Encyclopedia Quotes

“Sandra L. West and Aberjhani have compiled an encyclopedia that makes an important contribution to our need to know more about one of modern America’s truly significant artistic and cultural movements. It helps us to acknowledge the complexity of African American life at a time when the nation’s culture was taking on a recognizable shape, when race was becoming less of a crushing burden and more of a challenge to progressive people and their ideals, and when cities and their inhabitants symbolized the end of the past and the seductiveness of the new.”

“Will there ever be an encyclopedia? Possibly. I would say two things about the encyclopedia: firstly, I’ve always said and I stand by it, whenever I do do a printed encyclopedia I would like all the proceeds to go to charity. Back in 1998 I never dreamt I personally I would be in the position that I could set up a large charitable foundation and personally do things for charity, and I’ve done other charity books already.”

“Cos if it's encyclopedias we've got enough, like, information... and if it's God, you've got the wrong house.”

“The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.”

“To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows - and I needn't.”

“Who will ever kiss this encyclopedia of a head?”

“The tragedy is that there are many walking encyclopedias who are living failures.”

“If education were the same as information, the encyclopedias would be the greatest sages in the world.”

“He found a set of encyclopedias—like Wikipedia, but paper and very bulky.”

“If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence”