The Curious Type's favorite quotes

"If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies."
— Jon Stewart

"Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it."
— Mark Twain

tags: censorship, food

"There are two kinds of people in the world: the kind who alphabetize their record collections, and the kind who don't."
— Sarah Vowell (The Partly Cloudy Patriot)

4 people liked it

"Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest, but who has the right information. Because even as we're the most religious of people, America's innovative genius has always been preserved because we also have a deep faith in facts."
— Barack Obama

tags: 2005, american, annual, association, conference, june, library

1 person liked it

"Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth."
— Charles A. Dana

1 person liked it

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship

7,251 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter

17,866 people liked it

"Laughter is carbonated holiness."
— Anne Lamott

35 people liked it

"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question."
— Albert Camus (The Fall)

tags: romance

133 people liked it

"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: brave, inspirational

100 people liked it

"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."
— Frank Zappa

1 person liked it

"A good library will never be too neat or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

tags: libraries, reading

435 people liked it

"Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him."
— Maya Angelou

tags: books, inspirational, library

212 people liked it

"There is something almost sacred about a great library because it represents the preservation of the wisdom, the learning, and the pondering of men and women of all the ages, accumulated under one roof."
— Gordon B. Hinckley (Standing Something Cd: Ten Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts And Homes)

40 people liked it

"In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim."
— Linton Weeks

tags: librarians, libraries, post, washington

29 people liked it

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
— Maya Angelou

tags: inspirational, stories, writing

2,640 people liked it

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: hmmm

218 people liked it

"Good books don't give up all their secrets at once."
— Stephen King

tags: books

469 people liked it

"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent."
— Stephen King

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