Library Quotes

Libraries are a consistent and major source of books for free reading.

There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.

Public libraries are the last vestige of public free space.

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

Bars are closed on Election Day so people won't vote under the influence. Why are libraries closed?

Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough.

Every death is like the burning of a library.

I have a sort of Christmas-morning sense of the library as a big box full of beautiful books.

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.

As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No ... eight days a week.

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?

To sit in a big library amongst books and students, that was pretty cool. It was a novel experience for me.

So I'm in the library, and I have keyboards out and my headphones out. Everybody's like, "Mike are you making beats right now?" and I'm like, "Yeah... sorry!"

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

No libraries, no progress.

Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters.

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

You can't flood the market with every TV show, every reality show, and dump your library into the market all at one time and not have some kind of game plan in terms of pricing.

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

I got kicked out in grade school because I staged a riot because I wanted more library time.

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.

The public library is the most dangerous place in town

I am unpacking my library. Yes I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild boredom of order.

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

There are so many items that are not in the copyright domain. And people might not realize the Library of Congress manages the copyright process for the nation.

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.

An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository.

Each time one of the medicine men dies, it's as if a library has burned down.

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.

Some men have only one book in them, others a library.

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

The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.

My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library.

Being in the library is so addictive for me that I really have to exercise self-control so I can get some writing done at home.

Freedom is a public library.

I have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over time.

In my library I have profitably and pleasantly dwelt among the shining lights, with which the learned, wise, and holy men of all ages have illuminated the world.

Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.

Will!" Charlotte threw up her hands. "Why didn't you say so?" "You know, the books on demon pox are in the library," Will said with an injured tone. "I wasn't preventing anyone from reading them

[T]he public library is where those without money, power, access, university affiliation, or advanced degrees can get information for free.

In my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in the present; with the book I am in the past.

One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library.

Here's my library, where I don't do a lot of reading but mostly play Angry Birds on the computer.

I do have a library of events I can talk about and I always expect to find a different point of view on it so even if I talk about the same event in the same town it's fresh.

Any man who would walk five miles through the snow, barefoot, just to return a library book so he could save three cents - that's my kind of guy.

I really hope that all librarians aren't like Gladys Morgan. Because I'd really like , at some point, to walk into a library and not be afraid for my life.

In my garden I spend my days; in my library I spend my nights.

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

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.