Library Quotes
-
Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.
-
The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.
-
In one of the rooms of the Fortuny Palace there are eight books from Prospero's Library. They are magical books. In many senses all books are magical.
-
A house that has a library in it has a soul.
-
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.
-
A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.
-
I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Because that's what Hermione does,' said Ron, shrugging. 'When in doubt, go to the library.
-
The librarian spoke in a reverential whisper. Corliss knew she'd misjudged this passionate woman. Maybe she dressed poorly, but she was probably great in bed, certainly believed in God and goodness, and kept an illicit collection of overdue library books on her shelves.
-
The library, to me, is the second most sacred physical space on the planet.
-
The biggest thing I did was that I used to go to the library. I fed my mind every day.
-
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.
-
A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.
-
There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.
-
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.
-
The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.
-
Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unusual among his immediate family in that he was enormously cultured and had an incredible library.
-
Describing his house: It is a library with living rooms attached.
-
The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.
-
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.
-
She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence.
-
Health information is just about the number one thing that people go into public libraries and connect to public libraries for. They're also looking for information about things that can make their lives better. It's a great equalizer.
