Archives Quotations

On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on my collection of poems 'Native Guard.' I was there over a summer doing research in the archives and then writing in the reading room at the Jefferson building.

I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well.

Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.

There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very special interest in the history of the music and advised Martin Davidson of the existence of these tapes.

The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.

I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.

When I joined Gucci in 2002, I immediately wanted to make a research trip into the archives because I'd heard about how incredible they were, but I never had the opportunity to visit them.

Since Brooks Brothers is a 189-year-old company, there are plenty of references and inspirations I can draw from their archives and catalogs. The wearer of Black Fleece may not be all that different from mine, in that I imagine that it would be someone who is a true individual, and independent thinker. This is for both men and women.

I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of personal experiences.

I have a company that is not Microsoft, called Corbis. Corbis is the operation that merged with Bettman Archives. It has nothing to do with Microsoft. It was intentionally done outside of Microsoft because Microsoft isn't interested.

We're aware of the city's interest in keeping the regional archives in Fort Worth.

The external disk storage systems market growth continued to accelerate through the year. Data growth was one driver, but the availability of affordable systems that support multiple tiers of storage to address data protection, business continuity requirements, and online, active archives also contributed.

I'm trying to figure out what I can do creatively. It's about trying to find new things and trying to figure out voices and borrowing from things and learning as much as possible so that I have an archive of things to borrow from.

We're looking to sign artists who make great hit music that can have mass appeal regardless of genre. There have been independent gay and lesbian labels before, but nothing that has the clout of Sony. We can mine all the great music within the Sony archives and beyond.

Certainly, auctioneers know how to identify government documents, but that does not always stop them from trying to sell them. What they don't know is whether these documents were part of the National Archives at one time or should be part of the National Archives.

It is a crime that material is being stolen from so many archives for it deprives future researchers insight into the past.

I think tape's going to be around a long time, but it's being repositioned. We're still going to need tape to hold older backups and longer term archives because it's still the most inexpensive way to do that. The difference is that tape will be the second tier of backups, not the first tier anymore.

Last time I was here, I went up to the archives and got shown around, and there was the dark helm, ... I asked if I could put it on and get a picture, which is pretty funny, because I'm wearing this gray track suit and had this enormous helmet on which is just completely disproportionate.

Research promoted by NARA within a major coalition of Federal and private sector research partners has at last demonstrated that an Electronic Records Archives can be built.

RESEARCHING THE GENEALOGICAL RECORDS OF SACRAMENTO CITY AND COUNTY ARCHIVES

The archives are an extremely important facet of the settlement because what the survivors and their families were looking for in this case was not only the monetary restitution, but historic accountability.

We hope that you will tell as many people as you can about the archives so people can come and use it.

Using that one slip of paper, and knowing my great grandmother's and great grandfather's names, I was able to go to the National Archives and trace the family through the census.

Thousands of executives and professionals and homemakers have their own automatic labelers, ... and my archives are full of their comments, like, 'Incredible -- I wouldn't have believed what a difference it makes!' the labeler will be used to label your file folders, binder spines and numerous other things.

We got to play to a crowd of Lucasfilm, LucasArts and ILM employees straight after their work hours and it was surprisingly good fun, ... Our song 'Clones' from Republic Commando and our cover of ' Cantina Band ' went down like a storm. We had props of Darth Vader , a stormtrooper and R2-D2 brought out of the archives and put on stage with us, as we played a short half hour set. Artoo is well aware he's my favorite so he obviously had to hang out stage left.

We're excited to bring this historic footage to the world. Previously, you had to go to the National Archives in Washington, D.C., to see these films. Now, you can simply sit down at your computer anywhere in the world and watch history.

if it's not in my email archive, I don't know it

What's unique about [4chan] is that it's anonymous, and it has no memory. There's no archive, there are no barriers, there's no registration. ... That's led to this discussion that's completely raw, completely unfiltered.

While I've won five Junos, I've donated four of them to the National Archives in Ottawa. Which left my fifth Juno sitting, seemingly abandoned by its four family members, on my bookcase in my dining room.

We want to try to work together (with the city) on this. Archives and History always likes to find win-win situations.

But then I received a September 12 letter from Archives and History telling me they should be notified, and I told the board,

We've had a tsunami and a flood. People are more tuned in, I think, than they may have been, The archives are not going away.

There's probably other hidden treasures in archives throughout the community. The community needs to recognize how many hidden treasures we have here. They're literally everywhere.

I spent months digging through our archives looking for unique photos of Glacier National Park. With the help of former editor Brian Kennedy and Patsi Morton (Ruder's daughter) I was able to come up with a truly unique book. Some of these gems haven't seen print in 60 years. Some were never published at all. This book was a lot of fun to put together. About half of the photos in the book are from the Ruder era, which only makes sense, since Ruder, the founder of the Hungry Horse News owned the newspaper for more than half of its 60 years.

