Melvil Dewey Quotes

Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.

Melvil Dewey

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• The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • You
  • Internet
  • Living

• Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Certain

• There's a lot of females that hustle, just like men hustle.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Men
  • Like
  • Hustle

• The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Couple
  • Close
  • West

• I do comedy at a lot of colleges, and at the end of those shows, I take time to be a little more real with audiences. I try to inspire them to follow their dreams. When I was that age, it was incredible to hear stuff like that.

  

  Fortune Feimster
  • Time
  • Real
  • Age

• Shun all vice, especially card playing.

  

  Nathan Hale
  • Playing
  • Vice
  • Shun

• I have no literary fears.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Fears
  • Literary

• Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • Mind
  • Happy
  • Simple

• I started to realize that comedy is what I really wanted to do, but I didn't want to do stand-up.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Up
  • Want
  • Comedy

• The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.

  

  Robert Falcon Scott
  • Human
  • Dog
  • Almost

• Never let anyone out work you or out hustle you. Ever.

  

  Rick Pitino
  • Work
  • Never
  • Hustle

• Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown.

  

  Epictetus
  • Seek
  • Thread
  • Gown

• I got stopped in front of the bras in Victoria's Secret; I get interrogated in airport bathrooms. I went to South Africa in January to see my family, and even there people would stop me and ask, "Sasha, who's A?" Even my grandma.

  

  Sasha Pieterse
  • People
  • Secret
  • Grandma

• When we were on the farm, we were isolated, not just by geography but by the primitive living conditions: no electricity, no running water and, of course, no computer, no phone.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Running
  • Water
  • Electricity

• It was the White Race who produced men like Columbus who crossed the unknown Atlantic; men like Magellan who first circumnavigated the globe; men like Michaelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Bernini, Rubens, Raphael and thousands of other geniuses who created beautiful and exquisite productions in the fields of sculpture and painting; geniuses like Beethoven, Bach, Wagner and Verdi who created beautiful music; men like James Watt who invented the steam engine; men like Daimler who invented and built the reciprocating internal combustion engine; production geniuses like Henry Ford, inventors like Thomas Edison; such a prodigal genius as Nikola Tesla in the field of physics and electricity; literary geniuses like Shakespeare, Goethe and thousands of others, untold geniuses in the fields of mathematics, in the fields of chemistry and physics.

  

  Ben Klassen
  • Mathematics
  • Built
  • Electricity

• How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?

  

  George Eliot
  • People
  • Christian
  • Thoughts

• Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.

  

  Melvil Dewey
  • Electricity
  • Engines
  • Insignificance