
„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)
Zdroj: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
— Archibald Macleish American poet and Librarian of Congress 1892 - 1982
"The Premise Of Meaning" in American Scholar (5 June 1972)
— 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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— John Waters American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer 1946
Zdroj: Role Models
— Neamat Imam, kniha The Black Coat
The Black Coat (2013)
— 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.
— Diane Setterfield, kniha The Thirteenth Tale
Zdroj: The Thirteenth Tale
— 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.
— Joyce Carol Oates American author 1938
Zdroj: Wild Nights!: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway
— John Waters American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer 1946
— 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."
— 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.
— Lucille Ball American actress and businesswoman 1911 - 1989
Quoted in Eleanor Harris, The Real Story of Lucille Ball, ch. 1 (1954)
— Joseph Delaney, kniha The Spook's Sacrifice
Zdroj: The Spook's Sacrifice
— 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)
— Joel Osteen American televangelist and author 1963
Zdroj: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
— John Ruysbroeck Flemish mystic 1293 - 1381
The Spiritual Espousals (c. 1340)
— Jean Paul Sartre French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary cri… 1905 - 1980
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr. American writer 1940
Zdroj: The Complete Life's Little Instruction Book
— 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.