Library Quotations | Page 9

With all the things I know, one could write a book... Although, one might also say that, considering all that I don’t know, one could create a library.

I don't write at the library, because I smoke when I work or would like the possibility of a smoke. Also, I need to be at my own desk.

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.

I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.

Places of incredible glamour, possibility, power, excitement and pleasure. Love your libraries!

A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation.

You'll never go to the library and find a book on how to fail, because we all do it.

Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!

A library should be like a pair of open arms.

As a child, a library card takes you to exotic, faraway places. When you're grown up, a credit card does it.

Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends

A library is a gateway to others' minds, hearts, and lives.

I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library in Adams, Mass., where nothing seemed to change.

If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they.

Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those immense libraries...and never pass a waking hour without a book before me.

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

Call me a schoolmarm, but few things make me angrier than people not taking good care of library materials.

I have a couple of thousand books in my personal library. Choosing a favorite is next to impossible. But I do love the written word.

It's strange, isn't it. You stand in the middle of a library and go aaaaagghhhh' and everyone just stares at you. But you do the same thing on an aeroplane, and everyone joins in.

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".

E-books are impervious to analogy.

Are you in a library or what?! (on the crowd being quiet)

Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.

A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.

invaders always destroy libraries.

All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.

The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants.

A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.

Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.

I just have this feeling that if it weren't for the Gloversville Free Library that I probably would not be a writer.

One man with a genuine experience with God is worth more than a library full of arguments.

To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.

One day she's throwing a book at me. The next, we're making out behind the library.

Libraries are my passion in life. Before I became mayor (of Los Angeles), I used to sneak out here during lunchtime...and I'd go to a corner and take a book-any book almost-and read it for a while, and then feel rejuvenated.

I have spent a reasonable percentage of my life in libraries - I like the hush.

Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom

A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles.

Libraries can take the place of God.

In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on the cold island so far from everything else, I lived among strangers and birds.

The battle with Men Who Explain Things has trampled down many women — of my generation, of the up-and-coming generation we need so badly, here and in Pakistan and Bolivia and Java, not to speak of the countless women who came before me and were not allowed into the laboratory, or the library, or the conversation, or the revolution, or even the category called human.

I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of life.

If you cut funding to libraries, you cut the lifeblood of our communities.

Oh God. Why, oh why, did I have to be the one to deliver this news? Why couldn’t I be locked away in my room or the library doing something enjoyable, like homework?

We are digital archives of the African Pliocene, even of Devonian seas; walking repositories of wisdom out of the old days. You could spend a lifetime reading in this ancient library and die unsated by the wonder of it.

A library is also a place where love begins.

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.

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

The library is not only a diary of the human race, but marks an act of faith in the continuity of humanity.

Libraries and museums are the DNA of our culture.

The library is our house of intellect, our transcendental university, with one exception: no one graduates from a library. No one possibly can, and no one should.

The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart of our democracy.

What can I say? Librarians rule.

More people should use their library.

As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public libraries and stamp dates in books.

A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.

Every library is an arsenal.

The point of a library's existence is not persuasion or evangelism, but knowledge. It is irrelevant to the good library whether, as an institution, it shares or promotes your core values or mine, or the Attorney General's or Saddam Hussein's. The library is always an instrument of choice, and the choice is always yours, not your elected or designated leaders.

A Library goes on as far as thought can reach.

Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.

I had a mother who walked to the library with me, and you can't walk to a lot of libraries in San Antonio because - guess what? - there are no sidewalks, except in the neighborhoods. And they're across big boulevards, and it's so hot, you can't even walk to the corner. So things like that affect how children can get to libraries. So there are a lot of things involved.

In my work a good library is essential. It enables me to learn the background and previous discussions of the various issues I am called upon to decide. It provides the stability and continuity for the rule of law.

Truly I say to you, a single number has more genuine and permanent value than an expensive library full of hypotheses.

Your library teacher would say, "What happens to a generation that doesn't read the Classics?" Me, I'm not your library teacher. But I have some of the same questions and concerns, you know?

I am a bookworm. For play, I bury myself in the corners of libraries and read.

I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing.

Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you have a library and a good one. A working library, a living library; a library where nothing is chained down and nothing is locked up; a library where the songs of the singers rise naturally from the lives of the livers.

To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries.

I've never been a collector - just a consumer - and these days unless a book is signed to me by another author, I don't normally have any qualms about passing it to a friend or donating it to the library.

The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.

Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.

He that revels in a well-chosen library has inumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavor.

The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity.

No libraries, no progress.

Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.

You're a library of me.

If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks.

Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than all the libraries in it.

There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science in it. If we pass ""no day without a line""-visit no place without the company of a book-we may with ease fill libraries or empty them of their contents. The more we do, the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

There are persons who are never easy unless they are putting your books and papers in order--that is, according to their notions of the matter--and hide things lest they should be lost, where neither the owner nor anybody else can find them. This is a sort of magpie faculty. If anything is left where you want it, it is called litter. There is a pedantry in housewifery, as well as in the gravest concerns. Abraham Tucker complained that whenever his maid servant had been in his library, he could not see comfortably to work again for several days.

Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?

You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you don’t open them.

Above all I commend the study of Christ. Let Him be your library.

Library: A place where the dead lie.

Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me,From mine own library with volumes thatI prize above my dukedom.

Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries.

Eratosthenes was the director of the great library of Alexandria, the Centre of science and learning in the ancient world. Aristotle had argued that humanity was divided into Greeks and everybody else, whom he called barbarians and that the Greeks should keep themselves racially pure. He thought it was fitting for the Greeks to enslave other peoples. But Erathosthenes criticized Aristotle for his blind chauvinism, he believed there was good and bad in every nation.

We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library

If you have a question about anything, the answer can be found in a book somewhere in the library.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.

Don't forget to support your public library.

The public library is more than a repository of books. It's a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives.

For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.

My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them

Don't join the book burners!

Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!

The greatest knowledge a person can possess is the address of the local library.