“It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd.”
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Penelope Lively2
British novelist 1933Related quotes
“It seems to me that the dedication of a library is in itself an act of faith.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
Remarks at the Dedication of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park, New York, United States of America (June 30, 1941). Archived https://web.archive.org/web/20120531110501/http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/php63041.html from the original http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/php63041.html on January 30, 2021. <br class="br">1940s
“A man's library is a sort of harem.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
“Doesn't it seem like Chelsea's sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?”
David Shuster (1967) American television journalist
David Shuster: Chelsea Being "Pimped Out?", Feb 7, 2008 ( YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIxgw04Y0Fc) : On Chelsea Clinton campaigning for her mother. <br class="br">On MSNBC
Scott Douglas (1963) American wheelchair tennis player
Source: Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian
“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect some day to suffer vertigo.”
Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being
pg 56
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Two: Soul and Body
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Age of Bronze, Stanza 3, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Truth consists not in never lying but in knowing when to lie and when not to do so.”
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
Falsehood, i
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIX - Truth and Convenience
