Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

The fools standpoint is that all social institutions are games. He sees the whole world as game playing. That's why, when people take their games seriously and take on stern and pious expressions, the fool gets the giggles because he knows that it is all a game.

Alan Bennett

I'm for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.

Edith Wharton

Since the Americans have ceased to have dyspepsia, they have lost the only thing that gave them any expression.

David Icke

Authority ought to be there only to serve its particular community by removing restrictions on freedom of expression and action under my golden rule of 'Do what you like so long as you don't impose it on others'. Authority's role should be in protecting the unwilling from the will of another. After that, they should push off and leave us alone.

David Hume

Uncommon expressions are a disfigurement rather than an embellishment of discourse.

Ben van Berkel

I never show the back of my tongue. That is a Dutch expression.

Jack Kerouac

But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless they can latch to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end.

Bill O'Reilly

I know the constitution in Oregon was passed in 1859. Free expression of opinion.

Charles Taylor

We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression.

Deb Caletti

...we are all a volume on the shelf of the... library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands.

Thomas Jefferson

A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.

Bill Moyers

When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.

Bill Watterson

County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I'll stop you when...Hello?

Bud Schmidt

We're going to get a new library here.

Bjarne Stroustrup

I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries

Bjarne Stroustrup

The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.

Bill Gates

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

Beverly Cleary

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

Tom Renney

When you've heard from the ref once, you've kind of got to suck it up.

Tom Renney

When you've heard from the referee once that you've got to kind of suck it up and quit yapping, you should probably do that.

Michelle Evans

We were at a cross-roads last week when we heard the news that Ft. Chaffee was no longer sending hurricane survivors to the area.

Dan Doherty

When we heard the news yesterday, everyone was just devastated. He made a huge impact at Pearl River in a short time 5 1/2 years.

Tom Eagleson

When we heard it was her appendix, we all thought the worst. But then, it turned out to be kidney stones.

Todd Helton

When we heard about (Barmes), we were thinking, 'That's terrible, what are we going to do,' ... Then the skipper leaves and his daughter's having seizures, and it puts it all back in perspective really quick.

Ednita Nazario

It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me

Charles Kuralt

You never heard anybody ask 'Elvis who?'

Michelle Collins

At first I didn't say anything, but when my roommate got home she said she heard people talking about it all over the city. By then it was like IHOP on a Sunday morning.