Standardization, instead of individualization. Cheap books, instead of private press editions. Active literature, instead of passive leather bindings. — Jan Tschichold
A library is where ideas sleep between covers, waiting for you to discover them. — Lois Ehlert
We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames. — Rudolf Bing
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait. — Anatole Broyard
A library is a repository of medicine for the mind — Greek Proverbs
Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. — Virginia Woolf
Short Catalog Quotes
I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all. — W. Somerset Maugham
I don't know of any plans to remaster the Mr Mister catalog. — Pat Mastelotto
I used to make up names when I used to catalog my stuff. — Richard D. James
I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog. — Erykah Badu
The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
I used to make up names when I used to catalog my stuff. — Aphex Twin
We could move catalog, if he'd only die quicker. — Tom Petty
I don't know of any plans to remaster the Mr Mister catalog. — Lee Patrick Mastelotto
Here is another miserable mental image I will have to catalog and make room for. — Patrick deWitt
Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it. — Daniel Handler
Friendship Quotes
Love, friendship, laughter... Some of the best things in life really are free. — Bob Marley
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. — Ann Landers
The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being. — Konrad Lorenz
To be honest with you, I don't have the words to make you feel better, but I do have the arms to give you a hug, ears to listen to whatever you want to talk about, and I have a heart; a heart that's aching to see you smile again. — Laura Ortiz
Nature Quotes
As long as judges tinker with the Constitution to 'do what the people want,' instead of what the document actually commands, politicians who pick and confirm new federal judges will naturally want only those who agree with them politically. — Antonin Scalia
While people are struggling unhappily in the cities against the cruel authorities, a waterfall happily and cheerfully flows in the nature; there is happiness only if there is freedom! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power. — Dick Gregory
The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics. — Galileo Galilei
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. — Frank Lloyd Wright
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. — Alexander Hamilton
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living. — David Attenborough
Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear. — Hippocrates
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. — Henry David Thoreau
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. — George Washington Carver
Education Quotes
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. — Nelson Mandela
The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done. — Jean Piaget
Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated. — Saddam Hussein
Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it. — John Henrik Clarke
Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood. — Mahatma Gandhi
I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall. — Eleanor Roosevelt
As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue. — Zadie Smith
History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events. — A. J. P. Taylor
Taste. You cannot buy such a rare and wonderful thing. You can't send away for it in a catalogue. And I'm afraid it's becoming obsolete. — Rosalind Russell
When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over school. — Jensen Ackles
A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers, or in the breasts of benevolent enthusiasts. — James Madison
We are a collage of our interests, our influences, our inspirations, all the fragmentary impressions we've collected by being alive and awake to the world. Who we "are" is simply a finely curated catalog of those. — Maria Popova
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy. — Bela Lugosi
There is not so agonizing a feeling in the whole catalogue of human suffering as the first conviction that the heart of the being whom we most tenderly love is estranged from us. — Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer
Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias. — Bertrand Russell
Public art is ephemeral by nature. Google 's new project not only catalogs an artist's work but archives it and allows people to see the art long after it has disappeared. — Shepard Fairey
Science is not about cataloging a history of events that have occurred in the past and presuming they’re going to occur again in the future. — Naval Ravikant
The second evolutionary contribution that the REM-sleep dreaming state fuels is creativity. NREM sleep helps transfer and make safe newly learned information into long-term storage sites of the brain. But it is REM sleep that takes these freshly minted memories and begins colliding them with the entire back catalog of your life’s autobiography. — Matthew Walker
I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog. — Sandra Cisneros
You all got only three friends in this world: The Lord God Almighty, the Sears Roebuck catalog and Eugene Talmadge. And you can only vote for one of them — Eugene Talmadge
It would also be strange to find in the midst of a catalog of the rights of individuals a provision securing to the states the right to maintain a designated "Militia." Dispassionate scholarship suggests quite strongly that the right of the people to keep and bear arms meant just that. — Antonin Scalia
But however long you may have continued in rebellion, and how ever black and long the catalog of your sins, yet if you will now turn to God by a sincere repentance, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall not be cast out. — Archibald Alexander
I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time. — Nate Berkus
Today, most women are surrounded by ingenious gadgets. They don't grow the peas or raise the chicken that they serve for dinner; instead they hunt and gather in the grocery store. They go through catalogs or department stores to buy clothes instead of shearing sheep, carding wool, and weaving cloth for skirts and coats and blankets. — Helen Fisher
