Encyclopedia Quotes

I still want just one at-bat in the Major Leagues. Just one. I`ll take it over an Oscar. Then, I`m in the Baseball Encyclopedia. Forever. Forever. Even if I strike or walk.

When I started out on "Star Trek: Voyager" (1995), they had to tell me everything about Star Trek, because I knew nothing about it. I had never seen the original series, I had never seen "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987). I think I`d seen a couple of episodes here and there - of the original series, probably. Never seen Voyager. Didn`t know what a Borg was. They gave me a copy of First Contact, the movie, so I could at least see what a Borg was. They also gave me a copy of the Big Star Trek encyclopedia, whatever it is, so that I could bone up on my Star Trek knowledge. Fortunately, it sort of worked for the character that I wouldn`t know any of the back stories of the people on Voyager, because she was coming in cold, like I was. That was actually helpful as opposed to detrimental.

John Lundsten is so knowledgeable, he`s our walking encyclopedia.

I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on what classic Italian cooking is.

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.

This is something Alabama has needed for a very long time. We have modeled our project after the Georgia encyclopedia, which was designed exclusively online. Ours will go right to the Internet.

Paradoxically, perhaps, there seems nothing enduring to be gained in terms of meaningful life change purely from leisure, from having a great time. If you or I could redesign the world we`d certainly do it very differently, so that every time we took a magic vacation at some tropical paradise we would return full of more wisdom than the World Encyclopedia of Philosophical Quotations. Until then, we are well advised to accept the reality that the great lessons in life usually come to us through some form of extreme hardship.

He knew something about everything. He was a walking encyclopedia. You couldn`t play him in Trivial Pursuit. You could only try to contain him. He had not only read about everything, he had been there.

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