Quotes About Encyclopedias

#1. Thank you for your enthusiasm. Earlier today I told another student I was getting new encyclopedias - he asked me how long I'd be in the hospital!

Chris Colfer

#2. That Elvis, man, he is all there is. There ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with him. He wrote the book. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now. There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king.

Bruce Springsteen

#3. Morris tried to keep the books in some sort of order, but they always mixed themselves up. The tragedies needed cheering up and would visit with the comedies. The encyclopedias, weary of facts, would relax with the comic books and fictions. All in all it was an agreeable jumble.

William Joyce

#4. My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office.

Mike Myers

#5. The Internet gives us everything and forces us to filter it not by the workings of culture, but with our own brains. This risks creating six billion separate encyclopedias, which would prevent any common understanding whatsoever.

Umberto Eco

#6. I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.

Charlize Theron

#7. Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has created more. Cathedrals, sonatas, encyclopedias: love of God was not behind them, nor love of life. But the love of man to be worshiped by man.

Tom Rachman

#8. Useful though they are, the vast majority of dictionaries and encyclopedias are poker-faced pieces of work that stick to the facts and present them as soberly - and unstylishly - as possible.

Terry Teachout

#9. I once spent a spent a summer selling encyclopedias door to door.

David Liss

#10. In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.

Edward De Bono

#11. Cos if it's encyclopedias we've got enough, like, information ... and if it's God, you've got the wrong house.

Zadie Smith

#12. So, there I was, tied to an altar made from outdated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed to the dark powers by a cult of evil Librarians.

Brandon Sanderson

#13. Encyclopedias are finished. All encyclopedias combined, including the redoubtable Britannica, have already been surpassed by the exercise in groupthink known as Wikipedia.

James Gleick

#14. People ask me all the time what or who my influences are. To be honest, it would take a decent set of encyclopedias to get them all down. I am here today to let the world know my greatest influence, my secret ingredient, really. What inspires me? That's simple: COFFEE.

Corey Taylor

#15. He found a set of encyclopedias - like Wikipedia, but paper and very bulky.

Michael Grant

#16. Elvis is my religion. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now.

Bruce Springsteen

#17. Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

Bertrand Russell

#18. The tragedy is that there are many walking encyclopedias who are living failures.

Shiv Khera

#19. Encyclopedias don't win wars.

Isaac Asimov

#20. Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there amplified.

Vannevar Bush

#21. Johnny ate encyclopedias like any other kid might eat Red Hots or Lemonheads.

Robert McCammon

#22. Professor Longbottom only assigned us to write about spynuswort because it's one of the three most useful plants in the magical world. If we were to write about every one of its uses, we'd be turning in encyclopedias, you silly boy.

G. Norman Lippert

#23. My first biography was 'Our Golda: The Life of Golda Meir.' To research that book, I bought a 1905 set of encyclopedias. Those books told me what each of the places Golda Meir lived in were like when she lived there.

David A. Adler

#24. The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice.

Richard Bach

#25. It's easier to forgive those who hurt you than those who hurt the people you love.

Regina Brett

#26. When Julian ascended the throne, he declared his impatience to embrace and reward the Syrian sophist, who had preserved, in a degenerate age, the Grecian purity of taste, of manners and of religion. The emperor's prepossession was increased and justified by the discreet pride of his favourite.

Edward Gibbon

#27. I was one of seven, and we took a lot of road trips - long road trips. And this was before iPhones and iPads and DVD players in cars. I remember how novel it was when I got my own Walkman so I could listen to music.

Amy Adams

#28. I can handle Glory."
"Can you?" Eve asked. "Because I notice you never call her Gloriana. Just Glory."
He shut up. Which is probably about the only smart thing he can do, Claire thought.

Rachel Caine

#29. Whether you have a problem in your life or not depends upon your own attitude, your own understanding.

Shunryu Suzuki

#30. We must do what we must to do

Ellen G. White