Barack Obama Quotes
Libraries have a special role to play in our knowledge economy. Your institutions have been and should be a place where parents and children come to read together and learn together. We should take our kids there more.
Quotes to Explore
-
Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
-
Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
-
What Washington needs is adult supervision.
-
Conformity is dangerous.
-
Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.
-
The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
-
We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
-
It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
-
'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
-
From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
-
If you live a rebellious lifestyle, then you rebel against things because they go against your ideals and the integrity of who you are as a person.
-
As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week.
-
I'm just not into happy-clappy pop. Unless it's happy-clappy pop in a good way.
-
Enjoy every sandwich.
-
New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
-
There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.
-
I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.
-
You can tell when someone is driven by labels. If something is couture, they think it's important and wear it and sometimes make a terrible fashion mistake. People are shocked that I know so little about designers.
-
We have a host of English teachers in the family. My mum is an English teacher, and so are my dad, my aunt and my uncle. I have grown up with family writing competitions, and I can't remember a birthday or Christmas present that didn't include books.
-
Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law but served the state, no history that gave an inkling of how it had been and what had happened. And no love, only egotism, infatuation and lust.
-
And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
-
She is a beautiful creature, but beauty doesn't equal good and it certainly doesn't equal sane.
-
Libraries have a special role to play in our knowledge economy. Your institutions have been and should be a place where parents and children come to read together and learn together. We should take our kids there more.
