Vartan Gregorian Famous Quotes
The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer.
"It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour."
"Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. ... the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity."
Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.
Vartan Gregorian Quotations
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Robert Louis Stephenson
"Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy."
Kahlil Gibran
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
Jonathan Swift
"Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote."
Edward Young
"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."
Jean Jacques Rousseau
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
Mary Bertone
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
Clifton Paul Fadiman
"The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted."
Martha Graham
"People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes what they want is to see you fall."
Leonardo DiCaprio