“Look at me!
Look at me!
Look at me NOW!
It is fun to have fun
But you have to know how.”
― Dr. Seuss, quote from The Cat in the Hat
“I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.”
― Dr. Seuss, quote from The Cat in the Hat
“And this mess is so big
And so deep and so tall,
We cannot pick it up.
There is no way at all!”
― Dr. Seuss, quote from The Cat in the Hat
“The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day.”
― Dr. Seuss, quote from The Cat in the Hat
“Cat, you ruined mom's dress!"
"Honey, it was ruined when she bought it.”
― Dr. Seuss, quote from The Cat in the Hat
“He should not be here, " said the fish in the pot. " he should not be here when your mother is not.”
― Dr. Seuss, quote from The Cat in the Hat
“you find magic wherever you look. sit back and relax. all you need is a book”
― Dr. Seuss, quote from The Cat in the Hat
Dr. Seuss
Born place: in Springfield, MA, The United States
Born date March 2, 1904
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“For twenty-five years I've been speaking and writing in defense of your right to happiness in this world, condemning your inability to take what is your due, to secure what you won in bloody battles on the barricades of Paris and Vienna, in the American Civil War, in the Russian Revolution. Your Paris ended with Petain and Laval, your Vienna with Hitler, your Russia with Stalin, and your America may well end in the rule of the Ku Klux Klan! You've been more successful in winning your freedom than in securing it for yourself and others. This I knew long ago. What I did not understand was why time and again, after fighting your way out of a swamp, you sank into a worse one. Then groping and cautiously looking about me, I gradually found out what has enslaved you: YOUR SLAVE DRIVER IS YOU YOURSELF. No one is to blame for your slavery but you yourself. No one else, I say!”
― Wilhelm Reich, quote from Listen, Little Man!
“...it is more civilized to make fun of life than to bewail it.”
― Seneca, quote from On the Shortness of Life
“Small! I'm mot going to be small anymore. I'm going to be a dragon, with wings like lacquer fans and jets of fire breath for roasting up goose suppers midair!" Pippin spread out her arms, imagining them wings. Why not? she asked herself.”
― Carrie Ryan, quote from Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction
“Can't you just keep your big mouth shut?" Brian said furiously to Nan. He pointed to Chrestomanci. "How do we know he's safe? For all we know, he could be the devil that you summoned up!"
"Oh, you flatter me, Brian," Chrestomanci said.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, quote from Witch Week
“We do not belong to ourselves alone, she wanted to say, but there was no one to speak to.”
― Amanda Coplin, quote from The Orchardist
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