Top 1200 School Library Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going

I want all my stuff to be converted into digital format so I can have my reference library to carry with me wherever I go.

They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind.

A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.

Questioners sooner or later end up in a library... And answers are dangerous; they kill your wonder.

Then I started checking out blues albums from the library and playing the harp along with them.

You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school.

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.

In high school, I was selected for NASA's Math & Science program. I'd hop on the yellow school bus and head up to Cape Canaveral.

I was very quiet until I got at the piano, and weekends, lunch breaks, after school, before school, I was just making music.

Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.

I don't really generate material specifically for the Kingsway Music Library. It's just a product of the way I work.

I started acting when I was young, and I didn't go to drama school. It was always something that I did alongside going to school and being a normal person.

I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.

Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing.

I remember that children in my class would hate the English club, whereas I was always found in the library.

I don't think college is for everyone. School is awesome, but for me, I was learning a lot more outside the classroom in the real world than I was in school.

My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.

The business changes, and we don't all have to like the change, but it's, ultimately, the business is changed. But, that being said, I don't like it, and I'll tell you why. Because without the new school that we have right now, or without old school, there would be none of this new school, so it started somewhere, right?

My house is like a manga library in many ways, and it's great because I get to call it research.

I get an awful lot of people coming up and saying they went to school with me. There must have been 80,000 pupils at that school!

Number one in high school, when I was sort of entrenched in the street life, if you will, the major thing that kept me plugged in the mainstream was athletics. I played basketball throughout high school. I also played football, but I played basketball throughout high school.

The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired.

I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

I started doing a Ph.D., and then I thought, 'I don't really want to spend all this time on my own in the library.'

I used to hate to go to school, because when it was Friday afternoon and everybody was finished school, I knew I was going to work Saturday and Sunday.

In 2009, the American Library Association recorded 460 challenges reported to the Office of Intellectual Freedom.

When I was young, my parents had a library in our living room. I was always free to browse and read.

Providing jobs at three flat factories in Malawi to make school desks for kids who have never seen desks, and providing scholarships for girls to go to high school who would never otherwise be able to go to high school, is by far the most important work I do.

When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.

Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'

Every time I'd ever stepped on a basketball court, AAU, middle school, high school, I always thought about the NBA.

I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library.

Rediscovery in the library may be a more difficult and uncertain process than the first discovery in the laboratory.

Elite private-school educations leave students unprepared for a standardized test with which their public school counterparts are innately familiar.

Personally - I also continued my education while I was coaching, attending night school and summer school, taking correspondence courses, etc.

I'm not a film-school guy. I was a high-school dropout. I was on a nuclear submarine. I was an electrician. I was a house painter. So if you get in my face, I'm going to fight you.

I was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and I moved to Anderson, Indiana, in 2003 to go to school. I finished high school in America, then I went to college.

Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.

I went to high school every single day in an all-male Jesuit school at McQuaid with short hair, no beard, suit jacket, tie.

I spent my entire childhood in the same town, in Kent. I went to grade school there. There was a boarding school that my mother taught at, called - appropriately enough - Kent School, that I went to. Yeah, pretty much my entire childhood was spent in that town.

Once I started the first school, I realized this is what my life is meant to be, is to promote education and help kids go to school, and that's very clear.

But with the library, it's like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there's so much to look at and read.

One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'.

The library helps lower- and middle-income people - immigrants - get their shot at the American dream.

To sit in a big library amongst books and students, that was pretty cool. It was a novel experience for me.

When I was younger I was always big; I was a fat boy at school. I had an early growth spurt, and when I went to secondary school I was tall enough to be a policeman.

I was Santa Claus in first year of primary school, our elementarys school play, because I had most panache, that was probably why. I was 5.

I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library.

I have been a goof my whole life. I wasn't really the popular girl in school and didn't have any boyfriends in high school because I was a nerd. I was a geek.

My high school was in the private school league, and we played all our games at the college stadium. It wasn't like we filled it, but we got a good crowd.

I went to an ordinary primary school, and then I started performing in a show called 'Billy Elliot' on the West End, and that was sort of my drama school.

A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection.

When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going.

Just be a cool grandpa who's creative, and hang out and tell stories and read a book in the library.

That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

Once I started the first school, I realized this is what my life is meant to be, is to promote education and help kids go to school and that's very clear.

I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.

By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.