Library Quotes

• I was obsessed with George Orwell for years. I remember going to the town library and having to put in interlibrary loan requests to get the compilation of his BBC radio pieces. I had to get everything he ever wrote.

  

  Jill Lepore
  • Remember
  • Library

• I was on my own at Wellesley, surrounded by a lot of young women who were motivated and intellectually curious. I started to read because I was required to do so for class, but I soon found myself enjoying the seclusion of the library. I came to see reading as an important way to learn about people, including myself.

  

  Elisabeth Shue
  • People
  • Important
  • Women

• Nagiko, I am waiting for you. Meet me at the library. Any library. Every library. Yours, Jerome.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Waiting
  • Library

• I think that it's not enough to do the little Band-Aid things of having celebrities come and read to children. Not that we don't need to read to children, but we don't need to just do it one time and feel good about it. I think we need to think long range about poor people and their relationship to libraries.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Long

• Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

  

  Spider Robinson
  • World
  • Secret
  • Information

• For thousands and thousands of American kids, libraries are the only safe place they can find to study, a haven free from the dangers of street or the numbing temptations of television. As schools cut back services, the library looms even more important to countless children.

  

  Scott Turow
  • Important
  • Children
  • School

• The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects.

  

  Joseph Lancaster
  • Library
  • Teachers
  • Publications

• The biggest thing I did was that I used to go to the library. I fed my mind every day.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Mind
  • Library
  • Feds

• Oh, I get lucky a lot. I get lucky at four in the morning in the law library.

  

  Louis Nizer
  • Law
  • Morning
  • Lucky

• It's strange, isn't it. You stand in the middle of a library and go aaaaagghhhh' and everyone just stares at you. But you do the same thing on an aeroplane, and everyone joins in.

  

  Tommy Cooper
  • Strange
  • Middle
  • Staring

• Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry, of morality, and afterwords, when we have filled the world with industrial marvels, with great factories, with roads, museums and libraries, we shall fall exhausted at the foot of it all, and it will subsist — for whom? Was man made for science or was science made for man?

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • World
  • Men
  • Art

• My first contact with game theory was a popular article in 'Fortune Magazine' which I read in my last high school year. I was immediately attracted to the subject matter, and when I studied mathematics, I found the fundamental book by von Neumann and Morgenstern in the library and studied it.

  

  Reinhard Selten
  • School
  • Mathematics
  • Fortune

• If the library's rarest frequenters are the ones we'd like to see in them the most, then libraries are failing.

  

  David Harsanyi
  • Library

• You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books.

  

  Joanna Trollope
  • Library

• I know the American Library Association has models for working with the poor. They do have that, and I think that we really need to put our efforts - if we want to think long-range and invest in the community so that we don't have to, you know, invest in prisons - into making a change, because I know that the library can make a change in a life, because it made a change in mine.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Thinking
  • Community
  • Effort

• A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Library
  • Generations
  • Witness

• The Web is cool, but the library is magic.

  

  Arthur Plotnik
  • Magic
  • Library
  • Web

• I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of life.

  

  Tracy Chevalier
  • Taken
  • Distraction
  • Bliss

• In the library I discovered that you could learn by following your nose. And I learned that a book was as close to a living thing as you could get without being one.

  

  Bill Harley
  • Library
  • Learned
  • Discovered

• I never imagined I'd go into acting, but I always loved drama, and when I was 16, I discovered the Library Theatre up the road. So I plucked up courage and asked if I could watch rehearsals. It was like Heaven.

  

  Lesley Nicol
  • Up
  • Heaven
  • Road

• Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Drink

• If you're rich, you can leave a library, a building, or a hospital wing. But writing leaves behind a visceral sense of what it was like to be alive on the planet in a particular time. Writing tells us what it meant for someone to be human.

  

  Claire Messud
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Library

• OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.

  

  Gary D. Schmidt
  • Reading
  • Books
  • Library

• I do not know how wicked American millionaires are, but as I travel about and see the results of their generosity in the form of hospitals, churches, public libraries, universities, parks, recreation grounds, art museums and theatres I wonder what on earth we should do without them.

  

  William Lyon Phelps
  • Art
  • Theatre
  • Generosity

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