Works
The Phantom Tollbooth
Norton JusterThe Phantom Tollbooth
Norton JusterFamous Norton Juster Quotes
Norton Juster Quotes
“So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth
Variant: So many things are possible as long as you don't know they're impossible.
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
“Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.”
Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
“The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.”
Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
“Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.”
Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
“You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.”
Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
“It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.”
Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
“The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between.”
Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth
Variant: The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
“But just because you can never reach it, doesn’t mean that it’s not worth looking for.”
Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth
Variant: Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
“There are no wrong roads to anywhere.”
Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth
Variant: What you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
“Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.”
Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
“Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?”
Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
Variant: …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.
“… I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall.”
Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
“If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.”
Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
“What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.”
Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
“Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.”
Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
“You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.”
Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
“But I suppose there's a lot to see everywhere, if only you keep your eyes open.”
Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
“Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.”
Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
