“In my world,
everyone's a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!”
“Why fit in when you
were born to stand out?”
“If I were invited
to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up.”
“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen
Hard. Practice wellness. Play with abondon. Laugh. Choose with no regrets.
Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this
is all there is”
“Today you are You,
that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
“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...”
“I do not like green
eggs and ham I do not like them Sam-I-Am.”
"And today the
Great Yertle, that Marvelous he
Is King of the Mud.
That is all he can see."
“I know, up on top
you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have
rights.”
“And the turtles, of
course...all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should
be.”
"All ready to
put up the tents for my circus.
I think I will call
it the Circus McGurkus.
"And NOW comes
an act of Enormous Enormance!
No former
performer's performed this performance!" If I ran the Circus
“A person's a
person, no matter how small.”
“Unless someone like
you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to
get better. It's not.”
“Fantasy is a
necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong
end of a telescope.”
“From there to here,
from here to there, funny things are everywhere!”
“I meant what I said
and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!”
“Adults are just
obsolete children and the hell with them.”
“You are you. Now,
isn't that pleasant?”
“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.”
“Big Z, little Z,
what begins with Z? I do.
I'm a zizzer zazzer
zuzz, as you can plainly see.”
“All alone! Whether
you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!”
“ASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, 'Act
swiftly awesome pacyderm!”
“I am the Lorax. I
speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.”
“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!”
“Look at me!
Look at me!
Look at me NOW!
It is fun to have
fun
But you have to know
how.”
“And this mess is so
big
And so deep and so
tall,
We cannot pick it
up.
There is no way at
all!”
“Writing simply
means no dependent clauses, no dangling things, no flashbacks, and keeping the
subject near the predicate. We throw in as many fresh words we can get away
with. Simple, short sentences don't always work. You have to do tricks with
pacing, alternate long sentences with short, to keep it vital and alive....
Virtually every page is a cliffhanger--you've got to force them to turn
it."”
“I’m glad we had the
times together just to laugh and sing a song, seems like we just got started
and then before you know it, the times we had together were gone.”
― Dr. Seuss
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