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

• When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Free
  • Education
  • Educate

• 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've been really fortunate that I've been at a lot of critical crossroads in my musical journey. When I look back, there are some pretty interesting things to look at.

  

  Robbie Robertson
  • Interesting
  • Things
  • Fortunate

• The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Performing
  • Relative
  • Duties

• 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