//store the quotations in arrays quotes = new Array(92); authors = new Array(92); quotes[0] = " \"Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. \" "; authors[0] = "Theodore Geisel"; quotes[1] = " \"It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.\" "; authors[1] = "Paul Gauguin"; quotes[2] = " \"The human being, even in the midst of people, spends nine-tenths of his time alone with the private voices of his own head.\" "; authors[2] = "from My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George"; quotes[3] = " \"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.\" "; authors[3] = "Edgar Allan Poe"; quotes[4] = " \"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.\" "; authors[4] = "Malcolm Forbes"; quotes[5] = " \"I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.\" "; authors[5] = "John Burroughs"; quotes[6] = " \"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.\" "; authors[6] = "Margaret Mead"; quotes[7] = " \"I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.\" "; authors[7] = "John Muir"; quotes[8] = " \"I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.\" "; authors[8] = "Georgia O'Keeffe"; quotes[9] = " \"I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.\" "; authors[9] = "Dwight D. Eisenhower"; quotes[10] = " \"It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.\" "; authors[10] = "Eleanor Roosevelt"; quotes[11] = " \"The important thing is not to stop questioning.\" "; authors[11] = "Albert Einstein"; quotes[12] = " \"Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.\" "; authors[12] = "Henry David Thoreau"; quotes[13] = " \"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.\" "; authors[13] = "Douglas Adams"; quotes[14] = " \"Most of all, I love that when I write I am not skinny and black and a slave. My writing has no color. It has no skin at all, truth to tell.\" "; authors[14] = "from Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons by Ann Rinaldi"; quotes[15] = " \"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.\" "; authors[15] = "Martin Luther King Jr."; quotes[16] = " \"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: - We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.\" "; authors[16] = "Martin Luther King Jr."; quotes[17] = " \"A room without books is like a body without a soul.\" "; authors[17] = "Cicero"; quotes[18] = " \"From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.\" "; authors[18] = "Groucho Marx"; quotes[19] = " \"The one positive thing you could say about the bread products around him was that they were probably as edible now as they were on the day they were baked. 'Forged' was a better term. Dwarf bread was made as a meal of last resort and also as a weapon and a currency.\" "; authors[19] = "from The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett"; quotes[20] = " \"Even now, I could see other worlds, other messages, appearing in the sheets of paper that were unfolding in my fingers. Pockets of parchment opened at random, each disclosing a hidden doorway to wisdom, a miniature book. It was more wonderful than anything I had imagined-much faster than Herr Gutenberg's press.\" "; authors[20] = "from Endymion Spring by Matthew Skelton"; quotes[21] = " \"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.\" "; authors[21] = "Groucho Marx "; quotes[22] = " \"Never judge a book by its movie.\" "; authors[22] = "J. W. Eagan"; quotes[23] = " \"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.\" "; authors[23] = "Moses Hadas "; quotes[24] = " \"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.\" "; authors[24] = "Groucho Marx"; quotes[25] = " \"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.\" "; authors[25] = "Vincent van Gogh"; quotes[26] = " \"It seemed marvelous to see life pumping through that strange little body of feathers, wordless noise, milk eyes-much as life pumped through me.\" "; authors[26] = "from My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George"; quotes[27] = " \"The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.\" "; authors[27] = "Katharine Mansfield"; quotes[28] = " \"Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.\" "; authors[28] = "Kathleen Norris"; quotes[29] = " \"This, milord, is my family's ax. We have owned it for almost nine hundred years, see. Of course, sometimes it needed a new blade. And sometimes it has required a new handle, new designs on the metalwork, a little refreshing of the ornamentation...but is this not the nine-hundred-year-old ax of my family?