“My goodness,” thought Milo, “everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.” — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
“I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit.” The” — Norton Juster Demon Copy Share Image
And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer. — Norton Juster Knowledge Copy Share Image
“And, as you've discovered, so many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.” — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
“You often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than right for the wrong reasons.” — Norton Juster Right reasons Copy Share Image
AHA!" interrupted Officer Shrift, making another note in his little book. "Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything. — Norton Juster Book Copy Share Image
...it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. “You’ll find,” he remarked gently, “that the only thing you can do… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
“You can get in a lot of trouble mixing up words or just not knowing how to spell them. If we ever… — Norton Juster Children-s Copy Share Image
“Kad god se nasmiješiš, radost se oko tebe širi poput kolobara u bari, i kad god si tužan, nitko nigdje ne može… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
Every sunrise gives you a new beginning and a new ending. Let this morning be a new beginning to a better relationship… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
“I didn't know that I was going to have to eat my own words,' objected Milo. 'Of course, of course, everyone here… — Norton Juster Communication Copy Share Image
It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to… — Norton Juster Book Copy Share Image
You see, to tall men I'm a midget, and to short men I'm a giant; to the skinny ones I'm a fat… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
In this box are all the words I know…Most of them you will never need, some you will use constantly, but with… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
“Can you spell everything?" asked Milo admiringly. "Just about," replied the bee with a hint of pride in his voice. "You see,… — Norton Juster Education Copy Share Image
“As you can see, that leaves almost no time for brooding, lagging, plodding, or procrastinating, and if we stopped to think or… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
“There are other advantages," continued the child. "For instance, if one rat were cornered by nine cats, on the average, each cat… — Norton Juster Children Copy Share Image
“Now, remember: they're not for eating, but for listening, because you'll often be hungry for sounds as well as food. Here are… — Norton Juster Appreciation Copy Share Image
I know one thing for certain; it is much harder to tell whether you are lost than whether you were lost, for,… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
“Very serious, very serious,” the gateman said, shaking his head also. “You can’t get in without a reason.” He thought for a… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
“I wonder where I am," said Milo in a very worried tone. "You're . . . in . . . the .… — Norton Juster Doldrums Copy Share Image
“I warned you; I warned you I was the Senses Taker," sneered the Senses Taker. "I help people find what they're not… — Norton Juster Help people Copy Share Image
“You see,” he continued, beginning to feel better, “once there was no time at all, and people found it very inconvenient. They… — Norton Juster Eating lunch Copy Share Image
“It's completely logical," explained the Dodecahedron. "The more you want, the less you get, and the less you get, the more you… — Norton Juster Arithmetic Copy Share Image
“Dictionopolis is the place where all the words in the world come from. They're grown right here in our orchards." "I didn't… — Norton Juster Language Copy Share Image
But why do only unimportant things?" asked Milo, who suddenly remembered how much time he spent each day doing them. "Think of… — Norton Juster Career Copy Share Image
Whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way. Why,… — Norton Juster Breeze Copy Share Image
“Tako kad nema baš ništa, uvijek imaš i više nego dovoljno. To je vrlo ekonomičan sistem.” — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
“Why is it,' he said quietly, 'that quite often even the things which are correct just don't seem to be right?” — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort. — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
