Library Quotes

In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.

It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.

Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.

My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

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.

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.

There's no better teacher for writing than reading... Get a library card. That's the best investment.

The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs.

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

Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unusual among his immediate family in that he was enormously cultured and had an incredible library.

Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read the same things.

The Web is cool, but the library is magic.

CLARE: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble.

A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.

Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest but who has the right information.

The library is my cathedral.

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.

I really enjoy going to a library and spending the day doing research - to me that is the most pleasurable part of writing the science book.

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.

The Bible is actually a library of books-some long, some short- written over hundreds of years by many authors. Behind each one, however, was [the] Author: the Spirit of God.

I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.

Books were not looked upon as things unobtainable due to economic circumstances or class status. My grandfather stole an entire set of Dicken's from the local library.

My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.

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.

I got into Kiss before I got into anybody. The first thing I heard was Detroit Rock City. I heard it in the school library, where I lived.

To take pride in a library kills it. Then, its motive power shifts over to the critical if admiring visitor, and apologies are necessary and acceptable and the fat is in the fire.

To make a library It takes two volumes And a fire. Two volumes and a fire, And interest. The interest alone will do If logs are few.

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

Of course, the guests were also staring because they know of my relationship with Camille, and are wondering what we might be doing here in the library... alone." He wiggled his eyebrows at Tessa.

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

I've got libraries in my blood.

I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.

I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries.

President Obama has decided that he wants his presidential library to be in Chicago, not Hawaii. Today Hawaii's governor said, 'Great, who's going to want to come to Hawaii now?'

And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.

It's nice to live in a country that has its priorities straight: the library's open three hours a week, and the House of Fist is 24/7.

The library is what keeps us a step ahead of the apes.

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

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

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.

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.

They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind.

Historians will not fail to note that a people who could spend $300 billion on defense refused to spend a tiny fraction of that total to keep their libraries open in the evening.

I spent more time at the library than anyone my age when I was a kid.

London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really.

Magic is used in espionage, all the time, for clandestine things. I've got a whole library from a gentleman who was hired by the CIA to create magic technology for the use of anti-terrorism.

I enjoy biographies and whatnot. I'm also a fan of presidential libraries. I've visited quite a few of them, especially the more modern ones.

Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.