"If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future."

#Past Quotes #Voice Quotes #Library Quotes

“A parent can seem very kind and gentle, but as any child knows, as soon as that parent gets stressed, they can suddenly turn and get a bit angry.”
“The #â€Ž zodiac sign on the #â€Ž Ascendant normally tells us much concerning the dharma of the individual - that is, the central potentiality which the person should seek consciously to actualize as a vessel or lens through which the Divine may act.”
“The night was dark, and a cold wind blew, driving the clouds, furiously and fast, before it. There was one black, gloomy mass that seemed to follow him: not hurrying in the wild chase with the others, but lingering sullenly behind, and gliding darkly and stealthily on. He often looked back at this, and, more than once, stopped to let it pass over; but, somehow, when he went forward again, it was still behind him, coming mournfully and slowly up, like a shadowy funeral train.”
“In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.”

Source : "Enjoyment of Music: An Introduction to Perceptive Listening". Book by Joseph Machlis, 1955.
“Sin hath broke the world's sweet peace--unstrung Th' harmonious chords to which the angels sung.”
“One of the glories of doing the book So You Want to Be President? was the shifts in tone, where I was able to be humorous and then very serious. And the impeachment page is certainly the best example of that. I didn't have to think too much about how to present this one. I got the idea right away that a good way of showing the shame of President Nixon would be to put him down in the shadows under the Lincoln Monument, with Lincoln sort of glaring down at him from an elevated, better-lit position.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“As long as humankind recklessly proceeds in the fateful delusion of being biologically fated for triumph, nothing essential will change.”
“The only time I use women in films is when they're naked or dead.”

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