Library Quotes
Art shouldn't be locked away in galleries and libraries and books. Art should be for everybody and not just art buffs, historians and so-called experts.
I'm focusing on the music, but I still got a cold library of books that I've either read or I plan on getting to.
The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.
Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.
Our libraries are not cloisters for an elite. They are for the people, and if they are not used, the fault belongs to those who do not take advantage of their wealth.
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink on canvas. I love going down to the library, the feel and smell of books.
Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave the student a barbarian.
The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
The Internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor.
New York's such a wonderful city. Although I was at the library today. The guy was very rude. I said, "I'd like a card." He says, "You have to prove you're a citizen of New York." So I stabbed him.
A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
I don't speak French, but I took it for five years growing up. So, if I were in a situation where I had to be, like, 'Excuse me, pineapple dog house red, what time is it library?' - no problem.
Thing is, I wasn't in the library, didn't study too much, didn't get the best grades, but honestly, I didn't party a lot either. I stayed in a lot.
In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.
Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don’t think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.
I spent all my time at school in the library. Bad teachers can teach you to learn on your own.
The library is every child's lighthouse. It is every person's sanctuary. It is every town and county's fortress in the face of ignorance, intrusion and bad behavior.
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.
For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.
Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.
A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully.
A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living? Visit your library today.
I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.
A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants.
No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.
The library (in the migrant community) I grew up in was my only link to the outside world.
With all the things I know, one could write a book... Although, one might also say that, considering all that I don’t know, one could create a library.
You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.
She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence.
A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.
Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence.
Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.
Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all.
I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.
Because that's what Hermione does,' said Ron, shrugging. 'When in doubt, go to the library.
He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse.