Encyclopedia Quote by Roger Angell Download Open image “Everyone knows the best volume of the encyclopedia is the one with ships-S.” — Roger Angell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Encyclopedia Knows Ships Volume
An encyclopedia is a system for collecting dust in alphabetical order. — Mike Barfield Copy Share Image
There is enough information capacity in a single human cell to store the Encyclopedia Britannica, all 30 volumes of it, three or four times over. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The best ship, the best culture, the best knowledge, is the one which allows us to go farther, explore more territories or oceans of… — Jesús Zamora-Bonilla Copy Share Image
Me, I'm an encyclopedia. I'm not a very smart guy, but I'm an encyclopedia. You can ask me about anything you want. Probably I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only true and effective "operator's manual for spaceship earth" is not a book that any human will ever write; it is hundreds of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Life is so encyclopedic, that even great knowledge giving books fails infront of it.. — Yashwardhan Pauranik Copy Share Image
I'm quite good at taking in information so I voraciously inhale Wikipedia - which may have some things wrong in it, but I think… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
Encyclopedias are finished. All encyclopedias combined, including the redoubtable Britannica, have already been surpassed by the exercise in groupthink known as Wikipedia. — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Oh the wonderful knowledge to be found in the stars. Even the smallest things are written there ... if you had but skill to read. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“An encyclopedia is a book or set of books filled with facts from A to Z. So was Encyclopedia's head. He had read more… — Donald J. Sobol Copy Share Image
Losing is the bane and bugbear of every professional athlete's existence, but in baseball the monster seems to hang closer than in other sports,… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
We are all writers and readers as well as communicators with the need at times to please and satisfy ourselves with the clear and… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear now and then, and… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
Our stories about our own lives are a form of fiction, I began to see and become more insistent as we grow older, even… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
This was a new recognition that perfection is admirable but a trifle inhuman, and that a stumbling kind of semi-success can be much more… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
Baseball's time is seamless and invisible, a bubble within which players move at exactly the same pace and rhythms as all their predecessors. This… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours, there is really no… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
I don’t read Scripture and cling to no life precepts, except perhaps to Walter Cronkite’s rules for old men, which he did not deliver… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
Sports are too much with us. Late and soon, sitting and watching - mostly watching on television - we lay waste our powers of… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
Friends of mine said later that they had been riveted by a postgame television close-up of Wade Boggs, sitting alone in the dugout with… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
“But that woman is an encyclopedia! Of all vices, ancient and modern, and terribly interesting to leaf through! ” — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
“Tony Cox, still a painter and not yet married to Yoko Ono, pioneered in the use of mescaline for draft-evasion. 400 milligrams taken before… — Peter Stafford Copy Share Image
The Encyclopedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man. The marketing division of the Sirius… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If Christianity cannot present evidence that the soul is immortal, then they have nothing to offer the masses, eternity in heaven with God or… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
A library is many things. It's a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It's a place to go if you… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
When I have my students do erasures, I'm always amazed by the way their voice comes through, whether they're doing an erasure of a… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
I grew up in the 'hood around prostitutes, drug dealers, killers, and gangbangers, but I also grew up juxtaposed: On the doorknob outside of… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
People ask me all the time what or who my influences are. To be honest, it would take a decent set of encyclopedias to… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
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