Museum Libraries Quotes

#1. The present tense of regret is indecision.

Cecil Baldwin

#2. Sex is no longer a serious taboo. Teenagers sometimes know more about it than adults.

Alan Watts

#3. A great snow is the calm death of struggle and the transformative birth of life.

A.D. Posey

#4. It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.

William James

#5. Mrs. Weasley was marching across the yard, scattering chickens, and for a short, plump, kind-faced woman, it was remarkable how much she looked like a saber-toothed tiger.

J.K. Rowling

#6. I think Star City should have Unesco World Heritage status. It will need to be adapted a little bit and made more glamorous than it looks now, but it should definitely be protected for the future.

Valentina Tereshkova

#7. A faith gained in strength only when people were willing to lay down their lives for it.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. I would like to bring people who have never been to a museum into a museum. And I would like to bring museum goers into libraries. I think there ought to be this cross-fertilization.

Susan Vreeland

#9. I attempted in vain to calculate the size of the holdings on the shelves, floor on floor, only to boggle hopelessly, baffled by bibliographic boundlessness.

Richard Fortey

#10. How strange it is to view a town you grew up in, not in wonderment through the eyes of youth, but with the eyes of a historian on the way things were.

Marvin Allan Williams

#11. Cat lovers know that every cat is remarkable.

Gladys Taber

#12. . . . my underlying, not-so-hidden agenda is to help enhance and enrich the encounter of the museum-goer with enduring objects, in a time when we all seem to be assailed by random noise and flickering images.

Esther Green Bierbaum