Frasi di Norton Juster

Norton Juster is 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. Wikipedia  

✵ 2. Giugno 1929   •   Altri nomi נורטון ג'סטר
Norton Juster: 40   frasi 3   Mi piace

Norton Juster: Frasi in inglese

“So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”

Norton Juster libro The Phantom Tollbooth

Variante: So many things are possible as long as you don't know they're impossible.
Origine: The Phantom Tollbooth

“Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.”

Norton Juster libro The Phantom Tollbooth

Origine: The Phantom Tollbooth

“The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.”

Norton Juster libro The Phantom Tollbooth

Origine: The Phantom Tollbooth

“Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.”

Norton Juster libro The Phantom Tollbooth

Origine: The Phantom Tollbooth

“You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.”

Norton Juster libro The Phantom Tollbooth

Origine: The Phantom Tollbooth

“It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.”

Norton Juster libro The Phantom Tollbooth

Origine: The Phantom Tollbooth

“The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between.”

Norton Juster libro The Phantom Tollbooth

Variante: 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.
Origine: The Phantom Tollbooth

“But just because you can never reach it, doesn’t mean that it’s not worth looking for.”

Norton Juster libro The Phantom Tollbooth

Variante: Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.
Origine: The Phantom Tollbooth

“There are no wrong roads to anywhere.”

Norton Juster libro The Phantom Tollbooth

Origine: The Phantom Tollbooth

“… what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.”

Norton Juster libro The Phantom Tollbooth

Variante: What you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.
Origine: The Phantom Tollbooth

“Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.”

Norton Juster libro The Phantom Tollbooth

Origine: The Phantom Tollbooth

“Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?”

Norton Juster libro The Phantom Tollbooth

Origine: The Phantom Tollbooth

“… 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.”

Variante: …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 libro The Phantom Tollbooth

Origine: The Phantom Tollbooth

“What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.”

Norton Juster libro The Phantom Tollbooth

Origine: The Phantom Tollbooth

“You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.”

Norton Juster libro The Phantom Tollbooth

Origine: The Phantom Tollbooth

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