Simek Library Quotes & Sayings

My Alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. — David Mamet

her bedroom and picked up — Mia Caldwell

I've never tried to run away from my race. I was born a black man. You know that in your bones as soon as you are able to understand this country ... My approach to life about race is, I don't see the difference between black people and white people. — Edward Brooke

We don't ask why God chose as his prophet a stutterer with a public speaking phobia. But we should. The book of Exodus is short on explication, but its stories suggest that introversion plays yin to the yang of extroversion; that the medium is not always the message; and that people followed Moses because his words were thoughtful, not because he spoke them well. — Susan Cain

Doing Shakespeare on stage with Kenneth Branagh, I don't think it gets better than that. — Richard Madden

The importance of being earnest, — Oscar Wilde

Listening is everything. Listening is the whole deal. That's what I think. And I mean that in terms of before you work, after you work, in between work, with your children, with your husband, with your friends, with your mother, with your father. It's everything. And it's where you learn everything. — Meryl Streep

Soon there was only a tattered fragment of darkness, hanging in midair, the other side of the window. Fear caught my throat. The tattered fragment of darkness had a face. Looking at it, I understood the reason for my fear. The face was my own. — Elie Wiesel

Messages from the unseen that the great Alan Turing left behind at his death: Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition. — Jim Holt