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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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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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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And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.
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There are no wrong roads to anywhere.
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You must never feel badly about making mistakes.
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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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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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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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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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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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I think really good books can be read by anybody.
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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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Freedom is not a license for chaos.
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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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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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But I could never have done it," he objected, "without everyone else's help." "That may be true," said Reason gravely,"but you had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.
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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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In this box are all the words I know… Most of them you will never need, some you will use constantly, but with them you may ask all the questions which have never been answered and answer all the questions which have never been asked. All the great books of the past and all the ones yet to come are made with these words. With them there is no obstacle you cannot overcome. All you must learn to do is use them well and in the right places.
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The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way.
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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.
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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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Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.