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
“You often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than right for the wrong reasons.” — Norton Juster Right reasons 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
“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, 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
Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality. — Norton Juster Cities Copy Share Image
“You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.” — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't eat too many of those [half-baked ideas] if I were you. They may look good, but you can get terribly… — Norton Juster Childrens-literature Copy Share Image
“So each one of you agrees to disagree with whatever the other one agrees with, but if you both disagree with the… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would have been here… — Norton Juster Climbing Copy Share Image
Oh dear, all those words again," thought Milo as he climbed into the wagon with Tock and the cabinet members. "How are… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd… — Norton Juster Ideas Copy Share Image
A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
Do you think it will rain? Milo: But I thought you were the Weather Man? No, I'm the Whether man, for it… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
And remember, also," added the Princess of Sweet Rhyme, "that many places you would like to see are just off the map… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
You see, years ago I was just an ordinary bee minding my own business, smelling flowers all day, and occasionally picking up… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
“What kind of a place is Expectations?" inquired Milo, unable to see the humor and feeling very doubtful of the little man's… — Norton Juster Disappointment Copy Share Image
“How are you going to make it move? It doesn't have a – " "Be very quiet," advised the duke, "for it… — Norton Juster Puns Copy Share Image
“Now and then, though, someone does begin to grow differently. Instead of down, his feet grow up toward the sky. But we… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
No one paid any attention to how things looked, and as they moved faster and faster everything grew uglier and dirtier, and… — Norton Juster Attention Copy Share Image
You see, it's really quite simple. A simile is just a mode of comparison employing 'as' and 'like' to reveal the hidden… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
“Don't try to leave for there's so very much to do, and you still have over eight hundred years to go on… — Norton Juster First job 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
“Don't you know anything at all about numbers?" "Well, I don't think they're very important," snapped Milo, too embarrassed to admit the… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
“Do all those words mean the same thing?” gasped Milo. “Of course.” “Certainly.” “Precisely.” “Exactly.” “Yes,” they replied in order. “Well, then,”… — Norton Juster Words 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
“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
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
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