Book Quote by Shelby Foote Download Open image “A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.” — Shelby Foote ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Building Educational Groups Librarian Libraries and librarians Library Reading Thought provoking University
A university is a reading and discussion club. If students knew how to use the library, they wouldn't need the rest of the buildings.… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
A university is supposed to be a place where all ideas are discussed. — Jerry Falwell, Jr Copy Share Image
The library is…a university of the people, from which the students are never graduated. — Katharine Sharp Copy Share Image
A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
We thought of universities as the cathedrals of the modern world. In the middle ages, the cathedral was the center and symbol of the… — Roger Revelle Copy Share Image
An institution of higher education is a partnership among students and alumni, faculty and administrators, donors and trustees, neighborhoods and more, to build a… — Ben Sasse Copy Share Image
No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam.… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
“For my part I consider the central idea pervading this struggle is the necessity that is upon us of proving that popular government is not an absurdity. We must settle this question now, whether in a free government the minority have the right to break up the government whenever they choose. If we fail it will go far to prove… — Shelby Foote Copy Share
I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
“He is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk but then insist on a… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
I ran into Ku Klux Klan and the threat of hurricanes, and those two things made me decide not to build on the Alabama… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
I took five years on the first volume, five years on the second volume, and ten years on the third volume. — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't mean you know anything about marketing. Or layout. Or editing. Or publicity. Or selling your books for foreign markets.Everyone can point to a few examples of people that have done very well for themselves self-publishing. But… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