\" "; authors[29] = "from The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett"; quotes[30] = " \"In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.\" "; authors[30] = "Mortimer Adler"; quotes[31] = " \"As the tiny lights drift into the blackness, the people pray that others around the world will remember Hiroshima and work for world peace.\" "; authors[31] = "from Hiroshima by Laurence Yep"; quotes[32] = " \"In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.\" "; authors[32] = "S. I. Hayakawa"; quotes[33] = " \"Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. \" "; authors[33] = "William Hazlitt"; quotes[34] = " \"Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can.\" "; authors[34] = "Terry Pratchett"; quotes[35] = " \"The ax of my grandfather, the king called it. You change things around, you replace every bit, but the ax survives. There's [there'll] always be an Igor.\" "; authors[35] = "from The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett"; quotes[36] = " \"These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.\" "; authors[36] = "Gilbert Highet"; quotes[37] = " \"'By tonight there will be thome very lucky people in thethe parth—'

'And these parts in some very lucky people?'\" "; authors[37] = "Igor and Commander Vimes in The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett"; quotes[38] = " \"Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.\" "; authors[38] = "Isaac Asimov"; quotes[39] = " \"A generation learns that knowledge is punished and safety lies in ignorance. The next generation doesn't know they're ignorant, because they don't know what knowledge was.\" "; authors[39] = "from Voices by Ursula Le Guin"; quotes[40] = " \"Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.\" "; authors[40] = "Jessamyn West"; quotes[41] = " \"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.\" "; authors[41] = "Ralph Waldo Emerson"; quotes[42] = " \"Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.\" "; authors[42] = "Ezra Pound"; quotes[43] = " \"She had a complicated thought, all about the existence of numbers everywhere-interest rates, thermometer degrees, even Civil War dead-affecting her life whether she understood or not.\" "; authors[43] = "from Down the Rabbit Hole by Peter Abrahams"; quotes[44] = " \"The entire city, it seemed, was built of books. Stacked on top of each other, slotted side by side, they fitted together like bricks to form a tremendous fortification of reading, a labyrinth of words. There were even miles of books beneath him now, in tunnels below the ground. The university was an immense walk-in library. \" "; authors[44] = "from Endymion Spring by Matthew Skelton"; quotes[45] = " \"When I get a little money I buy books- and if any is left I buy food and clothes.\" "; authors[45] = "Erasmus"; quotes[46] = " \"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.\" "; authors[46] = "Edmund Burke"; quotes[47] = " \"Now he was bottling me up. As Parliament was bottling up the colonies. Yes, he was teaching me. My mind was growing. And I had nowhere to go.\" "; authors[47] = "from Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons by Ann Rinaldi"; quotes[48] = " \"We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.\" "; authors[48] = " B. F. Skinner"; quotes[49] = " \"Find your true self, your true image, and you shall tap into the greater good-the higher power that breathes life into all things. Most assuredly! And while you may not prevail in your own time and place, your efforts will flow outward as ripples on a pond. Powered by the greater good, they may touch faraway shores, altering their destinies long after you have gone.\" "; authors[49] = " from The Mirror of Merlin by T. A. Barron"; quotes[50] = " \"He [Cairpré] also knew that I [Merlin] had always longed to move through time-even dreaming, as a young boy, about traveling through it backward. To grow younger, as the world around me grew older.\" "; authors[50] = "from The Mirror of Merlin by T. A. Barron"; quotes[51] = " \" [Wings] On his hat and his ankles. So he could fly the messages at the speed of...messages. \" "; authors[51] = "from Going Postal by Terry Pratchett"; quotes[52] = " \"The library is like a place of sacredness. If we were fools at onetime, perhaps we will not be fools tomorrow, if we study.\" "; authors[52] = "Chief Tom Porter"; quotes[53] = " \"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.\" "; authors[53] = "Abraham Lincoln"; quotes[54] = " \"Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!.\" "; authors[54] = " Dumbledore-Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"; quotes[55] = " \"From this day on and forever, I will never use the word PEN again. Instead, I will use the word FRINDLE, and I will do everything possible so others will, too.