Theodor Seuss Geisel Quotes

Alessandra wrote:

To label this book "Dr. Seuss" is too much.
He never yet wrote it, nor genius it touched.
It's flat, it's pedantic, it leaves children bored,
The very things Teddy S. Geisel abhorred.
Go read some real Dr. Seuss if you wish.
Let these hand-puppet zombies drone on about fish. ~ Bonnie Worth

I'm glad that so many of Donald Pease's unique and revealing insights on Dr. Seuss
observations he shared with me on camera with an effusiveness and profundity quite unmatched
have found their way into book form. No one tells these tales of young Ted, Mr. Geisel, and Dr. Seuss, and makes the connections between the three of them, quite like Dr. Pease. ~ Ron Lamothe

And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked. ~ Dr. Seuss

Big Z, little Z, what begins with Z? I do.
I'm a zizzer zazzer zuzz, as you can plainly see. ~ Dr. Seuss

Congratulations! Today is your day! ~ Dr. Seuss

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward. ~ Theodor Adorno

There can be no poetry after Auschwitz. ~ Theodor Adorno

Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn't eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower! ~ Jim Carrey

You'll meet things that will scare you right out of your pants! ~ Dr. Seuss

Onward up many a frightening creek, though your arms may get sore and your sneakers may leak. Oh! The places you'll go! ~ Dr. Seuss

The taboos that constitute a man's intellectual stature, often sedimented experiences and unarticulated insights, always operate against inner impulses that he has learned to condemn, but which are so strong that only an unquestioning and unquestioned authority can hold them in check. ~ Theodor Adorno

Poor empty pants
With nobody inside them. ~ Dr. Seuss

Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people. ~ Theodor Adorno

We humans have grown cleverer but not wiser . ~ Theodor W. Adorno

No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit. ~ Theodor Adorno

I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you. ~ Dr. Seuss

Everything stinks till it's finished. ~ Dr. Seuss

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic. ~ Theodor Adorno

The character of a people may be ruined by charity. ~ Theodor Herzl

Normality is death. ~ Theodor Adorno

One fish. Two fish. Red fish. Blue fish. Black fish. Blue fish. Old fish. New fish. This one has a little star. This one has a little car. Say! What a lot of fish there are. ~ Dr. Seuss

Think and wonder, wonder and think. ~ Dr. Seuss

I would read the Shel Silverstein poems, Dr. Seuss, and I noticed early on that poetry was something that just stuck in my head and I was replaying those rhymes and try to think of my own. In English, the only thing I wanted to do was poetry and all the other kids were like, "Oh, man. We have to write poems again?" and I would have a three-page long poem. I won a national poetry contest when I was in fourth grade for a poem called "Monster In My Closet. ~ Taylor Swift

When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality. ~ Theodor Adorno

You can find magic
wherever you look.
Sit back and relax,
all you need is a book. ~ Dr. Seuss

My own life is wonderful, but if I had to live the life of someone else, I'd gladly choose that of Julia Child or Dr. Seuss: two outrageously original people, each of whom fashioned an idiosyncratic wisdom, passion for life, and sense of humor into an art form that anyone and everyone could savor. ~ Julia Glass

He who licks his wounds cannot be affectionate ~ Theodor Reik

Being crazy isn't enough. ~ Dr. Seuss

The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation ... kitsch ~ Theodor Adorno

Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed. ~ Theodor Adorno

It's not about what it is, but about what it can become. ~ Dr. Seuss

What human beings seek to learn from nature is how to use it to dominate wholly both it and human beings. Nothing else counts. ~ Theodor Adorno

The mistake ... was attributed in part to the fact that employees called the 3-year note 'Losh' and the 5-year note 'Bosh'. The comic mixing of 'Loshes' and 'Boshes' sounded more like a Dr. Seuss children's book than a cutting-edge risk-management operation. ~ Frank Partnoy