Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Bill Moyers

When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.

Bill Watterson

County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I'll stop you when...Hello?

Bud Schmidt

We're going to get a new library here.

Barbara Tuchman

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

Alan Greenspan

If I've made myself clear, I've misspoken.

Chris Bauer

Every angle that I looked at was somebody who I admired and was better than me. So it made me very afraid.

Cary Grant

I'd like to have made one of those big splashy Technicolor musicals with Rita Hayworth.

Charles Kuralt

I made friends with a lot of those who could have criticized me in print and who didn't, who praised me instead.

Aidan Chambers

Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

Bernie Mac

Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.

David Tudor

Loudspeakers should be made to be destroyed and... disposable.

Deb Caletti

It was all the things you could never understand and could never possess that made you ache.

C. S. Lewis

you had nothing to say about it and yet made the nothing up into words.

Lee Siegel

The Web critic relies on his or her readers for attentiveness and approval.

Kathryn Stockett

The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel.

Barbara W. Tuchman

I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.

Christina Baker Kline

I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood.

Tobias Wolff

The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story.

Nancy Kress

As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know.

Khaled Hosseini

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

Sarah MacLean

There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as 'Thorn Birds' Fever.