\" "; authors[55] = " Nick Allen-Frindle"; quotes[56]=" \"Perhaps some of the energy of a dying star finds its way into the heart of a young girl on a distant planet.\" "; authors[56] = " from Heartlight by T. A. Barron"; quotes[57]=" \"I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently, slay one another. I see that the keenest brains of the world invent weapons and words to make it yet more refined and enduring.\" "; authors[57] = " from All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque"; quotes[58] = " \"It's a fact: Jane Austen is musical. And so's Yeats. And Wordsworth. All the great writers are musical.\" "; authors[58] = " from Things Hoped For by Andrew Clements"; quotes[59] = " \"Why wasn't more time in school spent studying things that were unknown or not understood instead of things that had already been discovered and explained?\" "; authors[59] = " from Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett"; quotes[60] = " \"I wondered if thinking about this race stuff too much made you see it in places where it didn't exist. But then I wondered the opposite: maybe it existed all the time, and you only saw it if you were really thinking about it?\" "; authors[60] = " from Project Mulberry by Linda Sue Park"; quotes[61] = " \"Maybe everything in life had its messy bits. Things other people didn't see. Or didn't know they didn't know. Or didn't want to think about. Maybe that was exactly the reason I had to think about them.\" "; authors[61] = " from Project Mulberry by Linda Sue Park"; quotes[62] = " \"Getting an unforgettable letter happens once or twice in a lifetime. Writing an unforgettable letter is a pretty tough thing to do unless you have something very real to say.\" "; authors[62] = " from Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett"; quotes[63] = " \"Christian nations dealing with peoples of other faiths and lesser power [Lydia Maria Child wrote] never act on the same moral principles as those by which they themselves expect to be treated.\" "; authors[63] = " from Tongue of Flame by Milton Meltzer"; quotes[64] = " \"It is assumed that war settles questions of right, but the plain truth is, that nothing is ever settled by physical force. The settling has to be done afterward, by mutual treaties and laws; and it would be wiser, and cheaper, and far more kindly to settle disputes in that way, with the omission of the monstrous prelude of blowing out one another's brains.\" "; authors[64] = "Lydia Maria Child"; quotes[65] = " \"The First World War holds up a mirror to the present, showing how small follies lead to great disasters, how ordinarily intelligent people walk open-eyed into Hell.\" "; authors[65] = "Freeman Dyson, scientist"; quotes[66] = " \"She remembered Grandfather saying once that the creation of the universe wasn't just a one-time event, that it was going on all the time, right now even-that the briefest afternoon shower helped continue the process.\" "; authors[66] = "from The Ancient One by T. A. Barron"; quotes[67] = " \"I was trying to imagine how difficult things would have to be before you could be uplifted by a nut. Not even a real nut. A picture of a nut.\" "; authors[67] = "from Framed by Frank Cottrell Boyce"; quotes[68] = " \"Don't they look lovely? Like big flowers. And every one of them's got two people under it. Whispering, chatting, laughing. The umbrellas are like parties on sticks.\" "; authors[68] = "from Framed by Frank Cottrell Boyce"; quotes[69] = " \"Some of the books they [traveling librarians] loaned were so old that the printing had been worn gray by the pressure of people's eyeballs reading it.\" "; authors[69] = "from Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett"; quotes[70] = " \"He was great at air sword. In front of a mirror he could fence against his reflection and win nearly all the time.\" "; authors[70] = "from Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett"; quotes[71] = " \"They say that there can never be two snowflakes that are exactly alike, but has anyone checked lately?\" "; authors[71] = "from Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett"; quotes[72] = " \"It's always surprising to be reminded that while you're watching and thinking about people, all knowing and superior, they're watching and thinking about you, right back at you.\" "; authors[72] = "from A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett"; quotes[73] = " \"The only hat worth wearing was the one you made for yourself, not one you bought, not one you were given. Your own hat, for your own head. Your own future, not someone else's.