Harry Golden Quotes

The library, I believe, is the last of our public institutions to which you can go without credentials. You don't even need the sticker on your windshield that you need to get into the public beach. All you need is the willingness to read.

Harry Golden

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• I moved about 45 minutes from West Hollywood, and I live surrounded by nature and the wilderness, but I constantly find myself walking around, like in the commercial, saying, 'Can you hear me now?'

  

  Olga Fonda
  • Live
  • Nature
  • Myself

• I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Up
  • World
  • Want

• If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Important
  • Doing

• When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer is when I actually start thinking about lines. That's the workhorse part. At that point, I'm being more mathematical about putting the poem on the page and less intuitive about the rhythm of the syntax.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Hand

• I was born Roman, and I'll die Roman. I'll never leave this team or my city.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Team
  • Die
  • City

• I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.

  

  Adam Pascal
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Actor

• Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's education budget. Thousands of teachers have been pulled from classrooms, schools have closed and valuable programs have been canceled. In many places, districts are forced to choose between prekindergarten programs and English, algebra and art.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Art
  • Political
  • Education

• I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Driving
  • More
  • Go

• My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and living hand to mouth. Plus, all my boyfriends were artists struggling to make a living. Having kids didn't make any sense - why would I take on more of a financial burden when I couldn't even afford a dog?

  

  Edie Falco
  • Children
  • Why
  • Kids

• There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Long
  • Beautiful

• Our true nationality is mankind.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • True
  • Mankind
  • Our

• Be it Valentine's Day, Father's Day or Mother's Day, I feel all days are reminders of some feelings. February 14 doesn't hold any special relevance for me.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Day

• No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.

  

  Maimonides
  • Disease
  • Diet
  • Other

• You can only go into science because you're interested in it.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Science
  • You
  • Go

• Winning supporters over can only really be achieved by what you do, not what you say. It's no use just smiling and shaking hands and getting quoted with witty one-liners.

  

  Randy Lerner
  • Winning
  • Hands
  • Witty

• Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Men
  • Women
  • Movie

• My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Help

• I keep hearing about muthafucking Harry Potter. Who is this muthafucker?

  

  Snoop Dogg

• I was always a fan of the great old spaghetti Westerns, the Sergio Leone films. But the one that always sticks with me, that I just thought was brilliant and perfect is "Cat Ballou." Lee Marvin in "Cat Ballou."

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Western
  • Sergio Leone Films
  • Cat Ballou

• I cannot imagine the type of sinister fiend who would be against the library. A library essentially says, 'Look, here is some free information that will enrich your life. Read it on your own time. I trust that you will bring it back when you are finished.' It might be the most civilized, forward-thinking institution in America. Perhaps the only one, in fact.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Life
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I called my family, saying, 'Guess what? I got a new show. It's about a cop who travels in time.' And they said, 'I think we've seen that one.'

  

  Jason O'Mara
  • Time
  • Family

• The library, I believe, is the last of our public institutions to which you can go without credentials. You don't even need the sticker on your windshield that you need to get into the public beach. All you need is the willingness to read.

  

  Harry Golden
  • Library
  • Credentials
  • Public Institutions