Library Quotes

Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.

The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.

Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.

Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy.

At the end of it all, it's my little movie library, and you see aspects of me through that.

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.

The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.

How we use the knowledge we gain determines our progress on earth, in space or on the moon. Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well.

Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours.

Oh, I get lucky a lot. I get lucky at four in the morning in the law library.

I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that?

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college.

Over the door of the library in Thebes is the inscription "Medicine for the soul.

A School Library is Like the Bat Cave: it's a safe fortress in a chaotic world, a source of knowledge and the lair of a superhero.

I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.

Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.

Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom

School libraries are the foundations of our culture – not luxuries.

Access to public libraries also affects how much children read.

The best place to find things: the public library.

A couple of months in the laboratory can frequently save a couple of hours in the library.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

The world is quiet here.

I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.

If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.

But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.

Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship.

Call me a schoolmarm, but few things make me angrier than people not taking good care of library materials.

After years and years of accumulating papers, I keep feeling that I should give them to the library or something because they are beginning to overwhelm me.

It's strange, isn't it. You stand in the middle of a library and go aaaaagghhhh' and everyone just stares at you. But you do the same thing on an aeroplane, and everyone joins in.

A library takes the gift of reading one step further by offering personalized learning opportunities second to none, a powerful antidote to the isolation of the Web.

A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

If you like your remote messaging fat, dumb, and interoperable, you could also look into the SOAP libraries distributed with Ruby.

The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again.

As a child, a library card takes you to exotic, faraway places. When you're grown up, a credit card does it.

Accessible local libraries are vital to communities and to children.

If you get down about the state of American culture, just remember there are still more public libraries in this country than there are McDonalds.

The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants.

I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't look like a bunch of guys who, you know, should be in a library studying for their finals.

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.

How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars.

Don't forget to support your public library.

Libraries are the torch of the world, illuminating the path when it feels too dark to see. We mustn't allow that torch to be extinguished.

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

I used to go to the library all the time when I was kid. As a teenager, I got a book on how to write jokes at the library, and that, in turn, launched my comedy career.

I just have this feeling that if it weren't for the Gloversville Free Library that I probably would not be a writer.

Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful.

A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival.