Library Quotations | Page 2

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. ANOTHER VERSION I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. ANOTHER VERSION I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book.

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

Many people who I respected were disappointed when I started 'Wine Library TV.' They thought I was dumbing down wine, but I always knew I was one of the biggest producers of new wine drinkers in the world, and people are realizing it now.

Accessible local libraries are vital to communities and to children.

Today, if you have an Internet connection, you have at your fingertips an amount of information previously available only to those with access to the world's greatest libraries - indeed, in most respects what is available through the Internet dwarfs those libraries, and it is incomparably easier to find what you need.

Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who have wept, who've all longed and lost, who've all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you're not really any different from everyone else.

I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.

One of the funniest lines we hear when we visit with people in the Capitol and talk to the decision-makers is, 'Well, the Internet has pretty much made the library obsolete.

One of the reasons that I take such joy in being a trustee of the New York Public Library is the love of reading that I found as a child in the Saturday morning library events for preschoolers and first and second graders as I was growing up in Augusta, GA.

One of the reasons the library is so important in Sharpsburg is many residents who don't have cars can walk to it, ... It's very sad. There are a zillion reasons the library needs to stay.

I work part-time after classes, so I don't get home until late. I really have no time to use the library during the week, when I need it the most. This makes it really hard to get my work done because I need a quiet place to work and my dorm is so noisy.

Nintendo is the Disney of the interactive world with its characters, ... They have an incredibly strong library of titles.

Nobody could believe that somebody would steal pocket change and break into the library to do so.

One of my sons - James - just had his computer crash and it's a mess. He's an aerospace engineer. But the church library and cataloguing is all being updated to computers by the woman who is our new librarian, Jani Wagner, so I won't worry.

One of the amazing aspects of the library is just the sheer numbers of computers that are available to the public.

No one library can ever hold all of this information in one place. It's also facilities. It's also staff ? now the community members will be exposed to so many.

My dorm is way too chaotic to work in. It would make my life a lot easier if Snell would stay open for a few more hours. Boston University actually accepted me last year. I'm sure that if I'd gone there the library hours would be a better fit for me. It would just be a lot easier to get my work done.

My concern is that we're placing him in this institutional conflict of interest, and that the library could end up losing in the end.

New development should include school needs, streets, sewer lines and hook-up, water lines and hook-up, sidewalk, utilities, cost of total public protection (manpower, equipment and structures), parks and library needed for new growth.

My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.

I have encountered those who feel that libraries have served their purpose and are no longer needed. There are those who consider them a soft target when it comes to local authority budget cuts. In certain political quarters, there is a refusal to see that our public library service needs active protection.

If they come to the library to play educational games and they think libraries are a fun place to be, they will come back again and again their whole life. We've generated a lifelong reader and a lifelong library user.

Library values are like real estate in Southern California - they generally go up every year.

Liberals stay up at night worrying about the library provisions in the Patriot Act, ... I stay up at night worried about whether we are going to have the ability to fight the war on terrorism with the same tools ... that I have had as a prosecutor to fight organized crime.

Movies provide flexibility in being able to set up your own video library, as proven in the DVD era. People want to build a high-impact library that retains the cinematic feel.

Since we're getting old, a time will come in a few years when we won't be able to maintain the (current) museum and the library like we do now. We're trying to get the younger generations, the children of brigade members and others interested in Cuban history to help maintain that interest in the brigade and in Cuba after we're gone.

She has more stamina than anyone I know. She doesn't miss a library opening, or a single community gathering She has a lot of credibility in the community. She has brought a real kind of organization to the council business that has made us more efficient.

She brought the library system together to make sure that all libraries were supported.

We had books in our library already on this art. That meant we could do research in our own collection.

send his assistants into every public library in America and secretly monitor what the rest of us are reading.

She thought of a sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.

She's insurance. She'll go in a living library of trees.

