Library Quotes
A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.
We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.
Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.
My library is an archive of longings.
I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.
Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.
There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.
At a given instant everything the surgeon knows suddenly becomes important to the solution of the problem. You can't do it an hour later, or tomorrow. Nor can you go to the library and look it up.
I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places.
... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.
Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.
If it is right that schools should be maintained by the whole community for the well-being of the whole, it is right also that libraries should be so maintained.
Words fascinate me. They always have. For me, browsing in a dictionary is like being turned loose in a bank.
I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.
A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.
I admit that I haven't read everything in my library, but I feel smarter just walking in it!
I was the kid who read a lot and who was academic, and who was more of an indoor person than an outdoor person. I would win the summer reading contest at the library.
Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.
Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the reader through its categories and its order.
Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
How did writing come to me? Like bird’s down on my windowpane, in winter. Just then there rose in the heart a struggle of firebrands, which has, still now, not ended.
With a public library card in your hand, you have access to the Internet and a world of opportunities.
What is more important in a library than anything else-than everything else-is the fact that it exists.
If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.
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In seventh grade...I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.
I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them.
My childhood library was small enough not to be intimidating. And yet I felt the whole world was contained in those two rooms. I could walk any aisle and smell wisdom.
The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart of our democracy.
Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there's always a library.
Memory, that library of the soul from which I will draw knowledge and experience for the rest of my life.
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
In the library I discovered that you could learn by following your nose. And I learned that a book was as close to a living thing as you could get without being one.
