“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
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“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.”
“A person's a person, no matter how small.”
“How did it get so late so soon?”
“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
“So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you'll move mountains.”
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
“I meant what I said and I said what I meant.”
“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”
“You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.”
“Being crazy isn't enough.”
“You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.”
“Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.”
“From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!”
“You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!”
“If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too.”
“I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!”
“All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!”
“They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!”
“Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.”
“From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.”
“A person's a person, no matter how small.”
“You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.”
“Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”
“You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed. You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead. Wherever you fly, you'll be best of the best. Wherever you go, you will top all the rest. Except when you don't. Because, sometimes, you won't.”
“Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.”
“Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.”
“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.”
“Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!”
“Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.”
“Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.”
“Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.”
“I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!”
“'The Lorax' book was intended to be propaganda.”
“I am not a consecutive writer.”
“Be awesome! Be a book nut!”
“I box in yellow Gox box socks.”
“I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.”
“When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles... ...they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle.”
“I was saving the name of 'Geisel' for the Great American Novel.”
“The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it's a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.”
“If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.”
“I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.”