Library Quotations | Page 7

I saw you in the library. With—” “ Colonel Mustard?

We all love to hear a good story. We save our stories in books. We save our books in libraries. Libraries are the storyhouses full of all those stories and secrets.

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and they'd go home.

Fame is fickle. If the media turn against me, I will just have more time in the library. Not bad as a fate.

Libraries...house our dreams.

You can go into the Library of Congress and find information on just about anything, but that doesn't do you much good unless you know what you are looking for.

...bookstores, libraries... they're the closest thing I have to a church.

The public library is the great equaliser.

I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users.

A library is a feast to which we are all invited.

The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired.

You can take the girl out of the library, but you can’t take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of the girl.

When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.

Mathematicians do not write for the circulating library.

I saw my ex-husband in the street. I was sitting on the steps of the new library. Hello, my life, I said. We had once been married for twenty-seven years, so I felt justified. He said, What? What life? No life of mine.

What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, I suppose. Browsing through someone’s library is like peeking into their DNA.

I have my library separate from the family home, and every room is a different genre. The only room that I can guarantee I've read everything is the horror room.

Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.

When we build a public library, we don't have to pay to get in, but when we build a stadium, we have to pay the owner every time we go to a game.

Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries.

The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite of myself, I see ahead…

It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to hold the sweetened library paste that passes for gravy.

If you want to become a biologist, it doesn't help to go into the Harvard biology library and all the information is there for you. You have to know what to look for and the internet is the same, just magnified.

It stinks of trains and that chili with the chocolate in it. Ooooh, books!" he exclaimed suddenly, making a beeline for the small library. (Al)

I don't think that there has been a film that I've done that hasn't been influenced by libraries and archives.

Support your libraries... or else!

Some cleric putting a match to her. /Neither of them looks happy about it. /Once lit, she'll burn like a book, /like a book that was ever finished, /like a locked-up library.

Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing.

He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin, vous avez tout ce qu'il vous faut.

I have lectured at Town Hall N.Y., The Library of Congress, Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Wellesley, Columbia, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana State University, Colorado, Stanford, and scores of other places.

A library is a path to the future--find yours there.

The first thing my family did when we moved was join the local church. The second was to go to the library and get library cards.

It's because of libraries that books like mine get recommended to book clubs and avid readers, who in turn pass them onto others looking to be whisked away from the world for a little while...and perhaps to learn a bit about themselves in the process.

Her library filled her bookshelves and then overflowed into waist-high stacks of books everywhere, piled haphazardly against the walls. If just one of them moved... the domino effect could engulf the three of us in an asphyxiating mass of literature.

My dream writing room would be the Imperial Library in Vienna.

Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons?

Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.

In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.

When we say we can pull resources away from libraries, from culture, from those parts of the education system that are not about utility, what we are really saying is that the life of the mind is unnecessary.

I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written some day, and it's best to be ahead of the queue.

With enough libraries, all content is free.

The library takes me away from my everyday life and allows me to see other places and learn to understand other people unlike myself.

He had been so busy getting away from the library, he hadn't paid attention to where he was going.

Oh, of course," said Ron, clapping a hand to his forehead. "I forgot we'll be hunting down Voldemort in a mobile library.

Because that's what Hermione does,' said Ron, shrugging. 'When in doubt, go to the library.

When in doubt, go to the library.

Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on living on the moon for the rest of my life.

I taught myself more in the library than school taught me.

No use going to class unless you go to the library.

I never went to college, so I went to the library.

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.

The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.

You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.

There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.

[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.

Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library.

Without the library, you have no civilization.

What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read?

It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.

A library is all the university you will ever need.

You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature. Then, you can pick the one thing you love most and write about it.

... bums on the outside, libraries inside.

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.

Spies go to bars for the same reason people go to libraries: full of information if you know where to ask.

I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.

We pore through libraries, dissecting the classics" Henry Sturges- vampire

The librarian spoke in a reverential whisper. Corliss knew she'd misjudged this passionate woman. Maybe she dressed poorly, but she was probably great in bed, certainly believed in God and goodness, and kept an illicit collection of overdue library books on her shelves.

Nobody recognizes that a bookstore or library can also be a drowning polar bear. And in this country [US], magazines, newspapers, and bookstores are drowning polar bears. And if people can't see that or don't want to talk about it, I don't understand them at all.

A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.

The Internet is a big boon to academic research. Gone are the days spent in dusty library stacks digging for journal articles. Many articles are available free to the public in open-access journal or as preprints on the authors' website.

There were many hours when I never quite know how I'd gotten there or why I stayed.

It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd.

Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry on Hungarian poetry.

Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.

I have a huge music library and deliberately choose the piece of music to match the piece I'm writing. So, every book I write has its own "soundtrack."

The function of a great library is to store obscure books.

Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.

In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding; the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits.

Questioners sooner or later end up in a library... And answers are dangerous; they kill your wonder.

Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning. Questioners sooner or later end up in a library. Questioners sooner or later end up with scriptures, because scriptures are full of answers. And answers are dangerous, they kill your wonder.

There is humanist enterprise of the book, and amongst that there are many, many stories. And that is why at the end, when he says that the stories are so illuminating that they must be engraved and encased in gold and put in the palace library, the people who compile the book are telling us that this is a collection of human wisdom.

A library is an adjustable wrench for opening the head.

Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all.

It is like having a book out from the library. It is like constantly having a book out from the library.

Our libraries are not cloisters for an elite. They are for the people, and if they are not used, the fault belongs to those who do not take advantage of their wealth.

I spent my life in the library reading books.

It's partly that I'm an extrovert and that I like being with people. If you shut me up in a library with nothing else around for weeks on end, I'd go mad! I have to sort of go out...

Umberto Eco is the owner of a large personal library of almost 30,000 books that he has not read. [To him] read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

At the end of it all, it's my little movie library, and you see aspects of me through that.

If peace had a smell,it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books.

Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters.

If you do not throw in a few promises of better things to come, gloomy one, I am going to take you back to the library.

Those who declared librarians obsolete when the Internet rage first appeared are now red-faced. We need them more than ever. The Internet is full of 'stuff' but its value and readability is often questionable. 'Stuff' doesn't give you a competitive edge, high-quality related information does.

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.

Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism.

If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.

Libraries really are the gates to the future.

For me, closing libraries is the equivalent of eating your seed corn to save a little money.

Nothing is more impotent than an unread library.