Quotes of: Public-library Keyword

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.

Anatole France

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.

Anatole France

My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

Alan Garner

They should be taking bonuses from bankers, not library books from schoolchildren. What kind of society are we building?

Sara Sheridan

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn." (1872)

Victor Hugo

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

William Shakespeare

I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area.

Neil Gaiman

My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.

Robert Darnton

So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position.

Thom Mayne

Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

We do not measure a culture based on its output of undisguised trivialities, but what it claims as significant.

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

In every tool we create, an idea is embedded that goes beyond the function of the thing itself.

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Publicity is the soul of stupidity, but we must not forget that we live in a stupid universe, so publicity is the engine of our world.

Aforismi contro il potere e la stupidità

Sometimes I regret going into that public toilet with your father.’ ‘Then practice safe sex, Mama!!’ ‘We were! There was a fight in the bar and we took cover in the public toilets!!

Living Dead Lovers

American socialism had lost momentum even before the war. (Socialist leader Norman Thomas received 885,000 votes in his 1932 run for the presidency, but only 187,500 in 1936.)

Running Commentary: PUBLICATION CANCELLED

Hesitate once, hesitate twice, hesitate a hundred times before employing political standards as a device for the analysis and appreciation of poetry.

Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere

Dogma in power does have a unique chilling ingredient not exhibited by power, however ghastly, wielded for its own traditional sake.

Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere

When I did my first price guide in 1979, publications weren't interested in mentioning it. Now I get phone calls weekly if not daily from publications and television shows who want to know what's hot, how to get started in antiques, and the best way ...

Judith Miller

I teach in the medical school, the School of Public Health, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Business School. And it's the best perch... because most of my work crosses boundaries.

Michael Porter

The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.

Paul Ryan

The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you.

Rush Limbaugh