Quotes from Norton Juster

I)t's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what you do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters.

I)t's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what you do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters.... what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.

it seemed a great wonder that the world, which was so large, could sometimes feel so small and empty.

i dokle god je odgovor pravi, koga briga Å¡to je pitanje krivo?

Sve se na koncu svede na ništa.

Good question, good question," he exclaimed. "Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. Of course, some people never go beyond Expectations, but my job is to hurry them along whether they like it or not.

NONSENSE! Everyone loves a Humbug," shouted the Humbug. "As I was saying to the king just the other day——

In this box are all the words I know,' he said. 'Most of them you will never need, some you will use constantly, but with them you may ask all the questions which have never been answered and answer all the questions which have never been asked. All the great books of the past and all the ones yet to come are made from these words. With them, there is no obstacle you cannot overcome. All you must learn to do is use them well and in the right places.

Alec drew a fine telescope from his shirt and handed it to Milo. "Carry this with you on your journey," he said softly, "for there is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye. Through it you can see everything from the tender moss in a sidewalk crack to the glow of the farthest star—and, most important of all, you can see things as they really are, not just as they seem to be. It's my gift to you.

Ali što ?emo s Dvorcem u oblacima? Možda je on ipak važan. (...) Neka ga vjetar nosi, odgovorila je Smisla. I sretan mu put, dodala je Mjera, jer bez obzira koliko bio lijep, on je ipak samo zatvor.

BOSH!" replied the Humbug. "We're an old and noble family, honorable to the core—Insecticus humbugium, if I may use the Latin.

As you can see, that leaves almost no time for brooding, lagging, plodding, or procrastinating, and if we stopped to think or laugh, we'd never get nothing done." "You mean you'd never get anything done," corrected Milo. "We don't want to get anything done," snapped another angrily; "we want to get nothing done, and we can do that without your help.

You had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.

Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. Of course, some people never go beyond Expectations

You'll find that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort. - The Mathemagician

You see," continued another in a more conciliatory tone, "it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and go nowhere, which was just where we were going when you came along.

For instance, have you ever heard a square-wheeled steam roller ride over a street full of hard-boiled eggs he asked, and as he did, all that could be heard were loud crunching sounds.

You certainly must be very old to have reached the ground already. Oh no, said Milo seriously. In my family we all start on the ground and grow up, and we never know how far until we actually get there. What a silly system. The boy laughed. Then your head keeps changing its height and you always see things in a different way? Why, when you're fifteen things won't look at all the way they did when you were ten, and at twenty everything will change again.

I know one thing for certain; it's much harder to tell whether you ARE lost than whether you WERE lost, for, on many occasions where you're going is exactly where you are. On the other hand, you often find that where you've been is not at all where you should have gone, and, since it's much more difficult to find your way back from someplace you've never left, I suggest you go there immediately and then decide.

Closer and closer the demons loomed as the desperate chase neared its end. Then, gathering themselves for one final leap, they prepared to engulf first the bug, then the boy, and lastly the dog and his two passengers. They rose as one and——

Words and numbers are of equal value, for, in the cloak of knowledge, one is warp and the other woof.

You wouldn't like it much anyway," someone replied gently. "Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.

The Castle in the Air is far from here, and the one stairway which leads to it is guarded by fierce and black-hearted demons.

But what about my car?" he asked.