![[On libraries] What's great about them is that anybody can go into them and find a book and borrow it free of charge and read it. They don't have to steal it from a bookshop... You know when you're young, you're growing up, they're almost sexually exciting places because books are powerhouses of knowledge, and therefore they're kind of slightly dark and dangerous. You see books that kind of make you go 'Oh!](/assets/img/quote-photos/on-libraries-whats-great-about-them-is-that-anybody-can-go-into-them-and-find.jpg)
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growing-up thinking black
I can't eat beans - all beans. I think because I'm half Cuban. So growing up, we were always eating black beans and rice, and I think I just said, 'Enough with it,' and I can't even stand to taste it anymore. Ryan Lochte
growing-up doors next
Growing up, there was always music around, whether across the street, or on the next-door neighbor's stereo. So, as in life, music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion. Music is amazing. Tyler Perry
growing-up want honest
When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen. Richard M. Nixon
growing-up police groups
I'm from Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. So, you grow up around police officers. Some of them are in your family, some of them you have encounters with. I had a young police officer we were friends with in our group. Tracy Morgan
growing-up thinking accepting
Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up. Robert Smith
growing-up school acting
Acting was my after-school activity. I never planned on growing up and becoming an actor. Sara Paxton
growing-up writing loss
She knew the intensity of adolescence, and knew no cure for it except growing up. And then one has age and experience, and mourns the loss of intensity. Maybe it's why musicians and mathmaticians are said to peak young-poetry needs the fire of an unbounded universe. Sara Paretsky
growing-up kids thinking
I think so much of what informs us as performers is what we had to endure as kids growing up. I was the youngest in my family. I always got a lot of attention. Sandra Bernhard
growing-up college musical
I did a lot of theater growing up, and in college I was in the musical 'Chicago.' Sarah Shahi
books cats cute forget garfield kid name pick says stop wrong
Kid books can get cute and a-d-o-r-a-b-l-e. Garfield says cute rots the intellect. Don't forget the name of the cat! You pick up cats the wrong way and they stop being adorable...they become Scratch. Stephen Jones
books choice freedom key kids motivated reason
Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Freedom of choice is a key to getting them motivated and excited. James Patterson
books critical fiercely harry kids love potter
Kids are so fiercely opinionated, that if they love the Harry Potter books and they go see the movie, they'll be the first to say, 'That was wrong! They didn't get that right!' They're storytellers themselves. They're critics. They're going to have the critical opinion. Spike Jonze
book interested kids start summer supplies taking thinking vacation
Kids are not interested in taking their summer vacation to start thinking about back-to-school wardrobes, supplies and book bags.
book game golf good itself justifies painting personal photograph picture playing taking wrote
I wrote this book for a sense of personal satisfaction. Just like taking a good photograph or painting a picture or playing a good golf game or something, it's the thing in itself that justifies it. William Rehnquist
bookstore crime love people shelves solving
Just look at the shelves of any bookstore in any airport, and you see how much people love crime and mysteries, how much they love solving puzzles.
book cannot minutes ought
I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in 20 minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it. Lord Byron
book jamie someday wrote
I actually wrote it down when Jamie said that. I'm going to use it in my book someday ? if I ever write a book.
book entire hang kept rules
He kept harping about 'What rules don't they know?' And I said, 'The entire rule book is something that they just don't know, that they should know.' He got a little testy about it and he said, 'If you don't like it, hang up' -- which I did. Bob Feller
dark loves touching
Here's someone who loves touching the dark side. Tony Scott
darker face innocent less pleasant shakes smiles strange stranger
L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level. Zach Galligan
darkest high humor loved passed people situations stake
There is humor in the darkest of moments - People who I have loved and passed away, and very high stake situations where you can't help but laugh. I think that's very human. Rose McIver
dark thinking focus
I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the positive. Rob Brydon
dark race literature
So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who can be the most dysfunctional. Richard Paul Evans
dark civilization hydrogen-bomb
Whether we ever get to know about them or not, there are very probably alien civilizations that are superhuman, to the point of being god-like in ways that exceed anything a theologian could possibly imagine. Their technical achievements would seem as supernatural to us as ours would seem to a Dark Age peasant transported to the twenty-first century. Imagine his response to a laptop computer, a mobile telephone, a hydrogen bomb or a jumbo jet. Richard Dawkins
dark flames indigo-spell
See? There it is again. My flame in the dark. Richelle Mead
dark flames shadow
You're my flame in the dark. We chase away the shadows around each other.
dark glasses natural-instinct
My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head for the next county, hoping nobody notices I've been in the neighborhood. Russell Baker