A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.
[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.
Rules of Play is an exhaustive, clear, cogent, and complete resource for understanding games and game design. Salen and Zimmerman describe an encyclopedia of game design issues, techniques, and attributes. In particular, they analyze the elements that can make a game experience richer, more interesting, more emotional, more meaningful, and, ultimately, more successful. It should be the first stop you make when learning about game design.
Kids, she says. When they’re little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother, you’re the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together. But after they hit some magic age, it’s just the opposite. After that, you’re either a liar or a fool or a villain.
God is not an encyclopedia whose task it is to satisfy our curiosity.
You can have no idea, if you have not tried, how difficult it is to find out anything whatever from an encyclopedia, unless you know all about it already.
The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.
You couldn't drop knowledge if you threw an Encyclopedia off a cliff.
Who will ever kiss this encyclopedia of a head?
Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics, or the Body of Divinity, but in the sonnet or the play.
In a partner I'm looking for an encyclopedia and a dictionary. A bit of the Boy Scouts Handbook. A person who is conscientious about the trail he leaves behind him. Love. Unconditional kindness. Basically, I'm looking for the qualities I revere in my friends.
Who knew Lenny was an encyclopedia for useless information?
Elvis is my religion. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now.
A pest is a person who can talk like an encyclopedia, and does.
I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China and Liberia and England and Denmark and whatever, and I learned all the different flags and I tried to imagine what it would be like to be voyaging on some of these ships.
The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.
Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.
The Encyclopedia - the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment.
I like to think of The Falls as my own personal encyclopedia Greenaway-ensis.
