Library Quotes
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Every library answers a twofold need, which is often also a twofold obsession: that of conserving certain objects (books) and that of organizing them in certain ways
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But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole.
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My library was - all libraries are - a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because they aren't binding; and where illusion is comfortingly real.
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To make sure that votes are never canceled out by illegal votes, we instituted a photo ID requirement. And don't you think it's fair to apply at least the same standard required to get a library card or to board an airpane?
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That's my anxiety dream. I go to the library and all the books on my subject are out.
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What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read?
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You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature. Then, you can pick the one thing you love most and write about it.
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My father was in the Army and we moved around a lot, and one of my favorite places was the library.
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Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.
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The library was one more essential in the parade of rooms in a big 18th-century house - and part of the required kit ever afterwards. The important thing was to have the books, not actually read them.
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Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.
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I'm focusing on the music, but I still got a cold library of books that I've either read or I plan on getting to.
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Corliss wondered what happens to a book that sits unread on a library shelf for thirty years. Can a book rightfully be called a book if it never gets read? If a tree falls in a forest and gets pulped to make paper for a book that never gets read, but there's nobody there to read it, does it make a sound?
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You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.
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You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries.
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There's a book inside you. There's a library inside me.
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Reclaim your role as eco-role models and exemplars in your community. Change is happening rapidly. Let libraries continue to be at the center of it.
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You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.
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A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.
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It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.
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I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.
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An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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Be as careful of the books you read as the company you keep.
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We honor ambition, we reward greed, we celebrate materialism, we worship acquisitiveness, we commercialize art, we cherish success and then we bark at the young about the gentle arts of the spirit. The kids know that if we really valued learning, we would pay our teachers what we pay our lawyers and stockbrokers. If we valued art, we would not measure it by its capacity to produce profits. If we regarded literature as important, we would remove it from the celebrity sweepstakes and spend a little money on our libraries.
