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Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.

We're absolutely thrilled to be collaborating with the community libraries in this way and hope to continue the program as long as there is a need. Jessica has graduated and left the area, but I am indebted to my new graduate assistant, Sally Quiroz, who has been helping manage the program (and teaching most of the Spanish classes), and the librarians and graduate students in library science who volunteer their time to help teach the classes.

First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library.

We developed a team to select a board and took it to the commissioners and that's how the library (at its current location) got started.

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library..

Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers.

You could tell from the books whether a library was meant for show or not. Books that were used had an open, interested feel to them, even if closed and neatly lined up on a shelf in strict order with their fellows. You felt as though the book took as much interest in you as you did in it and was willing to help when you reached for it.

I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.

Each time someone dies, a library burns.

I heard this expression once: Each time someone dies, a library burns. I'm watching it burn right to the ground.

We have a really excellent collection. I've been told that we have the best Spanish language collection of any library in the state. But that was a couple of years ago and some have probably caught up with us.

We're happy to take monies to build this library in whatever form.

We're here to make the library easy to use.

What is more important in a library than anything else-than everything else-is the fact that it exists.

AT first Raoden stayed away from the library, because it reminded him of her. Then he found himself drawn back to it—because it reminded him of her.

The opportunity before all of us is living up to the dream of the Library of Alexandria and then taking it a step further - universal access to all knowledge. Interestingly, it is now technically doable

..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.

Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.

Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.

I don't really collect the mementos. I do steal books off of sets. If there's a library on the set, you can bet that I'll steal away with a book or two.

Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence.

The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library.

The library was one enormous room, with long, high metal shelves and the perfect quiet that libraries provide for anyone looking for an answer.

I can't imagine why you would want to take your child to see what the career of a writer is like, because it mostly consists of sitting in a room typing, or going to the library and looking something up. Those are not exciting things to watch.

With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.

Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers.

One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'.

The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.

Everything. A letter may be coded, and a word may be coded. A theatrical performance may be coded, and a sonnet may be coded, and there are times when it seems the entire world is in code. Some believe that the world can be decoded by performing research in a library. Others believe that the world can be decoded by reading a newspaper. In my case, the only thing that made sense of the world was you, and without you the world will seem as garbled and tragic as a malfunctioning typewrit9.

When trouble strikes, head to the library. You will either be able to solve the problem, or simply have something to read as the world crashes down around you.

Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.

Your library is your paradise.

A library is a place full of mouth-watering food for thought.

Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.

It doesn't matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serve a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.

It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.

You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.

The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.

Library books were, I suddenly realized, promiscuous, ready to lie down in the arms of anyone who asked. Not like bookstore books, which married their purchasers, or were brokered for marriages to others.

...we are all a volume on the shelf of the... library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands.

You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.

I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.

...I spent many, many hours in...libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.

Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.

We are going to ask the receiver to take ownership of the music library and auction it off.

We're excited about offering our massive online video library to NewsGator and supplying its end-users with another avenue to watch compelling video in an online and on-demand setting, ... Partnering with NewsGator and its advanced RSS aggregation product will undoubtedly help online video's popularity continue its explosive growth.

We are acquiring a company with a strong distribution infrastructure, a valuable library and a gifted, experienced and highly entrepreneurial senior management team,

We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories.

We would like to at some point in time. If the city is able to find some land, it has been planned for somewhere in the area of the library and public safety building.

Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural.

There was an extensive collection of cookbooks in the well-stocked library, and he took to pouring over these in the evenings.

We are merely cleaning out the WUSC library that is packed full, creating more space for new music and raising money for a good cause,

Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.

Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside? At the library I couldn’t help but notice which patrons checked out the same books. They appeared to have nothing in common, but who could tell what a person was truly made of? The unknown, the riddle, the deepest truth. I noticed them all: the ones who’d lost their way, the ones who’d lived their lives in ashes, the ones who had to prove themselves, the ones who, like me, had lost the ability to feel.

A good library can provide the furniture of our minds and the threads from which we weave our dreams.

I'd have opened a bloody library if I'd wanted to be quiet.

I cannot imagine the type of sinister fiend who would be against the library. A library essentially says, 'Look, here is some free information that will enrich your life. Read it on your own time. I trust that you will bring it back when you are finished.' It might be the most civilized, forward-thinking institution in America. Perhaps the only one, in fact.

The richest minds need not large libraries.

The library is every child's lighthouse. It is every person's sanctuary. It is every town and county's fortress in the face of ignorance, intrusion and bad behavior.

If it is right that schools should be maintained by the whole community for the well-being of the whole, it is right also that libraries should be so maintained.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

You can read books without ever stepping into a library; and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple.

A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.

They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine galore. I picture it as a great doorway to learning...rather than one great dull answer to all our questions

they should let some people into the library by prescription only

Libraries are the pride of the city.

It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious completely unrelated to the rest of the library, yet which, upon closer inspection, reveals a good deal about its owner.

A library is a hospital for the mind.” - Anonymous

Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.

Every death is like the burning of a library.

I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground.

Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.

On my first visit to the public library, I was like a kid at a candy store where all the candy was free. I gorged myself until my tummy ached.

In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can't be found on a shelf in the public library.

A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there in a book, you may have your question answered

In one sphere above all others, Anne Boleyn still had the power to influence him, and that was in the case of church reform. Anne was a passionate and sincere evangelical, the owner of a library of controversial reformist literature, and she was sympathetic to radical and even Lutheran ideas.

America, why are your libraries full of tears?

I have no internet savvy whatsoever, but I love researching things. The Internet is my library... beyond that, I'm completely intimidated by it.

I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries.

What people actually refer to as research is really just Googling. I already have a complicated relationship with research. It used to be going to the library and looking up archival photos, etc.

Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.

The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.

A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by demanding completion of sorts.

It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed.

Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to make it all the more mine.

During the day, the library is a realm of order.

Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.

I had a library of maybe 1,000 books in my room in Buenos Aires. I did have the sense that everything there was organised in the right way. You'll probably think I needed serious psychiatric treatment, but there were times when I would not buy a book because I knew it wouldn't fit one of the categories into which I had divided the library.

Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.

Existing libraries, in their very being, seem to question the authority of those in power.

Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen.

If the Library of Alexandria was the emblem of our ambition of omniscience, the Web is the emblem of our ambition of omnipresence; the library that contained everything has become the library that contains anything.

If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.

We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries full of books we would like to possess, even if they are well beyond our reacher, because we enjoy dreaming up a library that reflects every one of our interests and every one of our foibles--a library that, in its variety and complexity, fully reflects the reader we are.

Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the reader through its categories and its order.