Like Dewey, I was lucky. I got to leave on my own terms…

“Love is something that is beyond us. We can't anticipate love. When, where and with whom we fall in love is coincidental and wonderful…

— Santonu Kumar Dhar

“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

“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

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

— Candace Fleming

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

“Yes, I speak Dewey Decimal.”

— Sandra Beasley

(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

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

— Jarod Kintz

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

— Nick Hornby

“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

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

“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

“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

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