Dr. Seuss Quotes

“Be awesome! Be a book nut!”

“Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're real quite lucky.”

“I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.”

“Gray day. Everything is gray. I watch. But nothing moves today.”

“Shorth is better than length.”

“Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.”

“Think they work you too hard? Think of poor Ali Sard. He has to mow grass in his uncle's backyard and its quick growing grass and it grows as he mows it the faster he mows it the faster he grows it. And all that his stingy old uncle will pay for his shoving mower around the hay is piffulous pay of two dooklas a day. And Ali can't live on such piffulous pay!”

“Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done!”

“Now, the Star-Belly Sneetches had bellies with stars. The Plain-Belly Sneetches had none upon thars.”

“Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age.”

“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.”

“Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!”

“Think and wonder, wonder and think.”

“Fame you'll be famous, as famous as can be, with everyone watching you win on TV, Except when they don't because sometimes they won't.”

“[A]s you partake of the world's bill of fare,that's darned good advice to follow.Do a lot of spitting out the hot air.And be careful what you swallow.”

“ASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, 'Act swiftly awesome pacyderm!”

“Congratulations! Today is your day!”

“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.”

“Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing.”

“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."~”

“Oh, the places you will go.”

“You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.”

“My trouble was I had a mind but I couldn't make it up!”

“Being crazy isn't enough.”

“I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I'll probably... drop writing children's books and become a political cartoonist again.”