Nancy Pearl Quotes

I just said, 'Well, the real people performing miracles every day are librarians,' and we all laughed ourselves off our chairs.

Nancy Pearl

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• There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Nothing
  • Now
  • Without

• Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?

  

  Kate Millett
  • Place
  • Privacy
  • Keeping

• Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.

  

  Sam Ewing
  • Remember
  • Parents
  • Wonder

• At the end of the day, I want the music industry to be larger than what it is today.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • Music
  • Today
  • Day

• We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.

  

  Quintilian
  • Writing
  • Impossible
  • Simplicity

• The story ends up being a journey of self-discovery.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • Up
  • Journey
  • Story

• Since when has obedience to Christ and His Gospel become optional to Christianity?

  

  K. P. Yohannan

• If a man doesn't want you at your worst, then he sure as hell doesn't deserve you at your best.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Want
  • Man
  • Worst

• Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Read
  • Nonsense
  • Impunity

• Most people who are on the road are pretty damaged. It's an escapist's life. It's not a life that forces you to look in the mirror at where you're at and what you're doing. It's one where you leave the mirror behind. I think that appeals to something in all of us. On the open road, all of your regrets are out the window.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Regret

• This love of ours, in so far as it is a love for one particular creature, is not perhaps a very real thing, since, though associations of pleasant or painful musings can attach it for a time to a woman to the extent of making us believe that it has been inspired by her in a logically necessary way, if on the other hand we detach ourselves deliberately or unconsciously from those associations, this love, as though it were in fact spontaneous and sprang from ourselves alone, will revive in order to bestow itself on another woman.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Love

• I am much perturbed by this business of sickness. Our bodies seem so easily to leap into the saddle where our minds should be. People who are ill become changelings.

  

  Winifred Holtby
  • Business
  • Sickness
  • Changeling

• Look for an occupation that you like, and you will not need to labor for a single day in your life.

  

  Confucius
  • Life
  • Labor
  • Occupation

• Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Nature
  • Like
  • Emotional

• I told the waiter I was looking for a hotel whose name I didn't know on a street whose name I didn't know and could he help me; we both laughed and he said: Aren't we all.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Laughed
  • Waiter
  • Help Me

• 'When you were little, what inspired you to feel this way?'" Then he paused and asked, "Looking in the mirror and having it crack in two?" Instead of clobbering him, I laughed-the kind of laugh that escapes into the air before you can catch it. The kind of chuckle that shows a tiny form of acceptance. Trevor obviously didn't expect me to find his remark entertaining. He was primed for a fight. We both cracked up and locked eyes. His gaze lingered a little too long, not in a creepy way, but in a way that says I'm not ready to let this moment go.

  

  Ellen Schreiber
  • Eyes
  • Fight
  • Mirror

• I just said, 'Well, the real people performing miracles every day are librarians,' and we all laughed ourselves off our chairs.

  

  Nancy Pearl
  • Performing
  • Laughed
  • Chairs