Lorax Book Quotes & Sayings

What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death? — James Cameron

Whatever is happening is the path to enlightenment. — Pema Chodron

'The Lorax' book was intended to be propaganda. — Dr. Seuss

I pondered on this desert hospitality and, compared it with our own. I remembered other encampments where I had slept, small tents on which I had happened in the Syrian desert and where I had spent the night. Gaunt men in rags and hungry-looking children had greeted me, and bade me welcome with the sonorous phrases of the desert. Later they had set a great dish before me, rice heaped round a sheep which they had slaughtered, over which my host poured liquid golden butter until it flowed down on to the sand; and when I protested, saying 'Enough! Enough!', had answered that I was a hundred times welcome. Their lavish hospitality had always made me uncomfortable, for I had known that as a result of it they would go hungry for days. Yet when I left them they had almost convinced me that I had done them a kindness by staying with them — Wilfred Thesiger

Just about anybody is a big girl in a small world but you gotta believe it on the inside, that you can be bigger than the rest of it. — Lizzo

I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers. — Harvey Pekar

Worse, I convinced myself our tragedy was entirely her making. I spent years working myself into the very thing I swore she was: a righteous ball of hate. — Gillian Flynn

The past never truly dies. It is there, waiting, just below the surface of the now. — John Connolly

Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. — Mark Twain

Why did Ted Geisel end up writing and illustrating for young minds? He has specific imagery in the book, and we never would have moved beyond the discussion phase, if we couldn't have found an expression for The Lorax, dimensionally, that was true to the soul of what comes through in his simple line drawings, on the page. — Christopher Meledandri

If watching television doesn't hasten death, it surely manages to make death very inviting; for television so shamelessly sentimentalizes and romanticizes death that it makes the living feel they have missed something - just by staying alive. — John Irving