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Lawrence Clark Powell Quotes

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.

Lawrence Clark Powell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: September 6, 1906 - March 14, 2001

Topics

Great Greatness World Library End

With regards to the Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Act, I believe it lacks a balanced approach. It designates 79,000 acres as new wilderness while only opening up 6,000 acres for recreation.

Matt Rosendale

Believe Wilderness New I Believe Up

Constant rotation, based on a 19th century Army model, prevents spouses from putting down roots and gaining meaningful deployment.

Robert Wilkie

Roots Army Down Meaningful Century

What I try to do - I mean 'try,' because you don't get there all the time - is to have impact with content. It's those moments in which you're trying to bring people beyond filmed theater. If I have an ambition, it's that.

Michael Mann

Time People Ambition Impact Moments

Transferring successfully to the next generation means producing work that's as good as or better than the work of the first generation that founded the agency.

Jay Chiat

Work Good Generation Better First

While I was in 'Inadmissible Evidence' at the Donmar, I was mugged at the HSBC ATM on Shaftesbury Avenue. I grabbed one of the men, and when the police arrived, they put both me and him against a wall until they worked out which of us was the criminal.

Douglas Hodge

Men Police Me Wall Him Out

We're not going to pierce everything that we have and paint our faces trying to get a different market. We'll grow with our audience. We're just going to keep doing what we do.

Chris Kirkpatrick

Grow Doing Trying Everything Paint

Success is all about persistence and doing the right thing for the long term.

Bruce Rauner

Success Persistence Doing Long Right

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

Pete Rose

Sports You Ball Square Got Bat

I tried do stand-up, and I was horrible. And I'll never do it again.

Sean Hayes

Never Horrible Again Tried I Tried

The bloodsuckers around Tyson are always looking for one more payday, and some people will always be willing to pay to see Iron Mike fight.

Thomas Hauser

Fight People Looking Will More See

It's not as if I've never been awkward myself. I'm a big gamer, so I've had access to that type of personality. I used to go to these LAN parties; that was before high-speed Internet. The only way you could get lag-free gaming was to haul these huge computers to people's houses.