Norton Juster

STATUS QUOtes — 20210704

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Admire your own progress: It took everything to get here.” — Kamilla Tolnø

“The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.” — George Bernard Shaw

“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

“Many a good argument is ruined by some fool who knows what he is talking about.” — Marshall McLuhan

 

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I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20210118

Jeff

“To be amused by what you read —
that is the great spring of happy quotations.”
— C. E. Montague —

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“If it’s wrong when they do it, it’s wrong when we do it.” — Noam Chomsky

“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.” — Thomas Sowell

“For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.” — Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

“About one-third of the people in the street in New York City have a yoga mat. That alone would keep me from yoga. Carrying around a little rolled-up rug…. You know, New York used to be much more fashionable than that.” — Fran Lebowitz

 

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I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20200227

Jeff

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“To the conspiratorial mind, ‘stuff’ never just happens.[ed]” — Brené Brown

“And it’s much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.” — Norton Juster

“I’ve been cheered by thousands, booed by thousands, but nothing feels as bad as the booing inside your own head during those ten minutes before you fall asleep.” — Andre Agassi

“It’s amazing. The moment you show cash, everyone knows your language. — Aravind Adiga

 

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