You see, he continued, beginning to feel better, once there was no time at all, and people found it very inconvenient. They never knew whether they were eating lunch or dinner, and they were always mi...
You see, it's really quite simple. A simile is just a mode of comparison employing 'as' and 'like' to reveal the hidden character or essence of whatever we want to describe, and through the use of fan...
You often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than right for the wrong reasons.
You must excuse my gruff conduct, the watchdog said, after they’d been driving for some time, but you see it’s traditional for watchdogs to be ferocious.
Yes, indeed, they repeated together; but if we'd told you then, you might not have gone--and as you've discovered, so many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.
When he was in school he longed to be out, and when he was out he longed to be in. On the way he thought about coming home, and coming home he thought about going. Wherever he was he wished he were so...
Whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way...for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.
Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.
They walked for a while, all silent in their thoughts, until they reached the car and Alec drew a fine telescope from his shirt and handed it to Milo.Carry this with you on your journey, he said softl...
The Under-secretary of Understanding.
The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. You’ll find, he remarked gently, that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that’s hardly worth the effort.
Since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking.
No one paid any attention to how things looked, and as they moved faster and faster everything grew uglier and dirtier, and as everything grew uglier and dirtier they moved faster and faster, and at l...
Let me try once more, Milo said in an effort to explain. In other words--You mean you have other words? cried the bird happily. Well, by all means, use them. You're certainly not doing very well with...
Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.
It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.
Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.
I wonder where I am, said Milo in a very worried tone.You're . . . in . . . the . . . Dol . . . drums, wailed a voice that sounded far away. He looked around quickly to see who had spoken. No one was...
He punctuated this last thought with such a deep sigh that a house sparrow singing near by stopped and rushed home to be with his family.
For two days and nights and half another day again he walked – through lonely forests and down along the rushing mountain streams that seemed to know their destination far better than he knew his.