Encyclopedia Britannica Quotes

#1. Can life be defined? Well, how would you go about it? Well, of course, you'd go to Encyclopedia Britannica and open at L. No, of course you don't do that; you put it somewhere in Google. And then you might get something.

Chris Adami

#2. It is one thing to speak of embracing the new, the fresh, the strange. It is another to feel that one is an insect, crawling across a page of the Encyclopedia Britannica, knowing only that something vast is passing by beneath, all without your sensing more than a yawning vacancy.

Gregory Benford

#3. When I was about ten my favourite article in the huge and mouldering Encyclopedia Britannica we owned (the ninth edition) was the one on Lycanthropy. (Yes, I had a favourite 1890s Britannica article when I was ten. I am now aware this is not entirely usual.)

Neil Gaiman

#4. There is enough information capacity in a single human cell to store the Encyclopedia Britannica, all 30 volumes of it, three or four times over.

Richard Dawkins

#5. The Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th edition, devotes 20,000 words to the person of Jesus Christ and never once hints that He didn't exist.

John Ankerberg

#6. If I had followed the multitude, I should not have studied philosophy.

Chrysippus

#7. If we let the men talk about them and decide them, then suddenly we wake up and find out that the men have made all the decisions, and these decisions all suit men.

Alexander McCall Smith

#8. I am suing Lord Beaverbrook for libel and hope for some lovely tax-free money in damages. He has very conveniently told some lies about me.

Evelyn Waugh

#9. Am I in the picture? Am I getting in or out of it? I could be a ghost, an animal or a dead body, not just this girl standing on the corner ... ?

Francesca Woodman

#10. Sometimes I scare myself at how easily I slip inside my mind and live vicariously through these characters.

Teresa Mummert

#11. Rereading a favorite novel first read 5, 10, or 20 years ago, is a measure of our travel, how far we've come; it's a way of visiting an earlier self.

Lewis Buzbee

#12. Scholars don't usually sit gasping and sobbing in corners of the library stacks.
But they should. They should.

Joanna Russ

#13. When you have been to the lowest part of your life, you have no choice but to sit back and just think about things. You just pay attention to so much more.

La'el Collins

#14. I mean, the people who run Guantanamo, the military, pretty much dismiss complaints by the detainees because they say that they're all created as part of a political process to sort of fake complaints and get public support.

Jane Mayer

#15. I felt him on a different level. I shied away from saying a soul-deep level even though that's what I suspected. His energy charged mine. Kind of like a battery being plugged in. It was impossible not to feel his presence.

Cambria Hebert

#16. A good comedy's very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.

Colm Meaney

#17. We must not close our eyes to the fact that there are conspiring men who would pollute young boys, and girls of corresponding age, for sake of increasing profits.

David O. McKay

#18. Not the intense moment
Isolated, with no before and after,
But a lifetime burning in every moment.

T. S. Eliot

#19. Repulsion masks attraction

Joe Hill

#20. I have made many mistakes and done a lot of foolish things, but when I look back on the person I was, I feel affection for him and laugh at him.

Thomas Moore