Quotes About The Dewey Decimal System

#1. Part of my job is to help other kids find books, because not everyone has a keenly organized mind. Some kids could wander the library for hours and still have no idea how to find anything. For them, the Dewey Decimal System might as well be advanced calculus.

Neal Shusterman

#2. But the player librarians all over the country were raving about most was Marjory Muldauer from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. A gangly seventh grader, a foot taller than any of her competitors, Marjory Muldauer had memorized the ten categories of the Dewey decimal system before she entered preschool.

Chris Grabenstein

#3. The Dewey decimal system really works. So that's all I needed to know. Elementary school taught me that.

Michelle Rodriguez

#4. He wished he was with his mom in her library, where everything was safe and numbered and organized by the Dewey decimal system. Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for, like the meaning of your dream, or your dad.

Brian Selznick

#5. Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for.

Brian Selznick

#6. For a long time, we have known that sometimes it serves you best simply to work around an obstacle, to make invisible what you are tired of seeing or don't understand.

Elizabeth Berg

#7. Holding her great breast in both hands as if she were holding a pudding, Mrs. Otterley rushed out.

Marion Chesney

#8. One reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.

Aldous Huxley

#9. Take your hands off my sentences, asshole. I sweat blood for that shit.

Scott Adlerberg

#10. Of the Sturges family, much more is known than is available about poor Irish immigrants and obscure Scottish-English settlers around Rochester.

Preston Sturges

#11. I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation.

Ann Curry

#12. When I was asked to do a song from 'In the Heights' at the White House in 2009, I chose instead to do 'Alexander Hamilton' because I felt like I was meeting a moment.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#13. I was falling hard for Laura. I was not much of a cat person, but I knew our relationship was solid when I bonded with her black-and-white shorthair, Dewey, named for the decimal system.

George W. Bush

#14. Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.

Bertrand Russell

#15. The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly
that and only that, is tragedy.

Edith Hamilton

#16. I sing in full voice in the car and have a tendency to harmonize badly.

Brad Goreski

#17. I'm very interested in tea. I wouldn't mind being involved in some aspect of the tea industry.

Alexander McCall Smith

#18. What I teach the people many times is that attitude and attention will determine the whole course of our lives. Get rid of fear and that is all you ever have to get rid of. Fear of anything at all.

Norval Morrisseau