Quote

Do you think it will rain? Milo: But I thought you were the Weather Man? No, I'm the Whether man, for it is more important to know whether there will be weather, whether than what the weather will be.

Norton Juster

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Norton Juster
Age: 91 †
Born: 1929
Born: June 2
Died: 2021
Died: March 8
Architect
Author
Novelist
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Think
Thinking
Milo
Weather
Rain
Whether
Thought
Important
Men

More quotes by Norton Juster

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 matters.
Norton Juster
Image
if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.
Norton Juster
Image
Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality.
Norton Juster
Image
You see, it's really quite simple. A simile is just a mode of comparison employing 'as' and 'like' to reveal the hidden character or essence of whatever we want to describe, and through the use of fancy, association, contrast, extension, or imagination, to enlarge our understanding or perception of human experience and observation.
Norton Juster
Image
They all looked very much like the residents of any small valley to which you've never been.
Norton Juster
Image
Oh dear, all those words again, thought Milo as he climbed into the wagon with Tock and the cabinet members. How are you going to make it move? It doesn't have a-- Be very quiet, advised the duke, for it goes without saying.
Norton Juster
Image
I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.
Norton Juster
Image
But I suppose there's a lot to see everywhere, if only you keep your eyes open.
Norton Juster
Image
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
Image
I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting
Norton Juster
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
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
Image
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.
Norton Juster
Image
Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.
Norton Juster
Image
Why not? That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.
Norton Juster
Image
You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.
Norton Juster
Image
You must never feel badly about making mistakes.
Norton Juster
Image
Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. I imagine by now it's quite rusty.
Norton Juster
Image
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
Image
If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.
Norton Juster