Norton Juster Quotes

I've never been one to bet on the weather.

It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci.

I began as a weatherman and I learned very quickly I wasn't very good at it.

One can't predict the weather more than a few days in advance.

You can't say for certain what will happen to the weather in the long term.

Not reassuring when weathermen say 'Today will be terrible but don't worry it won't be as terrible as tomorrow or Friday.

Every cloud engenders not a storm.

Some are weatherwise, some are otherwise.

Do you know what 'meteorologist' means in English? It means liar.

We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

Viewers figure, 'Uncle Willard doesn't know any more about the weather than I do.' They're right.

It’s very hard to predict the weather. Predicting human affairs is very difficult.

Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.

Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.

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?

Weather is real. It is absolutely real: when it rains, it rains – you get wet, there is no question about it. It is also true about weather that you can’t control it; you can’t say if I wish hard enough it won’t rain. It is equally true that if the weather is bad one day it will get better and what I had to learn was to treat my moods like the weather.

Among all of our uncertainties weather is the most basic. We can’t live without it and we can’t control it.

Meteorologists are pretty faces reading scripts telling you whether it's going to rain tomorrow.

The weather is the weather. You have to deal with whatever is out there.

In Finland and the U.K. you can't predict the weather.

The rain, it raineth every day.

So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.

One of the things that I think we have learned is that we should all be very careful about making predictions about the future.