I remember one letter from a girl in a midwestern town who read one of my books and thought she had discovered… — J. P. Donleavy Copy Share Image
A reader's tastes are peculiar. Choosing books to read is like making your way down a remote and winding path. Your stops… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Records can be destroyed if they do not suit the prejudices of ruling cliques, lost if they become incomprehensible, distorted if a… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
I read a lot - surveys of vernacular music. A lot of it is the Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music,… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
There is humanist enterprise of the book, and amongst that there are many, many stories. And that is why at the end,… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
We honor ambition, we reward greed, we celebrate materialism, we worship acquisitiveness, we commercialize art, we cherish success and then we bark… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Making money isn't the main point of business. Money is a by-product… A new product has been found, something of use to… — Humphrey Bogart Copy Share Image
I can't help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out for themselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
Professor Wilkes is best known as the builder and designer of the EDSAC, the first computer with an internally stored program. Built… — Maurice Wilkes Copy Share Image
Those who delve into the scriptural library … find that to understand requires more than casual reading or perusal—there must be concentrated… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
“I like to imagine that library school was started because of some sort of silly bar bet where a guy got really… — Scott Douglas Copy Share Image
“The library smells like old books-a thousand leather doorways into other worlds." "Dear sir, I was called away and couldn't bring you,… — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share Image
“Plenty of patrons had asked me strange things, but this was the first who asked me where my car was parked. It… — Scott Douglas Copy Share Image
Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the candle's flickering light, the library's thousands of books emerged from the shadows, and for a moment Nicholas could not help… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
We got a copy of the 'New Statesman' at my grammar school in Wigton, Cumbria, in the 1950s. It sat mint fresh… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
He was talking about the sign that said 'THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE.' 'All knew was that I didn't want my daughter… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“But then his parents changed. A year of California had changed them. They stopped sending money. Greg was forced to go out… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
We live in a world with "free" content, and this freedom is not an imperfection. We listen to the radio without paying… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I would walk into the Carnegie Library and I would see the pictures of Booker T. and pictures of Frederick Douglass and… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
I used to stand in front of the mirror in my bedroom. I shared a bedroom - like a lot of people… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
A library is but the soul's burial ground; it is the land of shadows. Yet one is impressed with the thought, the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Look, science is hard, it has a reputation of being hard, and the facts are, it is hard, and that's the result… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is… — William Osler Copy Share Image
“Until one morning, one of the coldest mornings of the year, when I came in with the book cart and found Jean… — Vicki Myron Copy Share Image
Half of my library are old books because I like seeing how people thought about their world at their time. So that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Everything is 'smart' now. The library cataloging system is smart, classification and indexing information entered into a uniform online database. People wept… — Christopher Sorrentino Copy Share Image
Most of my library consists of books on the Catholic faith: conversion stories, books on saints and Early Church Fathers, Apparitions of… — Gail Buckley Copy Share Image
When I use a name or place, I want to leave the reader open to the waterfall of determinacy that it may… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
“There’s something deep in the heart of every person that wants to protect culture. The only thing about my pending career that… — Scott Douglas Copy Share Image
Three times a year, theres Strategicon convention, and I go for the board games. It happens Presidents Day, Labor Day, and Memorial… — Rich Sommer Copy Share Image
“For DeHaven it was well worth the extra money to a federal budget that had always allocated more to war than it… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
To see what books were available for my older students, I made many trips to the library. If a book looked interesting,… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
Despite the heat in her face, it felt as if cold needles of ice were running up and down her veins. "What… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
It would seem that emotions are the curse, not death-emotions that appear to have developed upon a few freaks as a special… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Then the question began to live under my blankets: How did lesbianism begin? What were the symptoms? The public library gave information… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Today, if you have an Internet connection, you have at your fingertips an amount of information previously available only to those with… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Knowledge is inherent in man; no knowledge comes from outside; it is all inside. We say Newton discovered gravitation. Was it sitting… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
And of course Charlotte hasn't eaten a bit of dinner," Henry said, getting up. "I'll go see if Bridget can't make her… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