There is a danger when we give young people only a catalog of dos and don'ts. In these young minds, the gospel is not intellectually credible. — Ravi Zacharias
A true prayer is an inventory of needs, a catalog of necessities, an exposure of secret wounds, a revelation of hidden poverty. — Charles Spurgeon
Theory is a dirty word in some managerial quarters. That is rather curious, because all of us, managers especially, can no more get along without theories than libraries can get along without catalogs and for the same reason: theories help us make sense of incoming information. — Henry Mintzberg
The catalog of emotion that disappears when someone dies, and the degree to which we rely on a few people to record something of what life was to them, is almost too much to bear. — Sarah Manguso
My drawing began as a way to count my blessings. To study, capture, catalog the things that, despite it all, make my life rich. — Danny Gregory
I don't see myself doing catalog shoots in Madrid anymore like I was doing two years ago. I hope that the acting side of things grows. — Brooklyn Decker
We've got the catalog, now we just have to figure it out. It's not going to be one gene. It's going to be an accumulation of changes. — Bob Waterston
PERSONALITY TITHE: A price paid for becoming a couple; previously amusing human beings become boring: 'Thanks for inviting us, but Noreen and I are going to look at flatware catalogs tonight. Afterward we're going to watch the shopping channel. — Douglas Coupland
Since the traditional recorded-music business models have drastically changed, there is truly diminished income derived from recorded music by artists - both current and catalog. The touring industry has become much more important as a majority revenue stream and the ancillary fan experiences and promotions that may be derived from it. — Irving Azoff
Shera's Two Laws of Cataloging: Law #1, No cataloger will accept the work of any other cataloger. Law #2: No cataloger will accept his/her own work six months after the cataloging. — Jesse Shera
I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they're feeling because that's how I read the seed catalogs in January. — Barbara Kingsolver
It changes over the course of life, depending on how you're feeling. There's this incredible catalog of different songs, so it depends on what you're hoping for, what your dream is and that song will come on. — Bill Walton
Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry on Hungarian poetry. — Marisha Pessl
It's my job to know what's available from every retailer, catalog, website, antiques mall, and craftsperson. A good designer or decorator has to have an almost encyclopedic knowledge. — Nate Berkus
In this project, I wanted to ... find an absolute catalog, something that I couldn't interrupt, curate or edit by choice. This led me to blood. — Taryn Simon
You could look at nature as being like a catalog of products, and all of those have benefited from a 3.8-billion-year research and development period. — Michael Pawlyn
Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system. — Lars Ulrich
When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend. — Rachel Zoe
In the end, a new Americanization movement can't just be about listing our privileges and immunities, which we catalog in our laws. It also has to be about reinforcing our duties, which we convey in our habits. — Eric Liu
For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in. — Barbara Tuchman
I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote some terrific songs. Then all of a sudden, we'd go for another two or three months and there weren't great songs. — Barry Mann
I was very outgoing, and a good-looking kid. I started doing all the catalogs. I made 60 commercials by the time I was 6. I must have been a natural, because I never took an acting lesson. — Rick Schroder
The orbs have probably sold better through catalogs because they can be categorized unlike at most stores. — David Rose
You can browse to your heart's content but it's hard work and not easy on the feet unless you do it through catalogs or the Internet, and I like to touch and try on the things I buy. — Judith Krantz
I remember ordering records out of the Dischord catalog in the '80s, and there would be a handwritten note. — Beto O'Rourke
I don't know how old I was when I first started going to shows, maybe 14 or 15, but very quickly, I discovered Dischord Records in D.C. and loved all the music on that catalog. I was a big Rites of Spring fan, Minor Threat, of course. — Beto O'Rourke
The minute we have a pain, we want a diagnosis. So I think the minute we feel love, it's very hard to just let it be. We want to identify it, we want to catalog it, we want to keep the thing and create the environment it happened in. That's where marriage comes from! Let's make an institution out of it! — Debra Winger
Every time you go in and make a record it is like a calling card, not so people can come and hear you live or are interested in your catalog. — George Thorogood
There was a guy named Ed Mishell. He was this grandfatherly guy who did all the illustrations for the catalogs and reviewed magic effects for the magic magazines, so all of the magic dealers would send him magic effects for free-it was a great deal. His basement was full of this stuff. He took me under his wing, and he would sneak me into the Society of American Magicians meetings in New York. It's the world's oldest magic organization. — David Copperfield
The only problems I sometimes have is if I ask for a piece for a group show, if I ask for a piece - I would like to put it into a show, sometimes the collectors get possessive about it and don't want to let something happen. Say you get full credit, you know. You give them your name, the catalog and it always enhances the value of the piece, you know, the more shows it is in, blah, blah, blah. — Robert Barry
I think my entire songwriting catalog reflects where I was in my life at the time. I capture whatever moment I am experiencing in life. — Rayvon Owen
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