Encyclopaedic Quotes

#1. I don't have any particular wish to be polemical or didactic; I don't have a 'message', but what I do thoroughly enjoy are those works of art, not necessarily in the cinema, but in the other arts as well, which have an encyclopaedic world.

Peter Greenaway

#2. I am encyclopaedic on World War II. My dad took me to D-Day beaches when I was a kid. I was there four years ago - every five years they have a remembrance on D-Day beaches and I would have liked to have been there and done my bit.

Eddie Izzard

#3. A smattering of everything is worth little. It is a fallacy to suppose that an encyclopaedic knowledge is desirable. The mind is made strong, not through much learning, but by the thorough possession of something.

Louis Agassiz

#4. We're a team. It's part of our job to help each other out, and to forgive each other quickly. Otherwise, we'd never get anything done.

Jeramey Kraatz

#5. One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.

Paulo Freire

#6. I am tired of hustling.

Alan Sugar

#7. The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.

Jarvis Cocker

#8. He was my favorite senator ... I love him. He made the liberals squeal.

Robert Novak

#9. It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

Mike Tyson

#10. The only thing that weakens worry is work, so I will be working for Marie Corfield

Cory Booker

#11. Happiness is realized only in the face of unhappiness

Jean Sasson

#12. Amazing that you can get a cappuccino at a gas station in L.A. at four in the morning and you can't buy a stamp at the post office in Sofia.

Annie Ward