Library Quotes

Some people say I have issues. I say those people need to expand their horizons because I don't have issues, I have the Library of Congress

You can take the girl out of the library, but you can’t take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of the girl.

We live in the country, and I have a huge library there. When we go to London for the winter I never know which books to take. I never know what I am going to need. Thats the only disadvantage.

Whoever first thought of imposing a library fine was indeed intelligent.

I went to the library as soon as I could walk. So the training came from reading all kinds of people, from fairy tales and later on to - I don't know why - Schweitz's "Life of Christ."

Read books. They are good for us.

I think the New York Public Library is so, so amazing. It's literally the coolest place - It's good shelter from the sun and it's the most beautiful building. It's really, really fun.

My stepfather introduced me to The London Library when I was about 18; the clientele has definitely changed since then, but it is still a wonderful oasis in the middle of London.

For me, closing libraries is the equivalent of eating your seed corn to save a little money.

He would go somewhere no one knew him, and he would sit in a library all day and read books and listen to people breathing.

Libraries really are the gates to the future.

The function of a great library is to store obscure books.

I like shelves full of books in a library, but if all books become electronic, the task of big research libraries remains the same - keep what's published in the form in which it appeared.

Trinity Park lies directly across from the library, Trinity Church rising like a midieval thought amidst the glass and steel towers.

Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.

You can go into the Library of Congress and find information on just about anything, but that doesn't do you much good unless you know what you are looking for.

Epics are never written about libraries. They exist on whim; it depends on if the conquering army likes to read.

You're always in the kitchen," Alianora said when she poked her head through the door a moment later. "Or the library. Don't you ever do anything but cook and read?

I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.

Some folklorists just collected dead bones from one graveyard, only to bury them in another, their library.

Information is the manager's main tool, indeed the manager's capital, and it is he who must decide what information he needs and how to use it.

Much have I travelled in the realms of gold for which I thank the Paddington and Westminster Public Libraries.

[General James Mattis] a very talented individual. He's - has a personal library of about 10,000 books and he's read most of them on military history and strategy and so forth.

Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.

We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of #‎ libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.

There were many hours when I never quite know how I'd gotten there or why I stayed.

If any of my plays outlive me or get on library book shelves and somehow stay read, all of a sudden it's a testament to "that's part of our culture, that's part of our history."

This is why I can't be with Levi. Because I'm the kind of girl who fantasizes about being trapped in a library overnight-and Levi can't even read.

A library is all the university you will ever need.

You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.

The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.

But with the library, it's like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there's so much to look at and read.

No use going to class unless you go to the library.

It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.

... bums on the outside, libraries inside.

What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read?

A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.

Librarians lend people books from the library. The best librarians are children's book librarians.

Oh God. Why, oh why, did I have to be the one to deliver this news? Why couldn’t I be locked away in my room or the library doing something enjoyable, like homework?

This is a great idea,” said Trey. “You kids should totaly go see that play. Make a whole day of it. Grab some dinner and hang out at the library or whatever it is you do for fun.

One day she's throwing a book at me. The next, we're making out behind the library.

Library Science is the key to all science, just as mathematics is its language - and civilization will rise or fall, depending on how well librarians do their jobs.

It's important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library.

My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.

I am a bookworm. For play, I bury myself in the corners of libraries and read.

Truly I say to you, a single number has more genuine and permanent value than an expensive library full of hypotheses.

A Library goes on as far as thought can reach.

I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out of books to read you can always read Shakespeare.

I have spent a reasonable percentage of my life in libraries - I like the hush.

We can Fire a missile across the world with pinpoint accuracy, but we trouble keeping a date with our children to go to the library.