Library Quotes
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Roosevelt gazed around the library. A glint in his spectacles betrayed displeasure. Loeb came up inquiringly, and there was a whispered conversation in which the words newspapermen and sufficient room were audible. Hurrying outside, Loeb returned with two dozen delighted scribes. They proceeded to report the subsequent ceremony with a wealth of detail unmatched in the history of presidential inaugurations.
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The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.
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When I was little, I wanted to be a doctor. I was really interested in gore. My grandfather was an orthopedic surgeon and he had a lot of books in his library that I would just pore over. A lot of them had really horrible pictures of deformities.
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I've got my library card and i'm checking you out!
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Three times a year, theres Strategicon convention, and I go for the board games. It happens Presidents Day, Labor Day, and Memorial Day weekends. You go and take a look at the new board games and meet a couple of board game designers, and you can check out games you dont own from the library and then return them.
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The library, to me, is the second most sacred physical space on the planet.
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Popular magazines multiply while the library shelves remain undisturbed.
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Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing.
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The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.
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Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.
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There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.
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A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I love books. I've always been involved with books and I wanted to help the library in any way possible. I'm an avid reader.
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The biggest thing I did was that I used to go to the library. I fed my mind every day.
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I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.
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The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.
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A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.
