Microfilm Quotes & Sayings

Other people are, as a rule, so immaterial to us that, when we have entrusted to any one of them the power to cause so much suffering or happiness to ourselves, that person seems at once to belong to a different universe, is surrounded with poetry, makes of our lives a vast expanse, quick with sensation, on which that person and ourselves are ever more or less in contact. — Marcel Proust

People are curious. A few people are ... They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish. — Alice Munro

I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories. — Hannah Kent

If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. — Soren Kierkegaard

The world isn't set up equally, and the first billion people using Facebook have way more money than the rest of the world combined. — Mark Zuckerberg

The day people will start using their learner's instincts instead of the survival instincts in the education, our society will no longer be a place where education kills your knowledge. — Ameya Agrawal

If you live a rebellious lifestyle, then you rebel against things because they go against your ideals and the integrity of who you are as a person. — Flea

Every advance in information technology involves choosing what you want to preserve and what you want to ditch. Scanning rare books on to microfilm is a costly business. The library won't let you do it yourself - they decide first which books should be scanned and which should just rot away in the basement.
Against that eventuality, people should start hoarding the kind of books committees of rational people will decide against scanning into a database. — Robert Twigger

You see, we can feed the stomach with concentrates, we can supply microfilm for reading, recreation, even movies of a sort, we can pump oxygen in, and waste material out, but there's one thing we can't simulate. That's a very basic need. Man's hunger for companionship. The barrier of loneliness, that's one thing we haven't licked yet. — Rod Serling

As a week. She's been spanked with a spatula, slapped across — Christina Baker Kline

Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void. — Jean Baudrillard

While writing my memoir, 'When Skateboards Will Be Free,' I would sometimes have to pore over hours of microfilm at the New York Public Library in order to try to get one obscure detail right. For instance, was the Socialist Workers Party originally called the American Workers Party or the Workers Party of the United States? — Said Sayrafiezadeh

Have faith in your own instinct and your own truth. — Debasish Mridha

The feeling, all encompassing, safe and warm like a blanket permanently draped over her shoulders, follows her around. She takes it into the shower, to meals with her mother and sister, to work as she reads out the news script, her voice never faltering. — Zainab Omaki

Kittens, lay back. You are about to get Wallbanged. — Alice Clayton

Those who see all creatures in themselves And themselves in all creatures know no fear. 7 Those who see all creatures in themselves And themselves in all creatures know no grief. How — Anonymous

Win today, and walk together forever — Fred Shero

I took a course in speed reading. Then I got Reader's Digest on microfilm. By the time I got the machine set up, I was done. — Steven Wright

Then it is better, sir, to love whom one cannot have?"
"Probably better," Lancelot said. "Certainly safer. — John Steinbeck

The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm. — Gay Talese

When you are in neutral, you are completely open to whatever information needs to come through at that time for the highest good. We simply can't be neutral if our emotions get in the way. — Catherine Carrigan