Dr. Seuss Quotes

The thing that doesn't fit is the thing that's the most interesting: the part that doesn't go according to what you expected.

I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life.

Come on,'he says.' I have something else to show you.

I just stood there staring, because while I've seen a lot of weird things, I hadn't ever seen that.

I understand, as an artist as well as a producer, the need for there to be mystery and surprise.

I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.

There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.

Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.

What a dull world if we knew all about geese!

One of the most important keys to acting is curiosity. I am curious to the point of being nosy. What that means is you want to devour lives. You're eager to put on their shoes and wear their clothes and have them become a part of you. All people contain mystery, and when you act, you want to plumb that mystery until everything is known to you.

I try to hang on to as much mystery as possible. How can we go through our lives not wanting to have any element of surprise?’

I've definitely seen things that have made me laugh. And there's some things that are really smart and like, "Oh man, we should have done that, that's really cool!" And there's some things that are like, "Oh, do they know something? I don't know!" So there's the whole variety of things that are in those theories. But they're cool.

Wonder is not precisely knowing.

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.

It's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it?

A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy.

Are you who I think you are?

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.

I had just sat down at a table with Star [Jones] and, bam, it just popped all over Star's shoes. Star was like, 'What is that!?' I said, 'My water broke!'

The unknown always passes for the marvellous.

She tilted her head, considering the sensation. "It is strange." He gave a hiss of laughter at the words. "It only gets stranger, darling. But we shall try for something more.

What's going on?" Newt asked, looking back and forth between Thomas and Aris. "Why're you guys looking at each other like you just fell in love?

I have no idea,' he tells her, and there is such a spark in his eye when he says it, she can tell having no idea is exactly the way he wants it.

But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiosity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city.

Why the devil was my husband positively grinning - and with what looked remarkably like relief?