Library Research Quotes

• A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

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  Samuel Johnson

  Book   Writing   Men  

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 6 Apr. 1775)

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• As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system.

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  Anita Diament

  Years   Library Research   Doing Me  

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• I'd best head to the library. Research beckons.

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  Rupert Giles

  Library Research   Library   Research  

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• Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.

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  Roger Ebert

  Reading   Library Research   Rats  

  "Critical Eye". Yahoo! Internet Life, September 1998.

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• If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.

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  Alan Dundes

  Inspirational   Funny   Graduation  

  1125

• Indiana Jones: Archaeology is the search for fact... not truth. If it's truth you're looking for, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right down the hall. ... So forget any ideas you've got about lost cities, exotic travel, and digging up the world. We do not follow maps to buried treasure, and "X" never, ever marks the spot. Seventy percent of all archaeology is done in the library. Research. Reading.

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  Jeffrey Boam

  Philosophy   Reading   Philosophical  

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• But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't just do library research. I very rarely write about somewhere I haven't been.

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  Hari Kunzru

  Writing   Library Research   Pages  

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