Illustrator Quotes

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

Young cat! If you keep Your eyes open enough, Oh, the stuff you will learn! The most wonderful stuff!

You ought to be thankful a hole heaping lot, for The places and people you're lucky you're not!

Oh, the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all. Fame! You'll be as famous as famous can be, with the whole wide world watching you win on TV. Except when they don't Because, sometimes they won't. I'm afraid that some times you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.

Fun is good.

And what would you do if you met a jibboo?

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad... you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! Some people are much more... oh, ever so much more... oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you!

Be awesome! Be a book nut!

You make 'em, I amuse 'em. [children]

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

In my world, everyone's a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!

Day Play We play all day. Night Fight We fight all night.

People who mind don't matter. But people who matter don't mind.

Sometimes crazy just isn't enough.

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.

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

They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

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

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

It's opener, out there, in the wide, open air.

A Wasn’t just isn't. He just isn't present. But you… You ARE YOU! And, now isn't that pleasant!

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

The three words that best describe you are as follows, and I quote: stink. Stank. Stunk.

I am the Lorax! I speak for the trees, Which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please; But I also speak for the brown Barbaloots, Who frolicked and played in their Barbaloot suits, Happily eating Truffula fruits. Now, since you've chopped the trees to the ground There's not enough Truffula fruit to go 'round! And my poor Barbaloots are all feeling the crummies Because they have gas, and no food, in their tummies.

Congratulations! Today is your day!

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.

Poor empty pants With nobody inside them.

It has often been said there’s so much to be read, you never can cram all those words in your head. So the writer who breeds more words than he needs is making a chore for the reader who reads. That's why my belief is the briefer the brief is, the greater the sigh of the reader's relief is. And that's why your books have such power and strength. You publish with shorth! (Shorth is better than length.)

You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!

When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED.

Today is gone. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one. Every day, from here to there, funny things are everywhere.

Think! Think and wonder. Wonder and think. How much water can 55 elephants drink?

We've taught you that the earth is round, That red and white make pink, And something else that matters more - We've taught you how to think.

[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.

Catch! calls the Once-ler. He lets something fall. It's a Truffula Seed. It's the last one of all! You're in charge of the last of the Truffula Seeds. And Truffula Trees are what everyone needs. Plant a new Truffula. Treat it with care. Give it clean water. And feed it fresh air. Grow a forest. Protect it from axes that hack. Then the Lorax and all of his friends may come back.

Life's just one great journey. It's a road we travel as we go from point A to point B. What makes that journey worthwhile is the people we choose to travel with, the people we hold close as we take steps into the darkness and blindly make our way through life. They're the people who matter.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

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

If you want to catch beasts you don't see every day, You have to go places quite out of the way, You have to go places no others can get to. You have to get cold and you have too get wet, too.

Big Z, little Z, what begins with Z? I do. I'm a zizzer zazzer zuzz, as you can plainly see.

A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses. To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

Teeth are always in style.

Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)

It is better to know how to learn than to know.

I speak for the trees!

When you're in a Slump, you're not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is not easily done.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

Because when a guy does something stupid once, well, that’s because he’s guy. But if he does the same stupid thing twice, that’s usually to impress some girl.

You have to be a speedy reader 'cause there's so, so much to read!

Shorth is better than length.

Reading can take you places you have never been before.

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.

You can think about red. You can think about pink. You can think up a horse. Oh, the THINKS you can think!

It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.

People are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love.

I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.

My shoe is off. My foot is cold. I have a bird I like to hold.