//Quotes for random quotes. var quote = new Array(); // quote[0] = '"Hwæt!"
— Beowulf'; // quote[2] = '"Water gives life to the ten thousand things."
— Laozi, Dao De Jing'; // quote[4] = '"I cannot live without books."
— Thomas Jefferson'; // quote[5] = '"Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety."
— Borges, "The Theologians"'; // quote[6] = '"And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche"
— Chaucer'; // quote[7] = '"\'Twas brillig and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe"
— Lewis Carroll'; // quote[8] = '"Banish plump Jack and banish all the world!"
— Shakespeare'; // quote[9] = '"What\'s Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba, that he should weep for her?"
— Shakespeare'; // quote[10] = '"Write me a few of your lines"
— Mississippi Fred McDowell'; // quote[11] = '"You might say that, but I couldn\'t possibly comment."
— Francis Urquhart'; // quote[12] = '"Remember, I will defend to the death my inanity."
— David Teeter, Aug. 24, 2000'; // quote[13] = '"On the Internet, nobody knows you\'re a dog."
— New Yorker cartoon, July 5, 1993.'; // quote[14] = '"Let your life proceed by its own design."
— Barlow and Weir, "Cassidy"'; // quote[16] = '"The Dude abides."
— Ethan and Joel Coen, "The Big Lebowski"'; // quote[18] = '"Network: Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections."
— Samuel Johnson, Dictionary, 1755'; // quote[20] = '"There is no Messiah and You\'re It"
— book title'; // quote[21] = '"Enjoy every sandwich"
— Warren Zevon (1947-2003)'; // quote[23] = '"No matter that you have a PhD and have read all of Henry James twice. If you still persist in writing, \'Good food at it\'s best\', you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave."
— Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves'; // quote[24] = '"I always turn to the sports page first…. They record people\’s accomplishments; the front page, nothing but man\’s failure."
— Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Earl Warren'; quote[0] = '"[A]n occupation of Iraq ... would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. ... Under those circumstances, there was no viable \'exit strategy\' we could see, violating another of our principles. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land."
— President George H. W. Bush, A World Transformed (1998), p. 489'; quote[1] = '"The pundits, the pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States; Red States for Republicans, Blue States for Democrats. But I\'ve got news for them, too. We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don\'t like federal agents poking around in our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and yes, we\'ve got some gay friends in the Red States. There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America."
— Future President Barack Obama, Jul. 26, 2004'; quote[2] = '"All of the dreams I have in which we are successful are dreams in which we succeed in reducing the Yankees to a more appropriate stature in life."
— Baseball analyst Bill James, in the New Yorker, July 14/21, 2003'; quote[3] = '"The true mainstream is made, not of oil, but of writers and readers, musicians and composers, editors and publishers, bookstores and libraries and universities, and all the institutions that support them."
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "If you don\'t like the culture, go out and make your own", San Francisco Chronicle, Dec. 11, 2005'; quote[4] = '"This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through radioactive materials and a steady increase in carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels."
— President Lyndon Johnson, Special Message to the Congress on Conservation and Restoration of Natural Beauty, Feb. 8, 1965'; quote[5] = '"As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion ..."
— Treaty of Tripoli (1796)'; quote[6] = '" \'I know that having a good vocabulary doesn\'t guarantee that I\'m a good person,\' the boy said. \'But it does mean I\'ve read a great deal. And in my experience, well-read people are less likely to be evil.\' "
— Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope'; quote[7] = '"I can\'t have information I know would be of interest to someone and not share it."
— Sanford Berman, activist librarian'; quote[8] = '"Ripeness is all."
— Shakespeare'; quote[9] = '"I have sometimes dreamt, at least, that when the Day of Judgment dawns ... the Almighty will turn to Peter and will say, not without a certain envy when He sees us coming with our books under our arms, `Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them here. They have loved reading\'."
— Virginia Woolf, "How Should One Read a Book?"'; quote[10] = '"The best thing for me about the Internet is that if you are a freaky person with fringe interests you can find someone else to share those interests with."
— Jessamyn West of Librarian.net'; quote[11] = '"I know you have all gone to a lot of trouble to meddle in my affairs. But you cannot change my mind with one night of blasphemy and store-bought tandoori."
— Manjula of The Simpsons'; quote[12] = '"As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air — however slight — lest we become unwitting victims of darkness."
— Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas'; quote[13] = '"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die."
— Senator Edward Kennedy, 1980'; quote[14] = '"As of Saturday 8th August 2009 this is my absolute favourite website!!!"
— christopher11880'; quote[15] = '"Hwæt!"
— Beowulf';