You really have to get to know Dewey to dislike him.

“Dewey sent him, I thought, when I saw those eyes.”

— Vicki Myron

“Until one morning, one of the coldest mornings of the year, when I came in with the book cart and found Jean Hollis Clark,…

— Vicki Myron

“Dewey Hall was the only building on campus not made of brick, and the tornado came for it in absolute maturity, no umbilical growth…

— Leif Enger

“When he introduced himself as Dewey, I said, “It’s an honor to meet you Mr. Decimalsystem.”

— Jarod Kintz

“In the main, the trouble with American education is that we have put into practice the educational philosophy expounded by John Dewey and his…

— Barry M. Goldwater

“For Dewey, the Great Community was the basic fact of history. The individual and the soul were invalid concepts, man was truly man, not…

— R.J. Rushdoony

He wished he was with his mom in her library, where everything was safe and numbered and organized by the Dewey decimal system. Ben…

— Brian Selznick

Part of my job is to help other kids find books, because not everyone has a keenly organized mind. Some kids could wander the…

— Neal Shusterman

“I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.”

— Nick Hornby

“Dr. Beall gave him the first shot, followed closely by the second. He said, "I'll check for a heartbeat." I said, "You don't need…

— Vicki Myron

(about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the "Arts and Lit non-fiction section) I personally find that for domestic…

— Nick Hornby

“Yes, I speak Dewey Decimal.”

— Sandra Beasley

Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for.

— Brian Selznick

“Ah, the Dewey decimal system…humankind’s single greatest achievement.” From Candace Fleming’s The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School”

— Candace Fleming

“To Dewey, if brevity was the soul of wit, stagecraft was the very center of politics.”

— David Pietrusza