Library Quotes
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In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.
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There were a lot of things I loved about working in a library, but mostly I miss the library patrons. I love books, but books are everywhere. Library patrons are as various and oddball and democratic as library books.
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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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You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library. She pointed to the shelf opposite. Over there was Catch-22, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe.
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A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully.
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In my library/study/barn, there is a Ping-Pong table on which I can pile working books and spread maps.
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L.A. is a constellation of microclimates and microcosms, a library with dozens of special collections. A 20-minute drive can bring a temperature change of 15 degrees. Crossing an intersection can feel like crossing a national border.
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The library was like a second home. Or maybe more like a real home, more than the place I lived in. By going every day I got to know all the lady librarians who worked there. They knew my name and always said hi. I was painfully shy, though, and could barely reply.
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Here's another piece of advice, only date people who have read a different set of books than you have read, it will save you lots of time in the library.
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Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don’t think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.
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The library is…a university of the people, from which the students are never graduated.
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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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In the candle's flickering light, the library's thousands of books emerged from the shadows, and for a moment Nicholas could not help admiring them again. During free time he had almost never looked up from the pages he was reading, but now he saw the books anew, from without rather than from within, and was reminded of how beautiful they were simply as objects. The geometrical wonder of them all, each book on its own and all the books together, row upon row, the infinite patterns and possibilities they presented. They were truly lovely.
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I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.
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You can tell a lot by the size of a mans library.
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For books [Charles Darwin] had no respect, but merely considered them as tools to be worked with. ... he would cut a heavy book in half, to make it more convenient to hold. He used to boast that he had made Lyell publish the second edition of one of his books in two volumes, instead of in one, by telling him how ho had been obliged to cut it in half. ... his library was not ornamental, but was striking from being so evidently a working collection of books.
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Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.
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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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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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Places of incredible glamour, possibility, power, excitement and pleasure. Love your libraries!
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Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume.
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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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One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library.
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But with the library, it's like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there's so much to look at and read.
