Library Quotes

Ordinary performers have giant TVs. Extraordinary performers have huge libraries.

If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen.

I'm spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years.

A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.

You'll never go to the library and find a book on how to fail, because we all do it.

My library card. Every hurdle I've faced, I have researched my way over at a library. I'm grateful for that part of the American spirit that believes every citizen should have access to books.

When I go to a premiere I like to borrow lovely clothes and shoes from designers. It's like the library: if you return them in good condition, you get to borrow more. I'm very lucky.

Your library teacher would say, "What happens to a generation that doesn't read the Classics?" Me, I'm not your library teacher. But I have some of the same questions and concerns, you know?

E-books are impervious to analogy.

A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.

We pore through libraries, dissecting the classics" Henry Sturges- vampire

Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.

[People in 1600s] didn't have many books. They would have been staggered by the personal libraries we have today, because books back then were incredibly expensive.

Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.

A library card is good to have, you can never have too much ID.

...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine.

As a kid, death seemed boring to me. As an adult, I think that it seems more like a waste of everything. Somebody once said every time a professor dies, a library burns.

A library is a fueling station for your mind.

invaders always destroy libraries.

Are you in a library or what?! (on the crowd being quiet)

My father was in the Army and we moved around a lot, and one of my favorite places was the library.

A library is a gateway to others' minds, hearts, and lives.

Go anywhere you wish, talk to everyone. Ask any questions; you will be given answers. When you want to learn, you will be taught. Use the library. Open any book.

You get all sorts of people in the library, and the librarian gets it all.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.

Storytelling is the oldest form of education.

Sometimes I just experiment quite a lot. I've always got my computer set up to record so I'll just record a sort of library of ideas [that] I'll either come back to or use as they stand.

In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our profound scholar must have consisted entirely of Latin books.

I have a couple of thousand books in my personal library. Choosing a favorite is next to impossible. But I do love the written word.

Because nearly all digital libraries are tied to bricks-and-mortar institutions, the funding base tends to be quite localized.

A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.

People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.

Usage tends to be global, while funding tends tobe local. When we allow it to happen, usage of a digital library is remarkably diverse and widespread.

Seduced her? Every time I turned round she was up a library ladder. In the end I gave in. That reminds me—I spotted something between her legs that made me think of you.

I don't write at the library, because I smoke when I work or would like the possibility of a smoke. Also, I need to be at my own desk.

Here's another piece of advice, only date people who have read a different set of books than you have read, it will save you lots of time in the library.

Libraries can take the place of God.

The library is our house of intellect, our transcendental university, with one exception: no one graduates from a library. No one possibly can, and no one should.

It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.

Shut not your doors to me proud libraries.

Reclaim your role as eco-role models and exemplars in your community. Change is happening rapidly. Let libraries continue to be at the center of it.

Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than all the libraries in it.

A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.

The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.

Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library.

You're a library of me.

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn." (1872)

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the

All that is necessary for a student is access to a library.