Bedfellows Quote by Phyllis Rose Download Open image ““Libraries make strange bedfellows”” — Phyllis Rose ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bedfellows Libraries Libraries Make Strange Strange bedfellows Writer
“Libraries, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I’ve been seduced by their labyrinthine logic.”… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“Libraries are the wardrobes of literature, whence men, properly informed may bring forth something for ornament, much for curiosity, and more for use.” — William Dyer Copy Share Image
“Libraries are not, or at least should not be, engines of productivity. If anything, they should slow people down and seduce them with the… — Barbara Fister Copy Share Image
“A library after closing is a lonely place. It is heart-poundingly silent, and the rows of shelves create an almost unfathomable number of dark… — Vicki Myron Copy Share Image
“Libraries are a force for good. They wear capes. They fight evil. They don’t get upset when you don’t send them a card on… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“A silent Library is a sad Library. A Library without patrons on whom to pile books and tales and knowing and magazines full of… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Libraries always remind me that there are good things in this world.” — Lauren Ward Copy Share Image
“Who can resist the thought that love is the ideological bone thrown to women to distract their attention from the powerlessness of their lives?” — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
More people should visit Antarctica, metaphorically speaking, on their own. That is one of the conclusions I have reached, one of my recommendations: explore… — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
When you realize how hard it is to know the truth about yourself, you understand that even the most exhaustive and well-meaning autobiography, determined… — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
biographies are a little like marriages: You only have room in your life for one or two. — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
“Some kinds of literature demand to be treated respectfully. The obligation is on the reader to live up to them and not so much… — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
There is no neutrality. There is only greater or lesser awareness of one's bias. — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
“Most people should visit Antarctica, metaphorically speaking, on their own. That is one of the conclusions I have reached, one of my recommendations: explore… — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
“The banal advice of writ in teachers is "write what you know," but the truth is, you don't know a place until you write… — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with. — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
I believe we need literature, which, by allowing us to experience more fully, to imagine more fully, enables us to live more freely. — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
This cold weather has set all the young Folks to providing Bedfellows. I have signed two or three Licences every Day [as a Fairfax… — George Mason Copy Share Image
Celebrity and charity have been bedfellows for many years. The key is to try and choose practical, sound and effective ones. There is no… — Billy Zane Copy Share Image
The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship. — Marcel Achard Copy Share Image
For corporations to be bedfellows with the arts is good business for both. The architecture that houses a company is a more visible statement… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
Ancient wisdom and quantum physicists make unlikely bedfellows: In quantum mechanics the observer determines (or even brings into being) what is observed, and so,… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
I like to piece together different guitarists, unlikely bedfellows. You have Jonny Greenwood playing next to Nile Rodgers on the same track, so it… — Bryan Ferry Copy Share Image
“The reason politics makes strange bedfellows is because they all like the same bunk.” — Los Angeles Times Copy Share Image
In a sense, the music business and I haven't always been the best of bedfellows. Artists often have to fight their corner. Your music… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image