S. R. Ranganathan Quotes

Ranganathan's 5 Laws: Books are for use. Books are for all. Every book its reader, or every reader his book. Save the time of the reader. A library is a growing organism.

S. R. Ranganathan

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• You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Movie
  • Parents
  • You

• Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • You
  • Film
  • Risk

• A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.

  

  Yoshiro Mori
  • Future
  • Best
  • Vote

• For me, my writing benefits from my experience.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Me

• It is absolutely unacceptable to think that in the last year of the president's term, that he should stop doing his job, and he won't.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Job
  • Think
  • Stop

• I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Up
  • Children

• All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Bad

• I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Happy

• I know things aren't perfect for women in the U.K. and in America, but there are women in the rest of the world who have it far worse.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • World
  • Women
  • America

• We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • People
  • Think
  • Marriage

• 'Motorcycle Diaries' had the best costumes - that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It's all for the kids.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • Real
  • Kids

• To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Great
  • Hands

• I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • World
  • Hope

• I always said all my life if I wasn't born and they gave me the question I'd say I don't want to be born.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Life
  • Me
  • Question

• The Tower of David is important for Israel's heritage and existence because it is more than a tower, it is a symbol. It is more important than the Azrieli Towers.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Important
  • Israel
  • Heritage

• Well, I'm a professional.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Professional
  • Well

• We can and must turn this page if we are friends and are prepared to look one another in the eye.

  

  Viktor Yushchenko
  • Friends
  • Eye
  • Page

• If you can't be present when the time comes, then you may miss the opportunity.

  

  Lewis Howes
  • Time
  • May
  • Opportunity

• In terms of romantic films, all-time romantic films, I really like 'Gone With the Wind.' And I realize I sound so cliched saying that, but there's something so absolutely romantic about it.

  

  Freida Pinto
  • Time
  • Wind
  • Romantic

• Any great organization can go through sectarian phases.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • Great
  • Organization

• I think, as a writer, sometimes you do worry, 'Am I just writing, or am I putting the burden of African-Americans on my shoulder and carrying it?' But if we just write the stories that we're supposed to write, that's when we have the biggest impact.

  

  Angie Thomas
  • Writing
  • Worry

• Being a very bad daughter, I never really took time to sit down and listen to my mother's story, and she passed away in 2003. I became very guilty and began to spend a lot of time with older people. I listened carefully to their stories.

  

  Mabel Cheung
  • People
  • Time
  • She

• Ranganathan's 5 Laws: Books are for use. Books are for all. Every book its reader, or every reader his book. Save the time of the reader. A library is a growing organism.

  

  S. R. Ranganathan
  • Time
  • Book
  • Growing