Camille White > Camille's Quotes

“A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“He crouched at the car window and looked in. 'What a lovely family you have. What a charming family. They're all lovely. Except for that one.' His finger jabbed the glass. 'That one's a bit ugly.”
― Derek Landy, Death Bringer

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.”
― Dr. Seuss

“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
― Lemony Snicket

“Maybe God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“When people ask me if a god created the universe, I tell them that the question itself makes no sense. Time didn’t exist before the big bang, so there is no time for god to make the universe in. It’s like asking directions to the edge of the earth; The Earth is a sphere; it doesn’t have an edge; so looking for it is a futile exercise. We are each free to believe what we want, and it’s my view that the simplest explanation is; there is no god. No one created our universe,and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization; There is probably no heaven, and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that I am extremely grateful.”
― Stephen Hawking

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.”
― Albert Einstein

“The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man”
― T.S. Eliot

“What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.”
― Harold Howe

“When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society