Library Quotes

What was it with people always trying to kill me in the library? Nickamedes so needed to put up warning signs. Danger: Working here could be hazardous to your health.

You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books.

If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library.

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.

...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.

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.

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

I have just committed the mortal sin of laughing in the Members' Library. No-one around here has done that for a while.

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.

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

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.

Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.

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

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.

You know you knit too much when ... You will check out a book from the library just because you heard that one of the characters knits.

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

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

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.

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

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

they should let some people into the library by prescription only

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

Please bury me in the library With a dozen long-stemmed proses

I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.

I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself.

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

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

People are living books. The real library of life is community.

In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession.

If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.

Nothing is more impotent than an unread library.

Joss's ears perked up. He loved libraries. Nowhere else in the world felt so safe and homey. Nowhere else smelled like books and dust and happy solitude quite like a library did.

Why can't I just Google it like everything else?! I hate you public library system!

Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind.

Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something. And your garden's your library.

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

I was so getting tired of fighting for my life in the library.

A big island of library, in the middle of an ocean, away from all the fools of the world, would this place not be a real paradise?

I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.

When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.

But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.

I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era.

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.

My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. I got what little educational foundation I got in the third-floor reading room, under the tutelage of a Coca-Cola sign.

The public library system of the United States is worth preserving.

I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four.

Boys like him didn't die; they got bronzed and installed outside public libraries.

Loaded with note cards for research papers that I was hopelessly behind on, I'd enter the Public Library only to end up wandering around lost, wasting the day.

I am a public library