Library Quotes
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The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.
Ray Bradbury -
I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.
Scott Turow
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His library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore.
Ray Bradbury -
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.
Ray Bradbury -
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?
Rick Perry -
I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.
Ray Bradbury -
Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.
Ray Bradbury -
It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.
Ray Bradbury
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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.
Haruki Murakami -
Depressed I went out into the heat that lay on the neighborhood like a hand swollen with fever in that season, and made my way to the library.
Elena Ferrante -
You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.
Ray Bradbury -
I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that?
Ray Bradbury -
... I find myself coming out of the library with all women writers. I keep hoping the library attendant won't notice, but when 8 out of 8 of the books you take out are by women, you try not to look too dykey.
Eve Babitz -
I view askance a book that remains undisturbed for a year. Oughtn't it to have a ticket of leave? I think I may safely say no bookin my library remains unopened a year at a time, except my own works and Tennyson's.
Carolyn Wells
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A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection.
Catherynne M. Valente -
The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants.
Roy Blount, Jr. -
Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library.
Ray Bradbury -
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.
Ray Bradbury -
Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume.
Nathaniel Parker Willis -
... I had a dream where I was taken to Heaven and brought into a beautiful library. There I was given two golden books that were covered with dust. The Lord told me they were golden treasure that was needed for the Body of Christ to have the knowledge to proceed and succeed in this hour.
Bob Hartley
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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.
Peter York -
There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
Ray Bradbury -
One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library.
Terence McKenna -
Books were not looked upon as things unobtainable due to economic circumstances or class status. My grandfather stole an entire set of Dicken's from the local library.
Bob Hartley