Norton Juster Quotes
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Freedom is not a license for chaos.
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You see. . . it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and go nowhere, which was just where we were going when you came along. Would you care to join us?
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Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.
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And now," he continued, speaking to Milo, "where were you on the night of July 27?" "What does that have to do with it?" asked Milo. "It's my birthday, that's what," said the policeman as he entered "Forgot my birthday" in his little book. "Boys always forget other people's birthdays.
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I don't know of any wrong road to Dictionopolis, so if this road goes to Dictionopolis at all it must be the right road, and if it doesn't it must be the right road to somewhere else, because there are no wrong roads to anywhere. Do you think it will rain?
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To a child, and to an adult, too, what you discover by yourself, or what you think you discover by yourself, is what stays.
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When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.
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You must never feel badly about making mistakes.
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Sometimes I find the best way of getting from one place to another is simply to erase everything and begin again.
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I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting
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It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would have been here much sooner if I hadn't made so many mistakes. I'm afraid it's all my fault.
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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 in a roomful of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're all alone in the whole house? Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful, if you listen carefully.
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You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.
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But I suppose there's a lot to see everywhere, if only you keep your eyes open.
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I think really good books can be read by anybody.
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...I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall.
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And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.
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Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.
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He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory.
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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.
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Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.
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Is everyone who lives in Ignorance like you?" asked Milo. "Much worse," he said longingly. "But I don't live here. I'm from a place very far away called Context.
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Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.
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A good book written for children can be read by adults