Classification In Library Quotes & Sayings

The majority of people believe in incredible things which are absolutely false. The majority of people daily act in a manner prejudicial to their general well-being. — Ashley Montagu

It is a gift, and you realize as soon as you cross the border into Paraguay, as I did, the first time in '82, that you are in a sort of wonderland. Nothing is quite right: the buildings, they've got their own architecture, their own language; and everything is just a little bit off key. — John Gimlette

This is perhaps what has made some suspect that the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was really a banana. — Jane Grigson

The decision reduction service would use its particular style and competence to create bundles of decisions you could accept or reject en masse. — Jaron Lanier

He turned now to his left, — Dan Brown

I don't care how much people understand what it is that I'm doing, except if they're players in my ensemble or other ensembles. I just want people to be moved by the music. If you're not moved by the music, then everything else falls away. You're not interested in the text, you're not interested in how it was done, and you're not interested in interviewing the composer and all the rest of it. — Steve Reich

I don't need to be asking for money for local museums and other projects just to make me look good back home. — Jim DeMint

It was that magical time of year, a time to enjoy and cherish those whom she loved so dearly. — Fern Michaels

Let no one read my principles who is not a mathematician," he famously declared (less famous is the fact that the principles he was referring to were his theories of how the aortic pulmonary valve worked). Ironically, he himself was a poor mathematician, often making simple mistakes. In one of his notes he counted up his growing library: "25 small books, 2 larger books, 16 still larger, 6 bound in vellum, 1 book with green chamois cover." This reckoning (with its charmingly haphazard system of classification) adds up to fifty, but Leonardo reached a different sum: "Total: 48," he confidently declared. — Ross King

Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies. — Madeleine Albright

To me there was no catharsis, only an unearthing of rotting corpses of memories, a baring og still suppurating wounds. — Robin Hobb

You dare to stand with my enemy? (Stryker)
Against you, Father, I'd stand with Mickey Mouse. (Urian) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

That's my dysfunction in the hallway. — Katie McGarry