Top 44 Encyclopedia Quotes

I still don’t think I’ve ever read a Nancy Drew book; I probably read three or four ‘Hardy Boys’ books when I was 10, 11, 12, and I didn’t love them at the time. Even then, they felt dated to me, like the word chum – ‘my chum and I.’ However, the ‘Encyclopedia Brown’ books, I read all of them.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

A textbook requires a consistent sense of style and a linear structure, hallmarks of a single authorial presence. An encyclopedia doesn’t.

I actually think I learned to write concisely working for an encyclopedia company in Chicago.

I would say my weakness is the political encyclopedia, but I don’t think it matters that much for what Trump needs.

The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a ‘free beer’ kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way.

People take issue with individual aspects of Wikipedia all the time. But it’s kind of hard to hate the general idea of a free encyclopedia. It’s like hating kittens.

I love working with Scorsese. He’s not only a brilliant director and is great working with actors, but he’s also a walking human film encyclopedia. It’s fun to talk about movies with him.

I have been collecting recipes and information for over 20 years, but three years ago, my editor said to me, ‘You’re a walking encyclopedia of food, so why don’t you do an encyclopedia?’

I really love rap music. I grew up in the ’80s and ’90s with Public Enemy, N.W.A., LL Cool J – I’m a hip-hop encyclopedia. But I got kind of frustrated with the chauvinistic side of rap music, the one that makes it hard to write songs about love and relationships.

Writing an encyclopedia is hard. To do anywhere near a decent job, you have to know a great deal of information about an incredibly wide variety of subjects. Writing so much text is difficult, but doing all the background research seems impossible.

Can life be defined? Well, how would you go about it? Well, of course, you’d go to Encyclopedia Britannica and open at L. No, of course you don’t do that; you put it somewhere in Google. And then you might get something.

What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.

‘Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,’ ‘The Secret of the Old Clock,’ ‘Are You There God, It’s Me, Margaret,’ ‘Flowers in the Attic,’ ‘Gone With the Wind’ – these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn’t alone in the world.

When I hear other people’s stories, I like to believe that they contribute to my ‘Encyclopedia of Human Experience.’ The stories I hear help me expand my definition of what love is, what pain feels like, what sacrifice means, what laughter can do.

Today, I give my daughter what I really didn’t have as a kid: all the silly, dumb, extravagant, frilly, nonfunctional toys I can force on her. She probably wants an encyclopedia.

There’s a vast encyclopedia of fears and phobias, and pretty much any object, experience, situation you can think of, there is someone who has a phobia of it.

I am a movie buff – I even claim I am a Hindi film encyclopedia post 1988(only because that was the year I was born in… haha).

I’m a book guy first, and my education came from two encyclopedias. One was an encyclopedia of health, so I became morbidly obsessed with anatomy, and I thought I had trichinosis, an aneurism, jaundice! And then an encyclopedia of art.

You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It’s like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit the ‘Encyclopedia Africana’ would provide symbolic order to the fragments created over the past 500 years. That is a major contribution.

My job as a DJ and a producer is just to have a big encyclopedia in my head.

I sold a bunch of stuff. I sold Omaha Steaks, vacation packages… the worst, though, was Time Life Books, because no one wants Time Life Books. No one wants an ‘Encyclopedia Brittanica’ showing up at their house.

Possibly the strangest book ever made, the ‘Codex Seraphinianus’ is an encyclopedia of an imaginary world, with illegible calligraphy – it is written in an alphabet no one can understand – and surreal drawings of odd beasts and machines.

I swear to you, any question you can have about moves, psychology, gimmicks, the history of Pro Wrestling, he knows. Lance Storm is an encyclopedia of wrestling knowledge.

The architect who first inspired me to follow this profession was Sir John Soane and his Regency home; well, his three homes, now a museum. The place is like an encyclopedia of paintings, antiquities, furniture, sculptures, and drawings.

If you think of the ideas of open source applied to information in an encyclopedia, you get to Wikipedia – lots and lots of small contributions that bubble up to something that’s meaningful.

When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography – Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Charles Lindbergh, my pantheon of favorite heroes. Then I would write my own things and sew them together and try to make my own book.

Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too.

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

We are always taking a hard look at how life was in the past in coming up with interesting subject matter for our various series, and remembering how much I used to want an encyclopedia as a kid made me realize wanting a set is very unlikely for teens today, and that conversation would be interesting.

Grizzly Bear’s ‘Knife’ is one of the best videos of all time – everything Encyclopedia Pictura has done is really incredible.

People look to ‘Dear White People’ as an encyclopedia of our culture. But it’s also art, and there are characters with different perspectives.

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.

Me, I’m an encyclopedia. I’m not a very smart guy, but I’m an encyclopedia. You can ask me about anything you want. Probably I have the book; probably I have a first edition.

When my generation grew up, our only sources of knowledge were books, teachers, parents and friends. The encyclopedia was an item of luxury. We faced big limits in what we could learn, where we could be and who we could reach.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‘Calculus for the Practical Man.’ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

As a pure source of reference, ‘Modernist Cuisine’ is incredibly helpful. It’s like a modern-day encyclopedia, except for a single subject. It’s not always the answer, but it’s always a starting point. I feel honored to have been able to contribute to it.

The Umbrella Movement can be described as an encyclopedia. Politicians and student leaders wrote it, and let the masses read it and react passively.

I’m not a walking encyclopedia. I’m not one of those types that knows every single film ever made or can recite every dialog.

When I was a kid, what captivated me about detective fiction were the puzzles more than the detectives or their enemies. And as I’ve gotten older, I see a lot of merit in setting your investigative sights higher than figuring out how someone stole Encyclopedia Brown’s bicycle.

I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

You look into an encyclopedia and ask what fighter can do any type of martial art at a high-caliber level, my picture will show up.

Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia.

I’m reading today because of ‘Encyclopedia Brown.’