Library Quotes

I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library.

I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of the house and hide from the children.

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.

We never had books in the house. Not any book in our house. Not a Bible, not anything. So, I would go the library from a very young age and get the books out.

...we are all a volume on the shelf of the... library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands.

The librarians know the secrets, not the historians

What people actually refer to as research is really just Googling. I already have a complicated relationship with research. It used to be going to the library and looking up archival photos, etc.

They all start competing against Lincoln as the greatest president. And the [library] building becomes the symbol, the memorial to that dream.

I have no internet savvy whatsoever, but I love researching things. The Internet is my library... beyond that, I'm completely intimidated by it.

I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.

Popular magazines multiply while the library shelves remain undisturbed.

I cannot overstate the power of libraries in my life.

library is a beautiful old thing

My office in New York is overflowing with all kinds of cookbooks, and in New Orleans we have a huge culinary library. So yeah, I guess I'm a little bit obsessed.

A library is a platform upon which we catch trains to Every Where and Any Place, Another Time and Across Space. All aboard!

So I spend a lot of time at the library. That doesn't mean I'm a massive nerd!

Research is always a very necessary part of my process because all of my books to this point have been historical. Time spent in the library adds to one's wealth as a writer or artist.

Libraries can be of indispensable service in lifting the dead weight of poverty and ignorance.

I guess in my own egotistical way I like to create my own library of Batman books that doesn't run contrary to a single thing that has been published before, but it also stands on its own.

It may not seem like much, but think of the consequences. One overdue library book today, the collapse of the universe by the end of the week.

I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would send us a parcel of books by train.

Let me tell you this, if I had wanted to have a library of audio and videotapes of Bill Clinton, I could have had that. And after I was accused of being a liar, I wished that I had of.

Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age.

Mathematicians do not write for the circulating library.

Books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb!

Names are hard. I have a library of What to Name Your Baby books, and I’m always picking up new books, and books of baby names from other countries. I like cool-sounding names.

I've been cataloguing samples for years, I have this massive library. Songs come out everyday so it's never ending.

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

At one point I took a copy of Berkeley's Principles from my father's library. That was the first philosophy book I read. I found it fascinating and wanted to read more philosophy.

I went to Europe to live in 1961. I'd never have written Julian if it hadn't been for the sequestered life that I led in Rome and the classical library at the America Academy.

I hate requests. They make me feel unhappy. It's like when I take a book out of the library. As soon as I start to read it, all I can think about is when I'll finish it.

I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge.

I use my awards as doorsteps. Others are in the office or in little cubbyholes in our library – they go between the books, because they actually look like arty pieces

The Library is a wilderness of books.

What are the libraries of science but files of newspapers?

I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself.

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.

When in doubt, go to the library.

In a recent fire Bob Dole's library burned down. Both books were lost. And he hadn't even finished coloring one of them.

Libraries and demons," she muttered. "What is the attraction?

I heard this expression once: Each time someone dies, a library burns. I'm watching it burn right to the ground.

Each time someone dies, a library burns.

You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library. She pointed to the shelf opposite. Over there was Catch-22, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe.

Yesterday all five living presidents gathered for the opening of the George W. Bush presidential library in Dallas. Well, six living presidents if you count Hillary in 2016.

Libraries help you to dream!

With enough libraries, all content is free.

Nikki Giovanni! I got a book of hers from the library, and there was this woman who could paint me on paper with words - my whole little experience. I thought it was wonderful.

Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time.

If you can't find an answer at the mall or the library, what does that say about the world?