\" "; authors[73] = "from A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett"; quotes[74] = " \"When I'm standing beside a horse, I feel that I'm neither girl nor boy, child nor adult, strong nor weak. I'm accepted just as I am. And there, and only there, I can breathe.\" "; authors[74] = "from Firehorse by Diane Lee Wilson"; quotes[75] = " \"And I had crossed into Mr. Jude's garden and something about that made me indecent and maybe evil, too, because I was always galloping headlong down a path of my own making when everyone else was content to travel the one already paved.\" "; authors[75] = "from Firehorse by Diane Lee Wilson"; quotes[76] = " \"If a guy like you can stand up and do what you did, then maybe everyone can. Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.\" "; authors[76] = "from I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak"; quotes[77] = " \"Besides, I've been around for some time and I've noticed that them as has it in them to shine will shine through six layers of muck, whereas those who ain't shiny won't shine however much you buff 'em. \" "; authors[77] = "from Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett"; quotes[78] = " \"The world is full of small round things that aren't eyeballs! \" "; authors[78] = "from Hogfather by Terry Pratchett"; quotes[79] = " \"IF I HAD A FIRST NAME, "DUTY" WOULD BE MY MIDDLE NAME. \" "; authors[79] = "from Hogfather by Terry Pratchett"; quotes[80] = " \"Everything he built worked. It just didn't do what it said on the box. If you wanted a small ground-to-air missile, you asked Johnson to design an ornamental fountain. \" "; authors[80] = "from Hogfather by Terry Pratchett"; quotes[81] = " \"When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out. \" "; authors[81] = "from Paper Towns by John Green"; quotes[82] = " \"you listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to. \" "; authors[82] = "from Paper Towns by John Green"; quotes[83] = " \"The fundamental mistake I had always made - and that she had, in fairness, always led me to make - was this: Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl. \" "; authors[83] = "from Paper Towns by John Green"; quotes[84] = " \"[Historians] They don't believe half the things a sitting president says, but they ascribe truth to any contemporaneous quote from a historical figure. \" "; authors[84] = "from The Shut Mouth Society by James D. Best"; quotes[85] = " \"They had tried to destroy the Will, but that proved to be beyond their power. So they broke it, in two ways. It was broken physically, torn apart, with the fragments of heavy parchment scattered across both space and time. It was broken in spirit because not one clause of it had been fulfilled. \" "; authors[85] = "from Mister Monday by Garth Nix"; quotes[86] = " \"The wizards said that the University stood on magical ground and was therefore exempt from taxation and anyway you couldn't put a tax on knowledge.

The Patrician said you could. It was two hundred dollars per capita; if per capita was a problem, de-capita could be arranged. \" "; authors[86] = "from Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett"; quotes[87] = " \"I AM NOT KNOWN FOR MY SENSE OF FUN \" "; authors[87] = "Death from Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett"; quotes[88] = " \"Rule number one for saving the world: Always have cookies. \" "; authors[88] = "Miss Babb from Steinbeck's Ghost by Lewis Buzbee"; quotes[89] = " \"No, these books were not life, he knew, and now that he'd seen life so much more close up, in the Corral with his sister nearly dying, he knew more than ever that books did not take the place of real life. But books were important, too. Hadn't they taken him out of his quiet family home and led him into the real world? Without these books, he'd have never gone out there. \" "; authors[89] = "from Steinbeck's Ghost by Lewis Buzbee"; quotes[90] = " \"It's not this one thing that's gonna save the world. It's this one small thing and that one small thing, and all the others. This small thing here, it's part of something much bigger. \" "; authors[90] = "Travis from Steinbeck's Ghost by Lewis Buzbee"; quotes[91] = " \"Libraries raised me. I don’t believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years. \" "; authors[91] = "Ray Bradbury"; //calculate a random index index = Math.floor(Math.random() * quotes.length); //display the quotation document.write("
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