Norton Juster Quotes

The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray.

I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

I don't know why it's called "getting lost." Even when you turn down the wrong street, when you find yourself at the dead end of a chain-link fence or a road that turnd to sand, you are somewhere. It just isn't where you expected to be.

We're right here on this very spot. Besides, being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't - and I don't care at all about where I'm not.

I was actually lost in Beirut on the way home.

We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

I remember distinctly running through my neighborhood, thinking I knew how to get to 'Sesame Street,' and then finally finding myself among some scrub trees and realizing I don't know where to go from here. I had to just mope back home.

I lost my way for a long time.

We're lost, but we're making good time.

I get lost a lot.

When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost.

The explorer is the person who is lost.

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

A learned man came to me once. He said, "I know the way, -- come." And I was overjoyed at this. Together we hastened. Soon, too soon, were we Where my eyes were useless, And I knew not the ways of my feet. I clung to the hand of my friend; But at last he cried, "I am lost.

I didn't have a clue where I was going on my first lap of practice.

It's impossible to map out a route to your destination if you don't know where you're starting from.

Trying to find my way around the Rayburn building is always a challenge. Combining my poor sense of direction with a confusing design is not good.

Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.

There are no signposts in the sea.

We're not lost. We're locationally challenged.

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

I have a terrible sense of direction.

I now know my right from my left and my up from my down. Unluckily, my terrible sense of direction remains. For me, to live in New York City is to never be able to meet someone on the northeast corner. It is to never ever make a smooth entrance, always to get caught looking lost on the street.