Sorters Quotes & Sayings

On climate change, there is a clear, definitive and ineluctable ethical imperative to act. — Pope Francis

What a vapid job title our culture gives to those honorable laborers the ancient Egyptians and Sumerians variously called Learned Men of the Magic Library, Scribes of the Double House of Life, Mistresses of the House of Books, or Ordainers of the Universe. 'Librarian' - that mouth-contorting, graceless grind of a word, that dry gulch in the dictionary between 'libido' and 'licentious' - it practically begs you to envision a stoop-shouldered loser, socks mismatched, eyes locked in a permanent squint from reading too much microfiche. If it were up to me, I would abolish the word entirely and turn back to the lexicological wisdom of the ancients, who saw librarians not as feeble sorters and shelvers but as heroic guardians. In Assyrian, Babylonian, and Egyptian cultures alike, those who toiled at the shelves were often bestowed with a proud, even soldierly, title: Keeper of the Books. - p.113 — Miles Harvey

What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out. — Alfred Hitchcock

We are not promised skies always blue, but a Helper to see us through. — Suzanne Woods Fisher

If you are a short-term trader, you have the right to come and go from our funds. — Louis Navellier

I have preserved my identity, put its credibility to the test and defended my dignity. What good this will bring the world I don't know. But for me it is good. — Vaclav Havel

The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, 'Seek simplicity and distrust it. — Alfred North Whitehead

The food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that we can bear to bite it. — H. Rider Haggard

Most people work all week to get to the weekend. A few work all weekend for years to get to freedom. — Robert Kiyosaki

Public taste changes and the aesthetic of a culture changes over time, so the idea isn't to appeal to the aesthetic of the moment and what people will like right now; the idea is to somehow keep yourself in the public memory so that as taste evolves it will eventually come to embrace your thing. So, it's about writing to be remembered rather than writing to be liked. — Chuck Palahniuk

In her own headspace — Robert Pobi

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it. — Thomas A Kempis

Most 'scientists' are bottle washers and button sorters. — Robert A. Heinlein

I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice. — Corliss Lamont