The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence

The only important thing a writer needs is a subject. What the reader hungers after is not accomplished craftsmanship nor even correct grammar but a frank report of the things a writer has done, seen, and thought. None of these can be learned in the library or classroom. They have to be learned in the unsheltered world of living where me get slivers of the truth beaten into their heads.

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.

When the state cut library budgets a while back, I began to study fundraising techniques. The only two we haven't tried here are pay toilets and slot machines.

A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.

My library is filled with UN condemnations.

Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

Libraries are not made, they grow.

The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence.

A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.

Dulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for one saw so many odd people there...

Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.

The library is the temple of learning.

The librarians know the secrets, not the historians

Former President Bill Clinton's presidential library opened this week making it by far the largest and most expensive presidential archive to date.

I am delighted that I can do my part to put quality books to the shelves of our local school libraries, ... Often times, school libraries are not provided with enough funding to renew book selections, so the Library of Congress program provides a real boost for these libraries, and helpes keep kids interested in reading.

I don't know why people aren't using the library frequently. Maybe it's the pull of the new bookstores, maybe it's something else. I'm not sure, but I do know we have computers here -- six for public use in this facility and 14 system-wide -- and our books are free. If you or your child reads a lot, the library is the place to visit.

Basically what we're trying to do is allow a consumer to build a digital library for the first time.

I have been coming to this library and using this great Chinese collection for eight years.

I had it described to me once by a young man who often comes into the library as a cross between Harry Potter and the X-Men. So I thought that was a great description. It's an excellent book, and the kids really love it, and they don't want me to stop.

Having a new building really piques the interest of people who have never been in the library and people who haven't been here in a few years.

Having him around is like having a library of knowledge. He's been coaching 25 years and in that time there probably isn't a defense or offense he hasn't seen or gone against. You just don't find guys like him, with that much knowledge, sitting around.

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.

God spoke to me and told me I should make a library for my church, Woods Presbyterian, because I had all these boxes of books that wasn't doing anybody any good, they were just sitting there. God told me that this was something I could do to help others and hopefully get more young people interested in coming to the church.

The owners of this library are the taxpayers who put up the money to get it built. I am disappointed for the children -- that they don't have their library.

We track library books better than we do sexual predators.

My modest wish then was that the library might, at some future time, have a building so I could see the light of day. It took 15 years from preliminary discussions to the opening of the museum to see those wishes realized.

I was an early reader, reading even before kindergarten, and since we did not have books in my home, my older brother, Alexander, was responsible for our trip every week to the public library to exchange books already read for new ones to be read.

presents all the options; we show the library of tea.

People like a library with more services and more hours ....

People in McKeesport saw what happened in Duquesne when they lost their library because of the lack of funding. I would get envelopes with a dollar in them. The residents didn't want to lose their library.

My music library has about every genre of music possible. I've really gotten into Ray LaMontagne, He makes amazing music, so I listen to him, and he's a great artist.

I think libraries are an important part of the community. If it wasn't for librarians recommending our books to people coming into the library unsure of what to read, where would authors be? I really applaud this community for being so serious about giving to their libraries.

Most questions focused on three areas: assistance with homework, how to do research and how to access library resources. That's where a professional librarian comes in handy.

I went to libraries. I went to the Library of Congress. I went to obscure video shops. Some of the most obscure films I found were in the dark, hidden, X-rated corners of the store.

I suspect that we may differ with the selectmen on any number of issues overall but you have to respect their courage and leadership on a tough issue like this override. These four selectmen took a stand to address an immediate problem. Had they not, anything from cutting library hours to the layoff of vital public safety workers, would have resulted.

I think within the library system, we all think the action figure is wonderful. When it came out, all the librarians bought one and have it here on their desks. It's a nice, tongue-in-cheek piece for librarians.

Removing books from the library is a no-no.

Our principal, Bernard Rogers, approved the project after I presented him with the outline of what, how, where and to whom Gautier High School students would donate their items. Soon donations of books, bears and buttons (coats) started coming in. Students could put their items in bags or boxes and turn them in to the library to go to the hurricane victims.

