"What I try to do - and I think this is the former librarian in me - is to get primary source material."

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Source : "Theresa Breslin: bringing the past to life". Interview with Michelle Pauli, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2010.

Theresa Breslin

#Thinking Quotes #Trying Quotes #Librarian Quotes

“It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.”
“I have made decisions based from purely an actor's point of view.”
“No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.”

Source : Otto Weininger (1906). “Sex & Character”, p.236, Рипол Классик
“Commas, like nuns, often travel in pairs.”

Source : Mary Norris (2015). “Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen”, p.86, W. W. Norton & Company
“Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this mission. No committee decides who may enter, no crisis of body or spirit must accompany the entrant. No tuition is charged, no oath sworn, no visa demanded. Of the monuments humans build for themselves, very few say - touch me, use me, my hush is not indifference, my space is not barrier. If I inspire awe, it is because I am in awe of you and the possibilities that dwell in you.”
“Music has shaped menâ€™s fashion and transposed in a playful and witty manner its riding or military heritage. It is difficult to figure out who leads but music and fashion are connected genetically.”
“It's important for the progressive youth to remember that the agenda you set today is the agenda that will matter tomorrow. If you are engaged and active, it means you are one of the lucky ones and you are awake. Most people are not there yet.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“And while you and the rest of your kind are battling together-year after year-for this special privilege of being 'bored to death,' the 'real girl' that you're asking about, the marvelous girl, the girl with the big, beautiful, unspoken thoughts in her head, the girl with the big, brave, undone deeds in her heart, the girl that stories are made of, the girl whom you call 'improbable'-is moping off alone in some dark, cold corner-or sitting forlornly partnerless against the bleak wall of the ballroom-or hiding shyly up in the dressing-room-waiting to be discovered!”

Source : Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2012). “Little Eve Edgarton”, p.9, The Floating Press

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