You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time. — Norton Juster Problem Copy Share Image
“For always remember that while it is wrong to use too few, it is often far worse to use too many." -… — Norton Juster Appreciation Copy Share Image
“Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things.” — Norton Juster Bright side Copy Share Image
He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory. — Norton Juster Lips Copy Share Image
...I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall. — Norton Juster Child Copy Share Image
The way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from. — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
“Što više želiš, to manje dobivaš, a što manje dobivaš, sve više imaš.” — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
“You weren't thinking and you weren't paying attention either. People who don't pay attention often get stuck in the Doldrums.” — Norton Juster Doldrums Copy Share Image
Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or lots… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
“People laughed less and grumbled more, sang less and shouted more, and the sounds they made grew louder and uglier. It became… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
...it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that… — Norton Juster Education Copy Share Image
“Why not take a few pounds of ‘happys’?” advised the salesman. “They’re much more practical—and very useful for Happy Birthday, Happy New… — Norton Juster Birthday Copy Share Image
“He punctuated this last thought with such a deep sigh that a house sparrow singing near by stopped and rushed home to… — Norton Juster Family Copy Share Image
“Why, did you know that there are almost as many kinds of stillness as there are sounds? But, sadly enough, no one… — Norton Juster Serenity Copy Share Image
But I could never have done it," he objected, "without everyone else's help." "That may be true," said Reason gravely,"but you had… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
“Yes, indeed," they repeated together; "but if we'd told you then, you might not have gone--and as you've discovered, so many things… — 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
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
“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
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
“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
Since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking. — Norton Juster Order Copy Share Image
“I didn't know that I was going to have to eat my own words: - Milo” — Norton Juster Childrens-literature Copy Share Image
Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet. — 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
People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
“Tako kad nema baš ništa, uvijek imaš i više nego dovoljno. To je vrlo ekonomičan sistem.” — Norton Juster 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
Sometimes I find the best way of getting from one place to another is simply to erase everything and begin again. — Norton Juster Begin again Copy Share Image
Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things. - Humbug — Norton Juster Bright side 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
“For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.” — Norton Juster Right reasons Copy Share Image
One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read… — Norton Juster Books Copy Share Image
And that's why people no longer care which words they use as long as they use lots of them. — Norton Juster Care Copy Share Image
“It is much better to look for what I may never find than to find what I do not really want.” — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
“and, most of all, of how much could be accomplished with just a little thought.” — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub? — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
But I suppose there's a lot to see everywhere, if only you keep your eyes open. — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything. — Norton Juster Education Copy Share Image
