Norton Juster
Norton Juster
Norton Justeris an American academic, architect, and popular writer. He is best known as an author of children's books, notably for The Phantom Tollbooth and The Dot and the Line...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth2 June 1929
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Norton Juster quotes about
reason
But as you know, the most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between.
time giving needs
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.
optimistic long impossible
So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.
octopus phantom-tollbooth heard
Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?
cities attention lasts
No one paid any attention to how things looked, and as they moved faster and faster everything grew uglier and dirtier, and as everything grew uglier and dirtier they moved faster and faster, and at last a very strange thing began to happen. Because nobody cared, the city slowly began to disappear. Day by day the buildings grew fainter and fainter, and the streets faded away, until at last it was entirely invisible. There was nothing to see at all.
expectations unexpected
Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.
matter phantom-tollbooth can-do
What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.
names four would-be
Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things? You'd have to say Robert plus John equals four, and if the four's name were Albert, things would be hopeless.
secret today tomorrow
What you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.
smell gone phantom-tollbooth
A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.
tongue sound caught
Where is the sound?" someone hastily scribbled on the blackboard, and they all waited anxiously for the reply. Milo caught his breath, picked up the chalk, and explained simply, "It's on the tip of my tongue.
boys thinking interesting
For instance," said the boy again, "if Christmas trees were people and people were Christmas trees, we'd all be chopped down, put up in the living room, and covered in tinsel, while the trees opened our presents." "What does that have to do with it?" asked Milo. "Nothing at all," he answered, "but it's an interesting possibility, don't you think?
princess purpose may
You may not see it now," said the Princess of Pure Reason, looking knowingly at Milo's puzzled face, "but whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way.
buns care dukes
Perhaps you'd care for a synonym bun," suggested the duke.