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 But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supp...
NORTON JUSTER 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 Whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in ...
NORTON JUSTER 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 ...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 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 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 Silent companions of the lonely hour,
Friends, who can never alter or forsake,
Who for inconst...
CAROLINE NORTON ... 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 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 People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of.
NORTON JUSTER 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 If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.
NORTON JUSTER 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 Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?
NORTON JUSTER 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 ...mirages are things that aren't really there that you can see very clearly."

"How do yo...
NORTON JUSTER 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 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 A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers, There was a lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth ...
CAROLINE NORTON It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would...
NORTON JUSTER 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 I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and...
NORTON JUSTER 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 So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.
NORTON JUSTER 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 If it's a sunny day, I get this weird guilt if I'm not making the most of it, so I'll wa...
JAMES NORTON Just because you have baggage doesn't mean you have to lug it around.
RICHIE NORTON The one I fought the best was the last one at Yankee Stadium. After 15 rounds I was not tired and fe...
KEN NORTON The idea of the trail is to not only see some showy blossoms but to also see some nice areas of the ...
MAXWELL NORTON So if you want to see peach blossoms you have to know where to look.
MAXWELL NORTON Anytime a team wins a championship, we as coaches are ecstatic. We've been working for a few years t...
WAYNE NORTON We’re all scared.

Yes, all of us. I’m afraid every day. If I’m not afraid, I must n...
RICHIE NORTON Never say that you can't do something, or that something seems impossible, or that something can't b...
MIKE NORTON A little piece of everywhere I go becomes a big part of everything I do.
RICHIE NORTON Beethoven said that it's better to hit the wrong note confidently, than hit the right note unconfide...
MIKE NORTON The thing about community nursing is you pretty much become part of the (client's) family. There's a...
ROSEANN NORTON Don’t worry about getting credit, do the work anyway.
RICHIE NORTON Freedom on the inside comes when validation from the outside doesn’t matter.
RICHIE NORTON I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to fig...
GALE NORTON If you compare the positive possibility in China to what's happening in Spain, it completely oversha...
CHARLES NORTON Opportunities will come and go, but if you do nothing about them, so will you.
RICHIE NORTON The two hurricanes coming so close together really illustrate how much of our offshore production wa...
GALE NORTON While they pulled the keelboat up the river, each member (of the Corps) ate about nine pounds of mea...
DIANE NORTON Queen Victoria - this flabby, fat, flatulent looking scion and successor of the most ignoble line of...
JOHN NORTON I've only beaten Clifton once before, and to beat them like that was really nice.
KALEM NORTON It seems like Justin pitches better when the pressure is on and the bases are loaded. He put a lot o...
KALEM NORTON It's (East Fork's) first year, so I guess they were a little rusty.
KALEM NORTON This is a good tournament for us because I get to see what a lot of kids can do.
KALEM NORTON He's our senior starter, and if we had an ace, he'd be it.
KALEM NORTON We just didn't hit the ball. This was really the first good pitcher we've seen, and my hat is off to...
KALEM NORTON Our cook-off runs in conjunction with our Lewis & Clark Festival. When they entered South Dakota, th...
DIANE NORTON Casually elegant. Barefoot elegant. Not ultra fancy. That's what we are striving for here.
JULIE NORTON There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that rap music spurs violence.
JOHN NORTON How can you see something that isn't there?' yawned the Humbug, who wasn't fully awake yet. 'Sometim...
NORTON JUSTER It's been shown in Leavenworth several times,
JIM NORTON With St. Patrick's Day falling on a Friday night this year, we have great concerns that impaired dri...
TOM NORTON In the future, it will be a vibrant village center where people will live, work and play.
CHRIS NORTON We believe that being positioned in the SSL VPN visionary quadrant is a testament to the core capabi...
CHRIS NORTON Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to ...
EDWARD NORTON This is the best I've seen Wisconsin play in the tournament. They had their 'A' game in all phases.
BOB NORTON I was hired at Bergen Catholic High School in New Jersey. We started the hockey program literally on...
BOB NORTON It's a very easy way for parents to contribute to their local schools.
BOB NORTON Entrepreneurs don't have weekends or birthdays or holidays. Every day is my weekend, my birthday, my...
RICHIE NORTON