Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Handler

With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.

Cybill Shepherd

I had the serendipity of modeling during a temporary interlude between Twiggy and Kate Moss, when it was actually okay for women to look as if we ate and enjoyed life.

David Levithan

I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

...maximize the serendipity around you.

Erin McKean

Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult.

Jason Silva

There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.

Katori Hall

Serendipity always rewards the prepared.

Ken Stott

I always leave room for serendipity and chance.

Michael Behe

In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be far chancier than we thought, but still possible. Such an appeal to brute luck can never be refuted... Luck is metaphysical speculation; scientific explanations invoke causes.

Diane Setterfield

What better place to kill time than a library?

David McCullough

Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.

David Strathairn

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.

Thomas Jefferson

A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.

Beverly Cleary

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

Deb Caletti

...we are all a volume on the shelf of the... library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands.

Barbara Tuchman

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

bell hooks

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library..

Diana Wynne Jones

Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.

Charles de Lint

Look inside yourself for the answers - you're the only one who knows what's best for you. Everybody else is only guessing.

Alan Autry

We can no longer let the threat of an early frost send a chill of fear throughout a large portion of our workforce. Diversification is the only answer.

Dale Mitchell

We know what kinds of products are being sold to homeowners in the state but we don't know how those products are being used. The household use survey will help provide some answers to the questions we've had about residential use of pesticide products.

William Scott

When I was an undergraduate at Princeton, freshman year, first term, I ended up in the course on Plato's Republic. That book just captivated me - not because of the answers, and the answers can be somewhat unsatisfying, but because of the questions, the way you went at it, the methods, the kinds of questions you could ask, the different answers you could get. That's why I'm still fascinated by that book.

David Mitchell

Why ask a question whose answer would demand ten more questions?

David Lange

Will the United States pull the rug on New Zealand? The answer is no. They might polish the lino a bit harder and hope that I execute a rather unseemly glide across it.

David Rakoff

Unfortunately, there's no greater rhyme or reason as to why it would be me. And since there is no answer as to why me, it's not a question I feel really entitled to ask.

Carl Sagan

Ask courageous questions. Do not be satisfied with superficial answers. Be open to wonder and at the same time subject all claims to knowledge, without exception, to intense skeptical scrutiny. Be aware of human fallibility. Cherish your species and your planet.

Stephan Sirard

There are definitely answers only the cab driver can give us.