Quotes About Library Of Alexandria

#1. The opportunity before all of us is living up to the dream of the Library of Alexandria and then taking it a step further - universal access to all knowledge. Interestingly, it is now technically doable

Brewster Kahle

#2. THOMASINA:
But then the Egyptian noodle made carnal embrace with the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a fine for all that is overdue!

Tom Stoppard

#3. The Library of Alexandria?" I ask. "Didn't that burn down?"
Mrs Philipoulus scoffs. "Damn fool Hypatia. Athena tried to convince her to install a sprinkler system. But no-o-o, no one was going to tell the librarianatrix how to run her library.

Tera Lynn Childs

#4. I'm up for the Julius Caesar Author of the Year Award this year. I'm tremendously proud, considering Caesar is the guy who burned down the Library of Alexandria.

Jarod Kintz

#5. When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the alphabet according to that tradition, then that makes certain expressions of modernity, even of interventions on the textual level, possible.

Alexander Kluge

#6. I love you," Kenneth said, with terrible dispassion, "but I would not burn the Library of Alexandria for you"; and Anita, drily sobbing, cried, "You son of a bitch.

Jincy Willett

#7. When I left the West Coast I was a liberal. When I landed in New York I was a revolutionary.

Jane Fonda

#8. Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence.

Robert Smithson

#9. Pain. Unspeakable pain. It didn't matter who in this world or any other was staring at me, watching me, seeking to share this moment or merely shuddering as I experienced it. Just didn't matter. Because in pain like this one is always alone.

Anne Rice

#10. The destruction of Dan's Star Wars collectibles would have been mourned with more intensity by their owner than the burning of the library at Alexandria.

Adam Nevill

#11. Ask for help. Receiving is an act of generosity.

Cheryl Richardson

#12. Perhaps the various burnings of the Alexandria Library were necessary, like those Australian Forest Fires without which the new seeds cannot burst their shells and make a young, healthy forest.

William Golding

#13. The future of the airlines lay in hauling people, not in hauling mail for the government.

C. R. Smith

#14. But only at Antquarium did I feel a sense of what the library at Alexandria might have been: an accumulation of evidence and suggestions.

Amy Halloran

#15. In the year 415, the woman scientist Hypatia, head of the legendary Alexandria library, was beaten to death by Christian monks who considered her a pagan. The leader of the monks, Cyril, was canonized a saint.

James A. Haught

#16. Have your dream ... What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)

Haruki Murakami

#17. The moon seems to shine back at her the increased need of intimacy, of secrecy and seclusion the war has made everyone feel.

Glenn Haybittle

#18. even now, the building raised a conflicting set of emotions in her: memories of pain and loss, but also of healing and discovery.

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#19. At my core, the glass isn't half-empty - it's not even what I ordered in the first place.

Catherine Tate

#20. Now we can travel with more books stored in our telephones than the ancient Egyptians kept in their vast library at Alexandria.

Mike Aquilina

#21. Rooting in work is crucial to any accomplishment. Rooting in mere enthusiasm will in the long run force illusory measures to keep the fires of empty enthusiasm going. And this makes politics and politicians.

Wilhelm Reich

#22. How DARE you and the rest of your barbarians set fire to my library? Play conqueror all you want, Mighty Caesar! Rape, murder, pillage thousands, even millions of human beings! But neither you nor any other barbarian has the right to destroy one human thought!

William Shakespeare