Phantom Tollbooth Quotes

#1. I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better - as in the 'Chronicles Of Narnia,' 'The Wizard Of Oz,' 'The Phantom Tollbooth,' the 'Dungeons & Dragons' cartoon on Saturday morning in the '80s.

Lev Grossman

#2. I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth.

Norton Juster

#3. You've never been ugly." The boy looked down at his hand filling the blank spaces in a science fiction scene. "Women treat you like you're a disease they might catch. And if in a weak moment they let you touch them, they make you pay.

Janet Fitch

#4. Many of the things which can never be, often are.

Norton Juster

#5. I'm not in shape.

Julie Bowen

#6. So each one of you agrees to disagree with whatever the other one agrees with, but if you both disagree with the same thing, aren't you really in agreement?

Norton Juster

#7. There is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye.

Norton Juster

#8. When he was in school he longed to be out, and when he was out he longed to be in. On the way he thought about coming home, and coming home he thought about going. Wherever he was he wished he were somewhere else, and when he got there he wondered why he'd even bothered.

Norton Juster

#9. If a situation requires swearing to God it is - by definition - extreme.

Pam Houston

#10. Suddenly, she employed those very English weapons: devious good manners and a rapid change of subject.

Patricia Duncker

#11. And that's why people no longer care which words they use as long as they use lots of them.

Norton Juster

#12. I had never taken acting at Brown to be the beginnings of a career. I always did it just for fun.

John Krasinski

#13. That's the way most everyone gets here. It's really quite simple: every time you decide something without having a good reason, you jump to Conclusions whether you like it or not. It's such an easy trip to make that I've been here hundreds of times.

Norton Juster

#14. Things don't just happen the way they happen for your its own Creator,Mentor and Destroyer

Abhishek Sundarraman