Encyclopedic Knowledge Quotes

#1. Leonie Barrow knew enough about real criminal investigations to know full well that cases rarely if ever hinged on an encyclopedic knowledge of tobacco ash or the curious incident of the butler's allergy to spinach.

Jonathan L. Howard

#2. It's my job to know what's available from every retailer, catalog, website, antiques mall, and craftsperson. A good designer or decorator has to have an almost encyclopedic knowledge.

Nate Berkus

#3. Sophara scrawled orders on a slate and handed it to one of the libationarians, whose encyclopedic knowledge of the contents and locations of all the bottles kept the bar running.

Scott Lynch

#4. I'm not somebody that has an encyclopedic knowledge of ballads and could sit around a fire and sing songs for three hours. I basically only know the songs that I've taken on and reworked and recorded.

Sam Amidon

#5. I am, in fact, immortal when annoyed.

Mira Grant

#6. The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don't see how our conflicts of interest work on us.

Dan Ariely

#7. I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of feeling less guilty about the universe.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#8. Saudi Arabia has allowed training on its soil of American forces.

Joe Biden

#9. By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization.

Charles Baudelaire

#10. The only thing that I am completely certain of after this experience is that I am no longer afraid of death.

Michael Blain

#11. The question of what is deserved should rarely, if ever, be asked. Asking it leads to deadly judgement, and acts of unmitigated evil. Atrocity revisited in the name of justice breeds its own atrocity.

Steven Erikson

#12. Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.

Edward Abbey