"Most people don't realize how important librarians are. I ran across a book recently which suggested that the peace and prosperity of a culture was solely related to how many librarians it contained. Possibly a slight overstatement. But a culture that doesn't value its librarians doesn't value ideas and without ideas, well, where are we?"

-- Neil Gaiman

#Book Quotes #Ideas Quotes #People Quotes

“To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate.”
“I don't like making a film and having the actors in character too much in magazines and on the net and everything else. Because you want to keep something back.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“They don't respect us, so let's surprise them, we'll drop the big one, pulverize them.”
“When we apologize we end our struggle with history.”

Source : John Kador (2009). “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust”, p.173, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
“One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.”
“Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.”
“My biggest growth has been sitting with things that are uncomfortable and dealing with them.”
“Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur.”

Source : Oliver Lodge (2012). “Past Years: An Autobiography”, p.306, Cambridge University Press

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