The Phantom Tollbooth Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.

Randall Jarrell

#4. Try your best to make goodness attractive. That's one of the toughest assignments you'll ever be given.

Fred Rogers

#5. 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

#6. One thing I have always been is too short. It's adorable when you're in junior high. After that, it's a pain in the ass for the rest of your life.

Elizabeth Berg

#7. My reputation when I was first here was that I had every single answer in the book. I don't know, maybe I portrayed that somehow. I was learning, and I continue to learn and I have learned.

Mike Holmgren

#8. I appreciate all my fans, on all occasions, everyday of my life. Its your presence & your loyalty that has given me great strength

Michael Jackson

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

Norton Juster

#10. The Beat Generation - that term is even more familiar now, even more than say the '70s. Hype is built and established and people link it back to a certain generation, in this case the '40s and '50s. Now everyone knows that that group was the Beat Generation.

Garrett Hedlund

#11. 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

#12. The weapons laboratory of Los Alamos stands as a reminder that our very power as pattern finders can work against us, that it is possible to discern enough of the universe's underlying order to tap energy so powerful that it can destroy its discoverers or slowly poison them with its waste.

George Johnson

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

Norton Juster

#14. The reason why we're strippers, is invariably more boring, more grounded in nonexistential needs like money - and pragmatic concerns, like money.

Ruth Fowler

#15. 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

#16. I've got a little fight in me, but I think that's good.

Scott Caan

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

Norton Juster

#18. We must play as if there are no more games, no more tomorrows ...

Jock Stein

#19. The whole of life is like that now. It's even impossible to think naturally because opinion has been set out for you to read back. Originality has been used up. And yet faith in one's uniqueness dies hard.

Tom Stoppard

#20. The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age.

Dorothy Parker