Melvil Dewey Quotes
Our great function is to inform or to inspire, or to please; to give to the public in the quickest and cheapest way information, inspiration, and recreation on the highest plane. If a better way than the books is found we should use it.
Melvil Dewey
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Acting is my number one, but dancing will always be a part of who I am and in my heart. I love doing stunts when they are a part of my acting.
Caity Lotz
I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
Rachel Sklar
It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.
Edmund White
I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Sometimes my arm wants to throw a hard fastball, but my brain doesn't want to throw it that hard.
Zack Greinke
When you're young, with less on the line, it's easier to be audacious, to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation - politics, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, etc. - to the comics page, which for many years caused a rolling furor.
Garry Trudeau
My parents were in 'Brigadoon' on Broadway when I was a couple of years old.
Laura Benanti
What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world.
Ben Carson
I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers.
Jimmy Swaggart
I've been taking martial arts for a long time. I started with tae kwon do, and then I started taking karate and mixed martial arts.
Daniella Alonso
I always wanted to win. Everyone has a bit of that in them, but I have even more of a will to win. Sometimes I might go overboard, whereas there are others who, yes, they want to win, but if they don't, it's no big deal for them.
Diego Costa
The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life.
Charles Eames
The temptation to believe that the Universe is the product of some sort of design, a manifestation of subtle aesthetic and mathematical judgment, is overwhelming. The belief that there is "something behind it all" is one that I personally share with, I suspect, a majority of physicists.
Paul Davies
Conor McGregor has been a tremendous inspiration to me.
Jon Jones
We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.
Oscar de la Renta
An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they're already doing in their lives done better.
Clayton Christensen
...success part of story of fifty years of Independence … Maintaining and strengthening political democracy at various levels has moved to new levels. Conducting successive free and fair elections, evolving and developing institutions like a relatively independent press, functioning opposition parties offering role choice, an independent and high calibre judiciary, free public debate which sometimes comes under assault, defying freedom of expression and creativity and secularism as the basic feature of our constitutional and social well being.
K. R. Narayanan
Our great function is to inform or to inspire, or to please; to give to the public in the quickest and cheapest way information, inspiration, and recreation on the highest plane. If a better way than the books is found we should use it.
Melvil Dewey
