A Moment's Halt-a momentary taste
Of BEING from the Well amid the Waste-
And, Lo! the phantom Caravan has reach'd
The NOTHING it set out from. Oh, make haste! — Omar Khayyam
For in and out, above, about, below, 'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show, Played in a Box whose Candle is the Sun, Round which we Phantom Figures come and go. — Omar Khayyam
Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate; And many a Knot unravel'd by the Road; But not the Master-knot of Human Fate. — Omar Khayyam
To fathom Hell or soar angelic, just take a pinch of psychedelic. — Humphry Osmond
So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
A king of infinite space — William Shakespeare
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. — Anna Quindlen
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination. — Mary Oliver
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What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray. — Baron de Montesquieu
Because it corresponds to a vital need, love is overvalued in our culture. It becomes a phantom - like success - carrying with it the illusion that it is a solution for all problems. — Karen Horney
The stars were my best friends. The air was full of legends and phantoms, full of mythical and fair-tale creatures, which suddenly flew away over the roof, so that one was at one with the firmament. — Marc Chagall
This is how to contemplate our conditioned existence in this fleeting world:
Like a tiny drop of dew, or a bubble floating in a stream;
Like a flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
Or a flickering lamp, an illusion, a phantom, or a dream.
So is all conditioned existence to be seen. — Buddha
Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail. — Benito Mussolini
But beyond the hysteria of phantom death panels, where is the abomination? Show me the provisions that will hurt consumers, because if you think a $110 billion a year tax break for working-class Americans to buy private health insurance is a government takeover, I welcome the debate. — Jim McDermott
If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me. — Gaston Leroux
Truth ... Is a breath, a wind, A shadow, a phantom; Long have I pursued it, But never have I touched The hem of its garment. — Stephen Crane
For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. — Vladimir Nabokov
So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible. — Norton Juster
You must never feel badly about making mistakes. — Norton Juster
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. — Lev Grossman
The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort. — Norton Juster
Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub? — Norton Juster
Since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking. — Norton Juster
What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do. — Norton Juster
Why not? That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable. — Norton Juster
And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer. — Norton Juster
What you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow. — Norton Juster
Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things. - Humbug — Norton Juster
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
There is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye. — Norton Juster
The way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from. — Norton Juster
Many of the things which can never be, often are. — Norton Juster
Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet. — Norton Juster
But just because you can never reach it, doesn’t mean that it’s not worth looking for. — Norton Juster
Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. — Norton Juster
...it's very much like your trying to reach infinity. You know that it's there, you just don't know where-but just because you can never reach it doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for. — Norton Juster
Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. I imagine by now it's quite rusty. — Norton Juster
You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet. — Norton Juster
You may not see it now," said the Princess of Pure Reason, looking knowingly at Milo's puzzled face, "but whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way. — Norton Juster
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
It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would have been here much sooner if I hadn't made so many mistakes. I'm afraid it's all my fault. — Norton Juster
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
If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself. — Norton Juster
if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones. — Norton Juster
You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time. — Norton Juster
I don't know of any wrong road to Dictionopolis, so if this road goes to Dictionopolis at all it must be the right road, and if it doesn't it must be the right road to somewhere else, because there are no wrong roads to anywhere. Do you think it will rain? — Norton Juster
Let me try once more," Milo said in an effort to explain. "In other words--" "You mean you have other words?" cried the bird happily. "Well, by all means, use them. You're certainly not doing very well with the ones you have now. — Norton Juster
It's bad enough wasting time without killing it. — Norton Juster
...I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall. — Norton Juster
I always hated those fantasy books where, at the end, all the kids had to go home. At the end of a Narnia book, you always got shown the door. Same with The Wizard Of Oz and The Phantom Tollbooth. You get kicked out of your magic land. It's like, "By the way, here's your next surprise: You get to go home!" And the kids are all like, "Yay, we get to go home!" I never bought that. Did anybody buy that? — Lev Grossman
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