Arthur Curley Quotes
When the function of libraries is put in terms of their contributions to the community, people see their centrality. The challenge to us is to continue to help them see it in those terms to describe our larger purposes. We must assert that libraries are central to the quality of life in our society; that libraries have a direct role in preserving democratic freedoms. Free access to information and the opportunity of every individual to improve his or her mind, employment prospects, and lifestyle are fundamental rights in our society.
Quotes to Explore
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I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.
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It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.
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More often than not, I get cast as quite Machiavellian roles - it's something about my face; I'm quite shifty or something!
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I'm never really going to be the normal teenager.
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Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.
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I saw the S.B.A. with just enormous potential, and that's what I told the president - this is really a jewel.
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Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
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Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.
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One reason why upturns follow downturns is that downturns tend to overshoot. People get panicky, they're afraid to stay the course, so they start selling. The other thing is that I think, as entrepreneurs keep on waiting to produce new things, that there's an accumulation of as-yet-unexploited new ideas that keeps mounting up.
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When I talk about the end of apartheid, I prefer not to claim the honor that I have ended it.
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Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.
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In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.
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No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.
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Emily’s chestnut-colored hair was thick and shiny as silk floss-an extraordinary female endowment. But like most female endowments, it was generally more trouble than it was worth.
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When seen as a whole, art derives from a person's desire to communicate himself to another. I do not believe in an art which is not forced into existence by a human being’s desire to open his heart. All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.
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The one continuing problem in my life has always had the shape of just one question: What amusing thing can I do next?
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Our solution on 'The Simpsons' is to do jokes that people who have an education, or some frame of reference, can get. And for the ones who don't, it doesn't matter, because we have Homer banging his head and saying, 'D'oh!'
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The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.
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The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.
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It would be nice if you wouldn't call me an expressionist. I'm really not one.
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When the function of libraries is put in terms of their contributions to the community, people see their centrality. The challenge to us is to continue to help them see it in those terms to describe our larger purposes. We must assert that libraries are central to the quality of life in our society; that libraries have a direct role in preserving democratic freedoms. Free access to information and the opportunity of every individual to improve his or her mind, employment prospects, and lifestyle are fundamental rights in our society.