Thanks to Discovery, over one million visitors to the National Archives now have a perfect introduction to the depth and diversity of the Archives' holdings. Democracy Starts Here is a moving tribute to the impact of the Archives' records on everyday Americans, and helps put into perspective the exhibits and documents visitors are about to see. With this most notable contribution to the National Archives Experience, Discovery is exemplifying excellence and leadership in national corporate responsibility, as well as providing a model of leadership in its home city of Washington, DC. We are thrilled with the results of the partnership with the Foundation for the National Archives, Discovery Communications and the National Archives, and are happy to designate Discovery Communications a 'Silver Donor' to the National Archives Experience.

This is an important milestone both for the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and the American orchestra industry. For the first time, an American orchestra is making available its archives on iTunes and other commercial download sites, finally realizing the promise of the groundbreaking AF of M (American Federation of Musicians) Internet Agreement of 2000.

The Yugoslav forces, so we are learning, are destroying the archives of the Kosovar people: property deeds, marriage licenses, birth certificates, financial and other records.

As unrefined and basic as an animal's emotional equipment may be, it is not insensitive to freedom. Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable.

It's a big celebration but I wanted to work with the archives into the future.

It was the collection that put (the university's) special collections and archives on the map. I knew about the archives here through the work that Neal had done.

It's going to be the archives and it's going to be the generational copies that they never get back.

Data growth was one driver, but the availability of affordable systems that support multiple tiers of storage to address data protection, business continuity requirements, and online, active archives also contributed.

Taken together, the archives of broadcasters are as much a part of our postwar popular culture as the Beatles or Harry Potter,

It's amazing what they turn up in those archives

I remembered that my grandfather had spent his teenage years in Shanghai and that he went back after he finished medical school to work there in a hospital. So I went back into my family archives and was able to find out his exact address; it was a street that was in the French Concession.

I plan to work very closely with the University Of Arkansas System, the Clinton Foundation and the National Archives in building on a great partnership.

CMA established the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1961, and it is truly our format's ultimate honor. We are proud to continue support of the Museum, which not only displays the Hall of Fame plaques, but also showcases and archives unique country music artifacts in addition to providing outstanding educational opportunities about our musical format.

Seances is an internet project where I intended to adapt at least a hundred and maybe three hundred lost films into ten and twenty minute long fragmentary versions. We then uploaded them to an internet archive that fragmented them even more. We treated them like shreds of lost movie spirits and allowed these spirits to interrupt each other in non-consecutive collisions that formed new movies.

How did we end the summer ... stuck between a Roberts and a hard place? We've spent months poring over 60,000 pages from the National Archives and reams of personal profiles for clues about how John Roberts would rule on the highest court in land. ... The bottom line is that barring some last minute photo of John Roberts popping out of a cake at a KKK rally smoking crack, he's going to be confirmed. And if he were magically derailed, who would be next? ... John Roberts may turn out to be as far right as People for the American Way says. But he may also be as good as it gets under this administration.

Honesty is a long lost art form resigned to the archives of famous quotes and a few lone ducks in a pond of hypocrites.

I realized the importance of archiving. So I save key pieces from my collections, as well as any red-carpet things that become iconic. I always ask for that stuff back. I'm like, "It's going in my archives."

I woke up one day and I was like, "I don't have anything to save for myself for the future." That's when I started archiving things. I take four or five things that are really key to each collection, and I restore them or, in some cases, remake parts of them, and archive them.

It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a homesickness, a nostalgia for the return to the most archaic place of absolute commencement

People can burn archives; people can destroy evidence, but to say that history is perishable, that historical evidence is perishable, is different than saying that history is subjective.

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.

The archives recall not one single incriminating incident, not one drunken escapade, not one reported affair, not one spat with a team-mate or reporter - As Matthew Parris wondered of Barack Obama in these pages recently, is he human?

Social Networking that matters is helping people archive their goals. Doing it reliably and repeatability so that over time people have an interest in helping you achieve your goals.

I am certainly influenced by certain post-structuralist traditions but also a number of other theoretical archives as well - including the brilliant work of Paulo Freire, Zygmunt Bauman, Loic Wacquant, Nancy Fraser, Tony Judt, and others.

The historical importance of the survival of these archives cannot be overestimated, ... one of the nation's great historical treasures.

The increasing legal pressure against archives has created anxieties among researchers, librarians, and journalists. They cite the need to protect sources who wish to make a record for posterity; procuring documents and interviews from those sources will be difficult if the fruits are only one subpoena away from disclosure.

The CIA has worked hand in glove with the National Archives over the years on declassification and welcomes this initiative.

The C.I.A. has worked hand in glove with the National Archives over the years on declassification and welcomes this initiative.

The CIA has released more than 26m pages to the national archives since 1998 - a huge amount of work by a small number of people. Other agencies also released CIA documents. Though the process typically works well, there will always be the anomaly.

I love this idea of the body as a trauma archive!

What's an archive, son? Is that anything like a closet?

Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable.

Natural selection is all about the differential success of rival DNA in getting itself transmitted vertically in the species archives.

Let's face it, we're all clones nowadays. We've all got the same archives, we've all got the same Hyundai, we've all got the same Mac or PC components, and we're all being told the same news stories globally.

Without archives many stories of real people would be lost, and along with those stories, vital clues that allow us to reflect and interpret our lives today.

Language is the archives of history.