Library Quotes
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Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship.
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I think for Amazon's customers, it offers a kind of addictive service - the ability to shop without leaving your house, the ability to read without going to a bookstore or a library.
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A library is all the university you will ever need.
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I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library.
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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
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He said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library. I thought, "That's a turn-up for the books".
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The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.
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I believe that when an elder dies, a library is burned: vast sums of wisdom and knowledge are lost. Throughout the world libraries are ablaze with scant attention.
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I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.
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If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.
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…that perfect Tranquillity of Life, which is no where to be found, but in retreat, a faithful Friend and a good Library…
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A library is a growing organism.
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Seeing that we were book enthusiasts, my mother began hauling my sister and me down to the Stanton Free Library on Tuesday afternoons, where I'd find two or three books to bring home.
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Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.
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My house is like a manga library in many ways, and it's great because I get to call it research.
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My mum was a children's librarian, so I spent a lot of time in the library. My reading life, because of my mum's work, was evenly split between American, Canadian, Australian and British authors.
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I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of the house and hide from the children.
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That's Tommy, this great producer who comes in contact with people and must have a mental library of personnel who are great for this and great for that, and he brought this whole group of musicians to the project that I'd never worked with before.
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Ranganathan's 5 Laws: Books are for use. Books are for all. Every book its reader, or every reader his book. Save the time of the reader. A library is a growing organism.
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Seduced her? Every time I turned round she was up a library ladder. In the end I gave in. That reminds me—I spotted something between her legs that made me think of you.
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Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know whether I am a liberal or a conservative, I am nevertheless enlivened by the hatred which one bears the other. In fact, this hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world.
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Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.
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My mother always kept library books in the house, and one rainy Sunday afternoon - this was before television, and we didn't even have a radio - I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered I was reading and enjoying what I read.
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A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation.
