Famous Norton Juster Quotes

  • Rhyme and reason answer all problems – Norton Juster

    Rhyme and reason answer all problems– Norton Juster

  • A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables. – Norton Juster

    A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.– Norton Juster

  • He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory. – Norton Juster

    He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory.– Norton Juster

  • 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

    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

  • And that’s why people no longer care which words they use as long as they use lots of them. – Norton Juster

    And that’s why people no longer care which words they use as long as they use lots of them.– Norton Juster

  • We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don’t care if they make sense or nonsense. – Norton Juster

    We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don’t care if they make sense or nonsense.– Norton Juster

  • …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. – Norton Juster

    …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.– Norton Juster

  • Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub? – Norton Juster

    Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?– Norton Juster

  • And Milo, full of thoughts and questions, curled up on the pages of tomorrow’s music and eagerly awaited the dawn. – Norton Juster

    And Milo, full of thoughts and questions, curled up on the pages of tomorrow’s music and eagerly awaited the dawn.– Norton Juster

  • 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. – Norton Juster

    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. – Norton Juster