„What is more important in a library than anything else — is the fact that it exists.“
— Archibald Macleish American poet and Librarian of Congress 1892 - 1982
"The Premise Of Meaning" in American Scholar (5 June 1972)
„What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?“
Zdroj: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Poslední aktualizace 22. května 2020. Historie
Italo Calvino2
italský novinář a spisovatel povídek a románů 1923 - 1985Podobné citáty
„Alan Shepard was a great man, a great leader. We were pioneers. If you are an explorer, what more can you ask than to travel into space.“
— Alan Shepard American astronaut 1923 - 1998
Edgar Mitchell — reported in St. Petersburg Times staff (July 23, 1998) "Alan Shepard Jr. 1923-1998 - Space pioneer", St. Petersburg Times, p. 1A.
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„Nothing is more impotent than an unread library.“
— John Waters American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer 1946
Zdroj: Role Models
„No man is more of a stranger to you than you are to him. Receive him with trust.“
— Neamat Imam, kniha The Black Coat
The Black Coat (2013)
„The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.“
— Henrik Ibsen Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet 1828 - 1906
As quoted in The Ibsen Calendar : A Quotation from the Works of Henrik Ibsen for Every Day (1913) by C. A. Arfwedson
Kontext: The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish. The great secret of action and victory is to be capable of living your life without ideals. Such is the sum of the whole world's wisdom.
„What better place to kill time than a library?“
— Diane Setterfield, kniha The Thirteenth Tale
Zdroj: The Thirteenth Tale
„Your life will be good and secure when aliveness will mean more to you than security; love more than money; your freedom more than party line or public opinion“
— Wilhelm Reich, kniha Listen, Little Man!
Listen, Little Man! (1948)
Kontext: You beg for happiness in life, but security is more important to you, even if it costs you your spine or your life. Your life will be good and secure when aliveness will mean more to you than security; love more than money; your freedom more than party line or public opinion; when your thinking will be in harmony with your feelings; when the teachers of your children will be better paid than the politicians; when you will have more respect for the love between man and woman than for a marriage license.
„There is an hour when you realize: here is what you have been given. More than this, you won't receive. And what this is, what your life has come to, will be taken from you. In time.“
— Joyce Carol Oates American author 1938
Zdroj: Wild Nights!: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway
„Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.“
— John Waters American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer 1946
„Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.“
— Anne Herbert (writer) American journalist 1952
"The Next Whole Earth Catalog", (1980), p 331. http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/2001-February/035270.html (Derived from the Gilbert Shelton quote, "Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope."
„No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility.“
— Ernest Hemingway American author and journalist 1899 - 1961
Nobel Prize Speech (1954)
Kontext: No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.
„Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.“
— Lucille Ball American actress and businesswoman 1911 - 1989
Quoted in Eleanor Harris, The Real Story of Lucille Ball, ch. 1 (1954)
„Be less than what you are so that you can become more.“
— Joseph Delaney, kniha The Spook's Sacrifice
Zdroj: The Spook's Sacrifice
„There is more joy in giving than in receiving.“
— Pope Benedict XVI 265th Pope of the Catholic Church 1927
Never doubt the truth of our Lord's promise that whatever we give him of our creativity, our resources, our persons, will come back to us in abundance.
2008, Closing Mass (19 July 2008)
„Don’t simply settle for what your parents had. You can go further than that. You can do more, have more, be more.“
— Joel Osteen American televangelist and author 1963
Zdroj: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
„Spiritual inebriation is this: that a man receives more sensible joy and sweetness than his heart can either contain or desire.“
— John Ruysbroeck Flemish mystic 1293 - 1381
The Spiritual Espousals (c. 1340)
„I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.“
— Jean Paul Sartre French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary cri… 1905 - 1980
„Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in the harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out.“
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr. American writer 1940
Zdroj: The Complete Life's Little Instruction Book
„An idea is a thought. It's a thought that holds more than you think it does when you receive it. But in that first moment there is a spark.“
— David Lynch, kniha Catching the Big Fish
Ideas, p. 23
Catching the Big Fish (2006)
Kontext: An idea is a thought. It's a thought that holds more than you think it does when you receive it. But in that first moment there is a spark. In a comic strip, if someone gets an idea, a lightbulb goes on. It happens in an instant, just as in life.
It would be great if the entire film came all at once. But it comes, for me, in fragments. That first fragment is like the Rosetta stone. It's the piece of the puzzle that indicates the rest. It's a hopeful puzzle piece.
In Blue Velvet, it was red lips, green lawns, and the song — Bobby Vinton's version of "Blue Velvet". The next thing was an ear lying in a field. And that was it.
You fall in love with the first idea, that little tiny piece. And once you've got it, the rest will come in time.