Anti Library Quotes

#1. The novelist Umberto Eco famously kept what the writer Nassim Taleb called an "anti-library," a vast collection of books he had not read, believing that one's personal trove should contain as much of what you don't know as possible. Some

Pamela Paul

#2. It was difficult to hold Broca's brain without wondering whether in some sense Broca was still in there - his wit, his skeptical mien, his abrupt gesticulations when he talked, his quiet and sentimental moments.

Carl Sagan

#3. I like to engage the public because when I was in high school, I had all these questions about anti-matter, higher dimensions and time travel. Every time I went to the library, every time I asked people these questions, I would get some strange looks. Nobody could answer any of these questions.

Michio Kaku

#4. Her right hand held a bottle of Pepsi that she'd clogged with peanuts and called a late lunch.

Daniel Woodrell

#5. I had to paint the picture that I was never scared, otherwise I couldn't do my job. But now, as an actor, I'm literally paid to look emotionally accessible.

Zoe Bell

#6. Leena and Kelly Davidson have always lived a comfortable life. Neither girl has ever held a job nor did they intend to get one. All they wanted was to live off their parents' money for their rest of their lives. What could be better than that?

Valenciya Lyons

#7. Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am.

Henry Louis Gates

#8. A movie of mine is going to be released in Japan next year. I play a waitress who's a really regular girl in this movie. The English title isn't decided yet, but in Japanese it's I'll Get on the A Train Sometime.

Chiaki Kuriyama

#9. Don't always expect good things to happen. Your job is to forgive no matter what happens.

Gary Renard

#10. Magic is used in espionage, all the time, for clandestine things. I've got a whole library from a gentleman who was hired by the CIA to create magic technology for the use of anti-terrorism.

David Copperfield

#11. How do you know when you find the right saddle? You just "feel" it, because your horse is relaxed and willing under you, and your hours in the saddle are less hard work and far more pleasurable. Your saddle feels like a comfortable pair of shoes

Susan E Harris Joyce Harman

#12. The haymaking officially began at the end of July, when the blowballs had formed on the dandelions.

Alda Sigmundsdottir

#13. Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.

Catherine Deneuve