Alexandrian Library Quotes

#1. A few books well chosen, and well made use of will be more profitable than a great confused Alexandrian library.

Thomas Fuller

#2. When that happens - when risk is taken and the filmmakers dive into the subject matter without a parachute - very often what you get it something with those qualities that make it age well with the public.

Francis Ford Coppola

#3. There was no black or white. Someone who had been good her entire life could, in fact, do something evil. People were just as capable of committing murder, under the right circumstances, as any monster.

Jodi Picoult

#4. Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.

C.S. Lewis

#5. This is the psychosis of being a human being - the things that we deal with on a day-to-day basis that make us who we are and that sometimes we have to get on the couch and talk out.

Nate Parker

#6. The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.

Gary Wolf

#7. The freezing rain sifts down, handfuls of shining rice thrown by some unseen celebrant. Wherever it hits, it crystallizes into a granulated coating of ice.

Margaret Atwood

#8. Parents don't have the luxury of being reasonable, not any more than a religious person does. What can make religious people and parents so utterly insufferable is also what makes religion and Parenthood so utterly beautiful: the All or nothing wager. The Faith.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#9. No. Not you. But if you're bothered, remind me when I get back - we can talk about your initiation. I like the idea of you kneeling at my feet.

Ellen Connor

#10. If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.

Manny Pacquiao

#11. We've drifted into this presentation mode without realizing the cost to the content and the audience in the process.

Edward Tufte

#12. The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind.
(Marco)

Iain Pears

#13. Why settle for the art world when you can have the whole world?

Martin Firrell