Famous Quotes & Sayings

bell hooks

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library..

Elie Wiesel

..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.

Alberto Manguel

Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.

Alberto Manguel

Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.

Alberto Manguel

A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by demanding completion of sorts.

Alberto Manguel

The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.

Drew Barrymore

I have no internet savvy whatsoever, but I love researching things. The Internet is my library... beyond that, I'm completely intimidated by it.

Annie Dillard

It would seem that emotions are the curse, not death-emotions that appear to have developed upon a few freaks as a special curse from Malevolence. All right then. It is our emotions that are amiss. We are freaks, the world is fine, and let us all go have lobotomies to restore us to a natural state. We can leave the library then, go back to the creek lobotomized, and live on its banks as untroubled as any muskrat or reed. You first.

Susan Orlean

Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.

Tim Allen

I have a thing for tools.

Serj Tankian

Anti-depressan ts Controlling tools of your system Making life more tolerable Making life more tolerable

Sebastian Pinera

Business is a useful tool in politics, but it's not enough. You need much more than to be a good businessman, to be a good politician.

Socrates

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

Nora Roberts

I find I use the Internet more and more. It's just an invaluable tool. I do most of my research on the Net now - and certainly do the bulk of my communicating through email.

Michael Crichton

To apply general tools to specific problems is to fail.

Jeff Bridges

Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in.

Christina Aguilera

I find fragrance to be such a mood enhancer and definitely a seduction tool.

Richard P. Feynman

Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.

Ken Dulaney

You should take all user interfaces out of your applications,

Janet Jackson

That's a part of me going back to what I used to do.

Dean Koontz

Every talent is unearned, however, and with it comes a solemn obligation to use it as fully and as wisely as possible.

Billy Campbell

I'm not a big fan of CGI. I'm not a fan at all, unless they use it in a way that doesn't call attention to itself.

Brene Brown

We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others.

Bonnie Raitt

I learned a lot about what it was like to have to use different hotels and not use the bathrooms, which made me more determined to be an activist.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Rationality is the master lifehack which distinguishes which other lifehacks to use.

Aristotle

In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make.

Adam Sandler

I'm a big fan of money. I like it, I use it, I have a little. I keep it in a jar on top of my refrigerator. I'd like to put more in that jar. That's where you come in.