Makala Quotes

#1. Jeffrey Makala, the friendly and astute rare-books and special collections librarian who will be my guide, confirms my opinion that librarians, along with independent-bookstore owners and dedicated middle- and high-school teachers, are the most selfless guardians of literature on earth.

Maureen Corrigan

#2. Tell them to send everything that can fly.

Richard M. Nixon

#3. Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.

Anne Sullivan

#4. Falling in love with somebody is like a rush of heroin, and trying to break up with somebodyis like trying to kick heroin.

Matt Skiba

#5. Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position.

Claudius Claudianus

#6. But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science.

A.J. Ayer

#7. ...life is a river

Isabel Miller

#8. I always knew I wanted to be somebody. I think that's where it begins. People decide, "I want to be somebody. I want to make a contribution. I want to leave my mark here." Then different factors contribute to how you will do that.

Faith Ringgold

#9. There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, 'Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth.'

Douglas Adams

#10. If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?

Edgar Allan Poe

#11. the most unlikely people can become saviours in dark times, and the small kindnesses they offer can matter like life and death.

Emma Garcia