Librarianish Quotes & Sayings

We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batching people. We have to move to a model that is based more on principles of agriculture. We have to recognize that human flourishing is not a mechanical process; it's an organic process. And you cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do, like a farmer, is create the conditions under which they will begin to flourish. — Ken Robinson

The simplest questions are the most difficult. — William S. Burroughs

Cinch together the whole look with a wide belt" was a very popular style in the early 2000s, which we believed accentuated our curves but in reality made a generation of women look like we were wearing lumbar support braces. — Mindy Kaling

The ideas that we have about self are an aggregate within a state of mind, and they chain us to a state of mind. — Frederick Lenz

Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination. — Sofia Kovalevskaya

Have faith in yourself, Keep morality, Have energetic behavior, Keep stillness of mind, Reflect on the teachings, Develop good habits, and perseverance. — Nissim Amon

I can't believe my eyes. — Marty Feldman

I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead. — Sting

I don't know if I was funny as a child, though I always thought my parents really enjoyed listening to me sing. — Pippa Evans

A couple of times he called the second he'd finished reading a novel and just had to tell me about it, and I know it sounds hokey and librarianish to say so, but I just swooned when he did that. — Sarah Vowell

For a long moment, he lay there, staring at a minuscule crack that had begun to reach from one end of the ceiling to the other. Cracks were always there; no matter how well repaired, there would always be weakness. — S.E. Jakes

Mrs. Cadbury: Tell me what you know about yourself.
Anne Shirley: Well, it really isn't worth telling, Mrs. Cadbury ... but if you let me tell you what I IMAGINE about myself you'd find it a lot more interesting. — L.M. Montgomery

What do you know of my heart, priestess? What do you know of my sister? — George R R Martin

The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce. — Miguel De Cervantes