D28402 Quotes & Sayings

The priest is immense because he makes others believe in a heap of weird things. The Church wanting to do everything and be everything: it is a law of human spirit. Peoples adore authority. Priests are the servants and followers of imagination. The throne and the altar: revolutionary maxim. — Charles Baudelaire

If you want to be a reference librarian, you must learn to overcome not only your shyness but also the shyness of others! — S.R. Ranganathan

I cannot count the days on which I found myself driving abruptly blinded by tears. — Joan Didion

I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of his science; most of the few pupils who go a step further, and usually to keep the metaphor, remain in the process of gathering information, become only Halbwisser [one who has superficial knowledge of the subject], for the rarer talents do not want to have themselves educated by lecture courses, but train themselves. And with this thankless work the professor loses his precious time. — Carl Friedrich Gauss

She met a boy
and called him Stargazer
because instead of poems
he recited the names of constellations.


He said the freckles on his arms
were roadmaps to the sky,
and the bruises that he carried
were supernovas in disguise.

"Stargazer — Alaska Gold

Find a secret place and be unreachable! And then, in the silence of solitude, the things you cannot reach in the crowds will meet you there! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It was a shitshow of emotional carnage, just pure tear-soaked chaos worse than any Grey's Anatomy episode. — Karina Halle

If the very thought of taking off all your clothes in the middle of the Washington Mall during a school holiday makes you blush, you haven't even begun to dream what it feels like to publish a book. — Nancy Mairs

There's a lot of racism going on. Who's more racist, black people or white people? It's black people! You know why? Because we hate black people too! Everything white people don't like about black people, black people really don't like about black people. — Chris Rock