Quotes About Community

There's nothing stronger than the heart of a volunteer.

My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.

I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. We're doing that of course, and having a lot of fun doing it, but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way.

One piece of log creates a small fire, adequate to warm you up, add just a few more pieces to blast an immense bonfire, large enough to warm up your entire circle of friends; needless to say that individuality counts but team work dynamites.

Fiction, when it's done right, does in the daylight what dreams do at night: we leave the confines of our own experiences and go to common ground, where for a time we are not alone Where we don't have to ask how it feels, because we feel it for ourselves." 

Fiction, when it's done right, does in the daylight what dreams do at night: we leave the confines of our own experiences and go to common ground, where for a time we are not alone.

I have a feeling you need a good, old fashioned, whine and jeeze party. Now, tell me everything.

I don't think I'll ever feel as famous or as popular as I felt when I was a 17-year-old soccer player in Modle. Only about 20 000 people live there and 12 000 of them come to every game. Running onto the pitch each week was just the most fantastic feeling. Nothing can beat that.

Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.

I'll belong to libraries wherever I go. Maybe eventually I'll belong to libraries on other planets.

Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.

It's wrong for libraries to have limited budgets.

It's lovely when writers I like like each other.

One thing I have learned about grief," I said to her, "is that nothing anyone says to you is useful, but it can still be comforting sometimes to know you're not alone

This school is enough to make anyone a communist.

Piero is only twenty years old, but is married already to a Roman aristocrat, an Orsini like his mother. People say he thought himself too good for Florence. When you think you are too good to marry your neighbors, you start expecting them to be your servants.

Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization. Libraries

Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilisation. Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.

A ceia indo principiando, somente falei também de sérios assuntos, que eram a política e os negócios da lavoura e cria. Só faltava lá uma boa cerveja e alguém com jornal na mão, para alto se ler e a respeito disso tudo se falar.

Naquele lugar existia uma mulher, por nome Maria Mutema, pessoa igual às outras, sem nenhuma diversidade.

Everyone was eating, talking softly, glancing at me, hugging me, eating. It was as if someone had turned the volume down. Everything looked normal, but the sound was muted. Death did this, set all this weirdness in motion, made people appear out of nowhere carrying casseroles, saying 'I'm sorry' over and over, death muffled their voices.

The important thing is to share what you know. Be generative and pass it on. This is what makes all the difference.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.