Library Quotes

Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind.

I'm a nerd. I like to sit in the library. I don't like to sweat.

It's fun to just skim through piles of books in the stacks of a library.

Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.

I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.

To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.

My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read.

Yo, que me figuraba el Paraíso / Bajo la especie de una biblioteca. I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.

In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense.

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.

The librarian's mission should be, not like up to now, a mere handling of the book as an object, but rather a know how (mise au point) of the book as a vital function.

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.

If all you leave in the library is books that you think speak to everyone, what are you going to have? You'd have nothing.

That's my anxiety dream. I go to the library and all the books on my subject are out.

I want to have schools and libraries and other institutions named after me. I tell my daughter that all the time.

I smiled at her, but she was already lost in thought, looking around the library as if it held all the answers to all our problems.

Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.

I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users.

Libraries are where most of us really fall in love with books, where we can browse and choose on our own. Its really one of the first autonomous things we do, picking the books we want to read.

It stinks of trains and that chili with the chocolate in it. Ooooh, books!" he exclaimed suddenly, making a beeline for the small library. (Al)

The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul.

There is no access to contemporary poetry in the libraries.

When I was in my 20s, I was a bookworm - spent 12 hours of the day in the library. How I met George, I'll never know.

Books have always been to me like a kind of embalmed mind. The dead may be scattered, and who can find them, but their voices live in the library.

Oh. My. God. They were fighting. In the library. Over her.

Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being.

I took to the Bodleian Library as to a lover and ... would sit long hours in Bodley's arms, to emerge, blinking and dazed with the smell and feel of all those books.

God bless Interlibrary Loan. I pay a lot of library fines. In the case of 'A Single Shard,' I was using books that hadn't been checked out in 30 years, so I didn't feel too bad.

Yeats, you need ten years in the library, but I have need of ten years in the wilderness.

I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.

I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.

I steal things from people, characteristics, and I just stock them in my head like a library to use for characters in the future.

Libraries are fun, educational, and the biggest bargain on the face of the earth.

I've always loved reading fantasy. I used to pick out all the books in the library that had the little unicorn sticker on the side to show that they were fantasy.

If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin, vous avez tout ce qu'il vous faut.

Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing.

Some cleric putting a match to her. /Neither of them looks happy about it. /Once lit, she'll burn like a book, /like a book that was ever finished, /like a locked-up library.

Every time a shaman dies, it is as if a library burned down.

If you do not throw in a few promises of better things to come, gloomy one, I am going to take you back to the library.

The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame.

A library is an adjustable wrench for opening the head.

She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns there and of going out to a restaurant, alone, to eat.

A good library at home is a giant empire inside the house.

There must be every kind of books in your library. The most beautiful gardens are those with many different flowers, with all kinds of herbs and weeds!

You build a thousand castles, a thousand sanctuaries, you are nothing; you build a library, you are everything!

I spent my life in the library reading books.

The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.

Order and surprise: these are two intertwined elements that make for any great library or collection.

I went to the library and began to read some stuff on my own. My discovery of James Baldwin was life-changing. I read Go Tell It on the Mountain first, and that was hugely impactful.

I have a huge music library and deliberately choose the piece of music to match the piece I'm writing. So, every book I write has its own "soundtrack."