be out, and when he was out he longed to be in. On the way he thought about coming home, and coming home he thought about going. Wherever he was he wished he were somewhere else, and when he got there he wondered why he'd bothered. Nothing really interested him - least of all the things that should have. "It seems to me that almost everything is a waste of time," he remarked one day as he walked dejectedly home from school. "I can't see the point in learning to solve useless problems, or subtracting turnips from turnips, or knowing where Ethiopia is or how to spell February." And, since no one bothered to explain otherwise, he regarded the process of seeking knowledge as the greatest waste of time of all. ~ Norton Juster

What you can do is often a matter of what you will do. ~ Norton Juster

You dream as an actor's director of letting moments breathe through two-shots. ~ Edward Norton

Freedom is the ability to choose how you spend your time. ⁣ ~ Richie Norton

Politics is not leadership. It never has been. It never will be. ~ Richie Norton

How to "change the world" in two words: S.T.A.R.T. N.O.W.

1. START - Serve. Thank. Ask. Receive. Trust.

2. NOW - No Opportunity Wasted ~ Richie Norton

Get a in clothes dryer with Magic Johnson and some razorblades. ~ Jim Norton