Our client wants to tell the American public about the dangers of allowing the FBI to demand library records without court approval.

I think reconstructing his library would be fantastic. That would be a real contribution to scholarship.

It is something we would certainly look at, ... I want to have a central library that's really a vibrant part of our downtown. Especially as more residents move there, they will want to have access to the library downtown.

Three areas are still off-limits. The library and science room are still a crime scene. The cafeteria is being cleaned up.

Unfortunately today, software and failure are too frequently linked, and we as an industry need to start tackling the software problem with the urgency it deserves. The root cause of this problem is often the complex and inefficient way that software is delivered. To reduce the complexity and increase the predictability of software delivery, we are offering customers a series of packaged, maturity-based solutions that leverage our global process expertise, our comprehensive library of process assets and templates, and our award-winning ALM technology.

We know it is only in the discussion phase, but it would be wonderful to have a library here.

We are delighted to be working in collaboration with Endeavor. This partnership represents a significant step toward an exciting future of expanded integration between technology vendors. As a result, this and future agreements should continue to deliver tangible improvements in the way library system vendors provide solutions and services to their customers.

The American Library Association (ALA) is saddened by the tragic loss of life and widespread damage to homes and communities by Hurricane Katrina, ... Libraries are an indispensable part of their communities, providing support and resources for everyone. Dozens of libraries in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama need our assistance so they, in turn, can meet the many needs of their communities.

The architect was good at little details to make the library not look like a warehouse.

virtual library that would be brought to you by different search systems.

Virtually all of the atoms in our bodies and in the Earth were in interstellar grains - stardust grains - before the solar system formed. We're using this comet as a library that picked up records of the formation of our solar system, and has been storing them far from the sun at very low temperatures for four and a half billion years.

The ability to create a library with more than a million different sensors is pretty remarkable.

I really enjoy going to a library and spending the day doing research - to me that is the most pleasurable part of writing the science book.

We focus on their early lives together. We're the only place that focuses on both the Clintons instead of just President Clinton, which is what hope is focused on and the presidential library is focused on.

We have a feeling those interested in tennis and general recreational needs or the needs of the library will come out and vote. A lot of people who are interested in the quality of life here in Auburn are very interested in this vote.

We are observing a definite trend of hundreds of terabytes of tape library being replaced with disk, ... These companies were permanently replacing, not augmenting tape.

When I took the bar I spent 7 1/2 weeks studying in the library every day before that.

We went to the library a lot, and I let them just read whatever they liked. On Sundays they went to Barnes & Noble to read new books. Now, it's their favorite place.

We have to raise the money and then turn over the library to the federal government,

We hope that every New Yorker will attend the Great Read in the Park and continue to celebrate reading by visiting libraries throughout the year. New York City is fortunate to have great libraries that make it their mission to put books and information into the hands of New Yorkers and users from around the world. We at the New York Public Library are particularly thrilled that the Great Read is being held in Bryant Park, our most beautiful backyard.

We have a huge library and that's a lot of what we lost. The good news is we don't owe anything on any of it.

[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.

We have roots here,Homer. We have friends and library cards Barts lawyer is here

The reality is that recidivism rates are low - which runs in the face of the notion of the super-predator that these laws are aimed at getting. But do people know that? Do people know that if they were to go to the library and look up the recidivism rates for these offenders, the highest they would see is somewhere in the teens?

A reader's tastes are peculiar. Choosing books to read is like making your way down a remote and winding path. Your stops on that path are always idiosyncratic. One book leads to another and another the way one thought leads to another and another. My type of reader is the sort who burrows through the stacks in the bookstore or the library (or the Web site — stacks are stacks), yielding to impulse and instinct.

Yesterday it sounded like a library here. We did decent business, but it was spotty. You'd do a chunky trade, and then nothing for two hours.