Norton Juster Quotes
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The way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from.
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Every sunrise gives you a new beginning and a new ending. Let this morning be a new beginning to a better relationship and a new ending to the bad memories. Its an opportunity to enjoy life, breathe freely, think and love. Be grateful for this beautiful day.
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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 even bothered.
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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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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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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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...I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall.
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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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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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I think really good books can be read by anybody.
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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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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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And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.
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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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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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A good book written for children can be read by adults
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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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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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Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.
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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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...it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is.
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A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.